From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 8 7:46:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.menzor.dk (menzor.org [195.249.147.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABF5037B552; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 07:46:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from morten@seeberg.dk) Received: from sos (fw.micon.dk [195.249.147.131]) by www.menzor.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA21579; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 17:06:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from morten@seeberg.dk) Message-ID: <014801bfa168$fc5e9170$d10ba8c0@sos> From: "Morten Seeberg" To: , , Subject: New info from Compaq regarding IDA RAID controllers Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 16:44:44 +0200 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 (Note: Every user of IDA controllers on FreeBSD please read :) ) Hi, I would have released this info 2 weeks ago, but my laptop with all my personal info and mails were stolen from me, and as you know, real men do do backup - until now! :) I had a talk with the Danish Compaq Storage representative, after complaining about the lack of support for configuring Smart-2 controllers in non-Compaq equipment. He told me that the reason for this is, that Compaq politics doesn´t allow for sale of Compaq RAID storage for use in non-Compaq systems. He also told me, that he was a firm believer that this would change within 6 months (according to things he heard internally), thereby solving our problem with configuring the controllers. Now as you will find on my website, older controller can be configured in non-Compaq systems (link below). Now I´ve been encouraging people to submit their systems to me, so that I can publish them on my website, and thereby show my Compaq friends that we really like their hardware :) Because of the loss of my laptop I´ve lost all mails from you guys running the hardware out there, before I had time to update the website. Please, if you run a FreeBSD system on a Compaq RAID controller, fill out the form on http://seeberg.dk/freebsd/idaraid I then promise that I will set the time off, that it takes to test 4.0 on my RAID controller, and update the website with all the new features implemented in BSD 4.0R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message