From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Jan 11 14:30:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from zmamail01.zma.compaq.com (zmamail01.zma.compaq.com [161.114.64.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79FB614E7D for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 14:30:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from michael.waite@compaq.com) Received: by zmamail01.zma.compaq.com (Postfix, from userid 12345) id 882173BF; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:30:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from exctay-gh01.tay.cpqcorp.net (exctay-gh01.tay.cpqcorp.net [16.103.129.42]) by zmamail01.zma.compaq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FC7060B; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:30:42 -0500 (EST) Received: by exctay-gh01.tay.cpqcorp.net with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:30:41 -0500 Message-ID: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA04906963ECB@mroexc2.tay.dec.com> From: "Waite, Michael" To: "'DILLIGAF@post.com'" , freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Installing on COMPAQ 1850/5000 with SMART2/2E Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:30:39 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well if it would help you can test it on my ProLiant 5500 running FreeBSD v3.4-STABLE http://www.testdrive.compaq.com -----Mike -----Original Message----- From: BOFH [mailto:BOFH@prolynx.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 5:20 PM To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Installing on COMPAQ 1850/5000 with SMART2/2E General question: After searching the FAQ's, HOWTO's, -scsi, -tech, -questions mail archives and finding http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~md/ida/ and http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ida/ I am still left with the problem: How do I (successfully) create a bootable kernel that supports the Compaq SMART2 RAID controller well enough to perform a new install? I've seen plenty of references to _having_ done this, with no particular pointers on _how_ to do this. I have tried several different variants of making the ida devices build, but unfortunately I'm in a bit of a Cache-22 in that I can't get a native implementation of the device files until I can get one of the Compaq's up and running. The kernels I've managed to build so far boot, see the NIC and FDD, but are still lost on the SCSI-RAID. I am using FreeBSD v3.4-STABLE on a DELL 2300, with the standard development options installed (gcc, perl, etc.). Any help in either creating this or pointers to the correct documentation will be appreciated. Thanks, - Ed To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message