From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric KD5UWL To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] install w/Smart Array 3200 In-Reply-To: <571993b7d0d1aea69b4d7a10f3f9e995@juice.thebigchoice.com> Message-ID: References: <571993b7d0d1aea69b4d7a10f3f9e995@juice.thebigchoice.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:51:21 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 29e69246-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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 On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 matt@proweb.co.uk wrote: > 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: port 0x3000-0x30ff mem 0xb8000000-0xbfffffff,0xc6ffff00-0xc6ffffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci2 > ida0: drives=1 firm_rev=4.48 > idad0: 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 >