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Date:      Tue, 14 Mar 2000 17:30:37 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net>
Cc:        joeo@cracktown.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Compaq Integrated Raid Array
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003141729520.28645-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10003141644020.90738-100000@kronos.alcnet.com>

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On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Kelly Yancey wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 joeo@cracktown.com wrote:
> > I have some very short term access to a Compaq 8500.  The integrated raid
> > array is supported under linux via it's smart array driver.  I have a
> > feeling that it should just work with freesd's driver, but "scanpci" shows
> > it using a a vendor id of 0x1000 and a device id of 0x0010.  Where in a
> > 4.0 kernel do I stick these so it know's to probe it as an ida device?
> > 
> 
>   Try /sys/dev/ida/ida_pci.c. The device ID and vendor id are stored
> in the IDA_DEVICEID_SMART #define and currently the ida driver has it
> hardwired to 0xAE100E11. For quick & dirty hack (i.e. if you just want
> to know if the driver will work with your hardware), try changing the
> IDA_DEVICEID_SMART #define to 0x10000010.

Looking at the Linux driver I don't think its going to be that easy; they
have handling for the integrated array that our driver doesn't.

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