Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:24:42 -0500 (EST) From: Kyle Tucker <kylet@shore.net> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 3.3 on Compaq 4500 w/ Smart RAID 2/E Message-ID: <E11yzFK-0004Tw-00@shell3.shore.net>
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I have a Compaq 4500 which is EISA bus (no PCI) with a Smart RAID Array 2/E controller. From all my attempts and research I have come up with the followinq conclusions, perhaps all incorrect. :) - Any SCSI disks in the 4500 itself on the embedded controller can't use the NCR driver (ncr0) as it appears to be a PCI driver and 3.3 refused to load it from visual config as device ncr0 is not found. - According to an old post, I cannot load the OS directly onto the RAID array, that I must put the OS in a seperate disk and use the array for extra storage. I also could not get a custom kernel to recognize it without hard-coding the EISA slot number in ida.c as someone suggested and then the system hangs during the auto probe. So am I barking up the wrong tree here or should I be able to load the OS on either of these? If on the embedded controller, what driver do I need? - Kyle --------------------------------------------- kylet@shore.net http://www.shore.net/~kylet UNIX Sys Admin "Grandpa, what was NT?" --------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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