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Date:      Wed, 7 May 2003 10:41:50 -0400
From:      "Charley" <bsd@agileemmy.com>
To:        james_mapson@museum.rain.com, Charley <bsd@agileemmy.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on an old Compaq
Message-ID:  <20030507144150.M83599@agileemmy.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030506155620.A20420@ns.museum.rain.com>
References:  <20030506173547.M36636@agileemmy.com> <20030506155620.A20420@ns.museum.rain.com>

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On Tue, 6 May 2003 15:56:20 -0700, James Long wrote
> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 01:35:47PM -0400, Charley wrote:
> > 
> > Is there something else that I need?
> 
> Unrelated to your symptoms, perhaps, but a copy of a Compaq 
> SmartStart CD appropriate for your vintage of server is useful,
>  especially if you have a Compaq RAID controller in the box.  The 
> SmartStart CD can configure your RAID and then (assuming its a Smart-
> 2-something or SmartArray 3200) FreeBSD should recognize the RAID 
> controller and logical drives as the ida device and disks idad0, 
> idad1, etc.


Any idea where I could obtain such a thing?  I had kinda come to the same 
conclusion in dealing with HP's web site, but I haven't been able to find a 
place to even order the proper cd.



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