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Re: Support for Compaq Smart-2 Array Controller
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Lampert)
Tue Oct 29 00:51:26 1996
From: Scott Lampert <fortunato@ioa.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 00:42:03 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <199610281824.MAA02154@babba.cu-online.com> from "Otto Hammersmith" at Oct 28, 96 12:24:27 pm
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[snip]
>> That built-in SCSI-controller is an NCR53c810 chip, so it should work
>> with the appropriate driver (ncr53c7,8xx).
>
>Not bloody likely. ;)
>
>I really really really really hope I'm wrong.
>
>I've had the misfortune of wrestling with one of these Compaq
>Monstrosities with Solaris x86. Not fun. The really scarry part was
>that Compaq supposedly worked with Sun to make the thing work right.
>Somehow in the line they changes some things that broke Solaris.
>Supposedly someone at Sun managed to get Solaris x86 running on an
>older box, but I just couldn't manage with the one I had.
>
>The two biggest problems were the built in SCSI and video.
[snip]
Well I run three Prosignia 300's here and I can't complain about
them at all. Every single part on the board is a standard and well
supported chipset. On the Prosignia 300's:
ethernet: AMD PCINet
SCSI: NCR53c810
Video: Cirrus Logic w/512K
I've been running Linux on them since we got them and have nary a burp.
The SCSI drives consistantly do 4.5 megs/sec according to hdparm with the
stock compaq 1 and 2 gig drives. In fact the only non-standard thing I had to
do was give them the "linux mem=32M" option to get them to show more than 16
megs. I don't know the hardware in the 500 series, but I doubt its
dissimilar. The only beef I have is the lame amount of video ram, but then
again, they were intended as servers and I don't run X on them anyway.
I have to disagree with your opinion.
-Scott
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