From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Dec 17 7:24:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from nautilus.shore.net (nautilus.shore.net [207.244.124.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4701D14FA6 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 07:24:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kylet@shore.net) Received: from shell3.shore.net [207.244.124.103] by nautilus.shore.net with esmtp (Exim) for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org id 11yzFK-0000AV-00; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:24:42 -0500 Received: from kylet by shell3.shore.net with local (Exim) id 11yzFK-0004Tw-00; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:24:42 -0500 Subject: FreeBSD 3.3 on Compaq 4500 w/ Smart RAID 2/E To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:24:42 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL37 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1084 Message-Id: From: Kyle Tucker Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have a Compaq 4500 which is EISA bus (no PCI) with a Smart RAID Array 2/E controller. From all my attempts and research I have come up with the followinq conclusions, perhaps all incorrect. :) - Any SCSI disks in the 4500 itself on the embedded controller can't use the NCR driver (ncr0) as it appears to be a PCI driver and 3.3 refused to load it from visual config as device ncr0 is not found. - According to an old post, I cannot load the OS directly onto the RAID array, that I must put the OS in a seperate disk and use the array for extra storage. I also could not get a custom kernel to recognize it without hard-coding the EISA slot number in ida.c as someone suggested and then the system hangs during the auto probe. So am I barking up the wrong tree here or should I be able to load the OS on either of these? If on the embedded controller, what driver do I need? - Kyle --------------------------------------------- kylet@shore.net http://www.shore.net/~kylet UNIX Sys Admin "Grandpa, what was NT?" --------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message