From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 16 9: 0:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.menzor.dk (themoonismadeofgreenchease.dk [195.249.147.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCAD914DDD; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 09:00:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ml@seeberg.dk) Received: from sos (fwuser@fw.merkantildata.dk [194.239.79.3]) by www.menzor.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA06719; Sun, 16 Jan 2000 18:02:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml@seeberg.dk) Message-ID: <018601bf6043$6b1f6c40$16280c0a@sos> Reply-To: "Morten Seeberg" From: "Morten Seeberg" To: "Mike Smith" , References: <200001150016.QAA02816@mass.cdrom.com> Subject: Compaq RAID controller never in the handbook? Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 18:02:05 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Compaq controllers are intended by Compaq to only be used in Compaq > servers. Under some circumstances you might get lucky otherwise, but as a > general rule you can forget using them in any other system. I´ve never had a non-Compaq system that wouldn´t accept my Smart2 controller. All you need to do is download the SP6263 from the compaq website, create 2 floppies, and then you can boot of these 2 floppies to configure the RAID controller. I tried contacting the freebsd-doc mailinglist, because I wanted to make some notes on how to use the Compaq equipment in Compaq servers and non Compaq servers, but noone answered my letters, so I guess its not interesting to get such an add-on to the faq or handbook. I would then explain how to install BSD onto the controller, how to configure the controller on non CPQ systems, and later try to make a package wheneven I managed to get the Array config utility to work under fx wine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message