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Date:      Thu, 8 Oct 1998 02:18:23 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson)
Cc:        sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What kind of SCSI controller is in a Compaq Proliant 3000?
Message-ID:  <199810080218.TAA01141@usr08.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981007185625.A3740@emsphone.com> from "Dan Nelson" at Oct 7, 98 06:56:25 pm

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> > Just got my hands on a nice shiny new Compaq Proliant 3000 server (yes,
> > I know Compaqs are weird in some ways, but this is beyond my control).
> > I'd like to install FreeBSD on it, but the problem is that no SCSI disk
> > controller is detected (and thus no SCSI disks) by the 3.0 boot disk.
> > The standard Proliant 3000 config:
> > 
> > 	http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/proliant3000/index.html
> > 
> > mentions a dual channel wide-ultra SCSI-3 controller, and this is indeed
> > what the BIOS claims it has.
> 
> I believe all of the Compaq SCSI adaptors (except possible the RAID
> ones) are Symbios/NCR chipsets.  At least out Proliant 2500 is, and
> there is just one Compaq SCSI HAM driver for Netware, so it must cover
> all the Compaq cards.

If this is the RAID controller, a driver was written, but not
integrated into -current.  Check the list archives for "compaq RAID".


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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