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Date:      Sun, 25 Oct 1998 18:08:25 -0000
From:      Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>
To:        "'Terry Lambert'" <tlambert@primenet.com>, dnelson@emsphone.com
Cc:        sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: What kind of SCSI controller is in a Compaq Proliant 3000?
Message-ID:  <E40CBF0361C7D111914000C0F0303D10877E@OCTOPUS>

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This is a little late, I've got a hefty -current backlog I'm clearing.

I've definately seen Compaq's with AMD SCSI controllers, I can't
remember whether they were proliants though. I thought we had support
for them as well?

Paul Richards Ph.D.
Originative Solutions Ltd


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Lambert [mailto:tlambert@primenet.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 08, 1998 3:18 AM
> To: dnelson@emsphone.com
> 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?
> 
> 
> > > 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
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
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