[2089] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Compaq array controller
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Neuffer)
Mon Jun 30 20:35:18 1997
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 02:19:54 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Michael Neuffer <neuffer@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de>
To: David Ngo <dngo@hardees.rutgers.edu>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199706302156.RAA25864@hardees.rutgers.edu>
On Mon, 30 Jun 1997, David Ngo wrote:
> We have a Proliant 5000 on which I'm dying to try linux. Has anyone
> ever successfully loaded a driver for the SMART-2/P array controller
> or found a driver for it? I've attempted to look for it just about
> everywhere I can think of, but no luck.
>
> I'm guessing that this controller uses proprietary Compaq technology -
> I certainly hope not, but I figured it was worth a try.
Compaq has sold DPT controllers under their own label, this might perhaps
be one of them, so give the eata-dma driver a shot. It might work.
Mike
