From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Apr 14 14:31:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from assurance.rstcorp.com (rstcorp2.daf.concentric.net [216.112.242.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1008A37B67A for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 14:31:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vshah@rstcorp.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by assurance.rstcorp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA23422; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:32:57 -0400 Received: from sandbox.rstcorp.com(10.1.30.2) by assurance.rstcorp.com via smap (V2.0) id xma023416; Fri, 14 Apr 00 20:32:28 GMT Received: from jabberwock.rstcorp.com (jabberwock.rstcorp.com [10.1.100.5]) by sandbox.rstcorp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA29325; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:23:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: by jabberwock.rstcorp.com (Postfix, from userid 93) id A2B845AED; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:29:59 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14583.36311.258358.695869@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:29:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Viren R.Shah" To: Ian Cartwright Cc: "FreeBSD Hardware (E-mail)" Subject: Re:Compaq EISA ida driver... In-Reply-To: <6D5097D4B56AD31190D50008C7B1579B6701BC@EXLAN5> References: <6D5097D4B56AD31190D50008C7B1579B6701BC@EXLAN5> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: "Viren R.Shah" X-Face: )~y+U*K:yzjz{q<5lzpI_SVef'U.])9g[C9`1N@]u3,MHY7f*l7C)[_NjM4y4K8$uIUh|\u (K&&HS6,M!61&GMTk'mqmB/Qg]]X}"?TzsFl]"2v!bl8']dma.:^IY^a[lbOI>U:b<~FyK3q-p{HmZ mn~g.`~BE!5{2D:}Yi+\_KkWe?XaHj9$ko1k8iKLYv5*_2c8"G=?Up[}hn+7RNM(bzBZ_wWk6!Pf&B ?3Tcm7M7B~W%K/I0aX3]*=jP?aM]H6HBPT`oLk+0n^_;N\2\%|Rhy;p}34Q.jEsM\qtnxcm;ag%Nq Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> "Ian" == Ian Cartwright writes: Ian> Hello all, I have been trying to persuade an old Compaq Proliant Ian> 2000 with an EISA SMART RAID controller to boot so I can install Ian> FreeBSD on it. I started with 4.0-RELEASE, and have moved on to Ian> 5.0-CURRENT in the hopes of getting the mfsroot boot disks to Ian> work. In a separate thread (one that got mangled, apparently) I Ian> described my woes. My question now is, would giving 3.4-STABLE Ian> or using an even older version of FreeBSD with the original ida Ian> driver written by Mark Dawson work? Apparently the version in Ian> >=4.0-RELEASE has a problem locking down the EISA resources for Ian> the SMART controllers... It might -- the only change I had to make was to hardcode in the port number used by the EISA RAID controller -- Mark Dawson's driver had problems correctly identifying it in my case (on 4.0-current from March 1999, not 3.4-STABLE). However, it looks like Matthew Dodd is getting closer to getting the driver working in out case, and you might want to consider waiting for that. Ian> Ian Cartwright Viren -- Viren R. Shah "Creeping featurism is a disease, fatal if not treated promptly" -- Don Norman in _The Design of Everyday Things_ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message