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Date:      Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:08:21 -0500
From:      garver@vulcan.valkyrie.net
To:        Joe Garcia <jgarcia@gnncast.net>
Cc:        aic7xxx@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: aic-7880p netfinity 5500 m10
Message-ID:  <19990303140821.C6741@vulcan.valkyrie.net>
In-Reply-To: <001a01be659e$7a9c3bd0$2c42100a@Joe-Cool.staff.gnncast.net>; from Joe Garcia on Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 12:51:34PM -0500
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On Wed, Mar 03, 1999 at 12:51:34PM -0500, Joe Garcia wrote:
> Opps just noticed an typo, the chip set is AIC-7880P not AIC-7800P

I think the Netfinity uses the same chip as the ARO-1130 Raidport
card.  Dont't quote me on that, but if it is the case, the aic-7xxx
doesn't support it.  I think I saw Robert Brown explain in another
post that sequencer code is uploaded to the card at boot up.
In my trying to get the ARO-1130 Raidport to work, I was told
that this would kill any arrays.  For this reason, the driver
refuses to work with the ARO-1130.  As far as i can recall,
the chip on the ARO-1130 is the aic-7810 or the aic-7815.

BTW, the aic-7810 will be used in conjunction with an aic-7880,
so both chips should appear on the raid controller.

I was very interested to hear the IBM announcement that they would
support Linux on these boxes for this reason.

Later,
Jake Garver

> 
> Joe
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG]On
> > Behalf Of Joe Garcia
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 12:37 PM
> > To: Aic7xxx
> > Subject: FW: aic-7880p netfinity 5500 m10
> > 
> > 
> > I posted this on friday but nobody responded, so I am posing it again.
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joe Garcia [mailto:jgarcia@gnncast.net]
> > Sent: Friday, February 26, 1999 4:52 PM
> > To: aic7xxx@freebsd.org
> > Subject: aic-7880p netfinity 5500 m10
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 	IBM has been nice enough to give us one of their Netfinity 
> > 5500 m10 boxes.
> > This comes with an onboard RAID adapter based on the AIC-7800P chipset, I
> > have Redhat 5.2 and for the life of me I cannot get it to recognize this
> > card, and hence will not load linux.  IBM officially supports 
> > this box with
> > linux, it is just that they have no clue how to support it yet.  Does
> > anybody here have any suggestions as to what to do??
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
> > 
> > 
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