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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:43:52 -0700
From:      Chris Wasser <cwasser@v-wave.com>
To:        "J. Maynard Gelinas" <mgelinas@bbn.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems writing a disklabel/filesystems to Chaparral RAID
Message-ID:  <4447.991130@v-wave.com>
In-Reply-To: <199911301642.LAA03784@bbn.com>
References:  <199911301642.LAA03784@bbn.com>

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on 11/30/1999 9:42 AM, mgelinas@bbn.com wrote:
> continue getting support for the hardware. This just seems crazy... it's a
> SCSI disk as far the the OS is concerned, it just shouldn't matter what OS I
> use. The only possible issue I can see is if the disk array has more cyls,
> heads, sects than is supported by FreeBSD or Solaris/x86, but I can't imagine
> that

First  off,  let me say that's a sexy piece of hardware you have there
however  I'm  not  familiar with it but it's very possible that it's a
specialized  piece  of  hardware  in  the sense it's built for Windows
platforms  only.  I've seen hardware in my many travels that "refuses"
to  work  properly  under any OS except Windows. Have you tried direct
connecting  the  drives  themselves  on  a regular SCSI controller and
seeing if FreeBSD can deal with them?

As  far  as  the  vendor claiming it needs to be on ID 0, to me that's
absolute  nonsense.  It may turn out that the vendor is trying to take
you  for  a  ride  and simply doesn't want to support anything outside
their  meager  field of expertise. Perhaps you're better off replacing
the RAID unit itself and keep the drives.

Not alot of help, but it's a start.

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