[1507] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Support for Compaq Smart-2 Array Controller
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jos Vos)
Mon Oct 28 19:09:29 1996
From: Jos Vos <jos@xos.nl>
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Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 00:35:43 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <199610281824.MAA02154@babba.cu-online.com> from "Otto Hammersmith" at Oct 28, 96 12:24:27 pm
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> > > I am about to install RedHat 4.0 on a Compaq Prosignia 500 server. It has a
> > > Smart-2 Array Controller running 2 4.3GB drives. Does anyone have any
> > > experience configuring the controller so linux will see it? Should I just
> > > go thru the config like I'm going to install Dos/Windows and take it from
> > > there?
> >
> > That built-in SCSI-controller is an NCR53c810 chip, so it should work
> > with the appropriate driver (ncr53c7,8xx).
>
> Not bloody likely. ;)
We have a customer running a Linux distribution delivered by us on
about 10 Compaq Prosignia 300 and 500 systems all over the world.
And every new system where Linux is put on seems to be working fine.
The kernel includes (w.r.t. SCSI) just the NCR53c7,8xx driver.
The systems all use a SCSI-disk, SCSI-tape (HP-DAT), and the standard
CD-ROM, and they all work fine from the very beginning.
I've heart horrible stories about other Compaq systems, but the
Prosignia systems seem to work fine. I don't know about the
details of your problems, but these are just facts.
To be more concrete: the systems are running 1.2.13, with the
release 16 version (if I remember correctly) of the NCR driver.
If Linux 2.0.x behaves differently, I'ld like to know, of course.
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