Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 10:54:49 -0800 (PST) From: Ian Struble <ian@broken.net> To: jjbock@enteract.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: where's the compaq raid support in 3.3? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.991216104740.23637U-100000@disavowed.broken.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.991216123043.93086A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>
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I can give it to you in a nutshell. You need to compile a kernel with the ida device in it and copy that to your kern.flp boot floppy. Add the following to your copy of the GENERIC config and make the new kernel: # # Compaq Intelligent Disk Array Controller # controller ida0 at isa? bio irq ? vector idaintr disk id0 at ida0 drive 0 disk id1 at ida0 drive 1 disk id2 at ida0 drive 2 disk id3 at ida0 drive 3 # Warning: # This driver can be configured to steal the ide devsw[] entries # so the IDE driver must also be present. If this behaviour is used, # the system will be unable to get to IDE drives. This is to allow # systems to boot off the IDA array, while thinking they are booting off # an IDE drive. (The boot blocks only know about IDE and SCSI). # # To disable this behaviour, the following line should be used. # Do this is you wish to boot of a different device. #options IDA_CUCKOO_MODE=0 Stick your kern.flp floppy into the floppy drive, mount it, gzip the kernel you compile with the ida driver in it, copy the kernel.gz to the floopy. <perform sneaker net initialization operation w/ floppy disk> mount -t ufs /dev/fd0 /mnt gzip kernel cp kernel.gz /mnt umount /mnt That should do it. I can ellaborate more later if you still have problems. Good luck! Ian On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 jjbock@enteract.com wrote: > I've dug through the lists and doc and can't find anything so I'm making a > simple request: > > Can someone who has installed 3.3 on a Compaq box using a Smart 2x > controller please for the love of all thats holy write a faq or something > that covers from smartstart to finish? > > Why are they listed as supported but they aren't included with the default > driver set when you boot off the cd? Isn't that kind of silly? > Or at least if you need to make a custom boot disk, include that boot disk > on the cd. > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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