From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 18 9:23:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boat.mail.pipex.net (our.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18D9437B42C for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 09:23:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 6664 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2000 16:23:42 -0000 Received: from mailhost.puck.pipex.net (HELO mailhost.uk.internal) (194.130.147.54) by our.mail.pipex.net with SMTP; 18 Sep 2000 16:23:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 18657 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2000 16:23:39 -0000 Received: from camgate2.cam.uk.internal (172.31.6.21) by mailhost.uk.internal with SMTP; 18 Sep 2000 16:23:39 -0000 Received: by camgate2.cam.uk.internal with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 17:22:52 +0100 Message-ID: From: Daniel Bye To: 'Jon Nathan' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: compaq smartarray raid controllers? Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 17:18:03 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18 Sep 200, Jon wrote: > does anyone know if compaq smartarray raid controllers work under > freebsd (4.1 i guess)? i thought they were based on the mylex dac960 > chip but i can't find info on compaq's site. > I am using 4.1 on a Compaq Proliant 1850 R with SmartArray Controller, version 2.21, rev 4.16 with no problems whatever. It was detected by the installer, and installed cleanly with no need to specify any special parameters. You will need to build the array first, using SmartStart, but you already know that! This is from dmesg: ida0: port 0x3000-0x30ff mem 0xb8000000-0xb fffffff,0xc6ffff00-0xc6ffffff irq 15 at device 0.0 on pci1 ida0: drives=1 firm_rev=4.16 idad0: on ida0 idad0: 34727MB (71122560 sectors), blocksize=512 HTH, Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message