Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 15:00:39 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What kind of SCSI controller is in a Compaq Proliant 3000? Message-ID: <199810072200.PAA02835@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Oct 1998 23:44:20 %2B0200." <26681.907796660@verdi.nethelp.no>
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> Just got my hands on a nice shiny new Compaq Proliant 3000 server (yes, > I know Compaqs are weird in some ways, but this is beyond my control). > I'd like to install FreeBSD on it, but the problem is that no SCSI disk > controller is detected (and thus no SCSI disks) by the 3.0 boot disk. > The standard Proliant 3000 config: > > http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/proliant3000/index.html > > mentions a dual channel wide-ultra SCSI-3 controller, and this is indeed > what the BIOS claims it has. > > I thought it might be an Adaptec (with a different PCI Chip ID). Will try > to have a look at the actual controller tomorrow. Meanwhile, does anybody > know kind of beast this SCSI controller is? No, but the device ID's will be printed if you boot with '-v', and that will give us an excellent start on working out what it is. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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