Re: [9fans] install w/Smart Array 3200

[matt@proweb.co.uk]

Hi,

with not having actually tested mine I didn't want to hazard a guess until someone else tried

here's the news you probably don't want :

I have FreeBSD installed on my 1600 proliant though it is due to come out of the co-lo soon 

dmesg reports the SMART as
ida0: <Compaq SMART-2SL array controller> port 0x3000-0x30ff mem 0xb8000000-0xbfffffff,0xc6ffff00-0xc6ffffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci2
ida0: drives=1 firm_rev=4.48
idad0: <Compaq Logical Drive> on ida0
idad0: 8673MB (17764320 sectors), blocksize=512


and looking in the kernel conf
device          ida             # Compaq Smart RAID

means that it is specialised so for it to work in plan9 someone will have to write a driver for it

The code for it is available and is under the BSD license

%pwd
/usr/src/sys/dev/ida
%ls -l
total 52
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  13565 Mar  1  2001 ida.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   7837 Nov 27  2001 ida_disk.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   8364 Jul 30  2001 ida_eisa.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   7850 Jul 30  2001 ida_pci.c
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   4346 Jul 27  2000 idareg.h
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   5691 Jul 30  2001 idavar.h
%cat * | wc
    1881    5702   47653


If you don't have a FBSD handy it's in CVS

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ida/

matt