From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <404FCEBE.5080503@Princeton.EDU> From: Martin Harriss User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] install w/Smart Array 3200 References: <571993b7d0d1aea69b4d7a10f3f9e995@juice.thebigchoice.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 21:28:14 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 29ed372c-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 If you go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpqarray you can find the specification for the Smart Array 3200 (and similar controllers.) It doesn't look *too* bad - probably not more complex than a driver for ATA disks. But I havn't looked at it too closely. 73 and Good Luck, Martin Eric KD5UWL wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks, Matt -- and you are right -- not exactly what I wanted to hear. > These boxes do have ncr scsi controllers in addition to the raid. I have > some sun D1000 arrays (just boxes of scsi disks - no hw raid) I could drag > over there and use, or just use these machines as CPU servers. > > I do have redhat on one of these machines and do see similar info about > the device and its driver...thanks for sharing the output of yours. > > I haven't written a device driver since I rewrote the keyboard and video > drivers for my trs80 in 1979 .. and that was in z80 assembler...guess > there's no better time than the present to try another ... > > Looks like I have some nice CPU servers in the meantime :) > > Thanks to all, > Eric >