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Re: Support for Compaq Smart-2 Array Controller
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otto Hammersmith)
Tue Oct 29 13:57:52 1996
From: Otto Hammersmith <ohammers@cu-online.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 10:54:28 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <199610282335.AAA00811@minnie.xos.nl> from "Jos Vos" at Oct 29, 96 00:35:43 am
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Jos Vos wrote:
>
> 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 had a 500 that was practically untested, as far as I could tell. I
wouldn't be surprised to find out that I was one of the first to
actually try to install Solaris on it.
Just out of curiosity, how old are those servers? I'm wondering if
the one I got was just bad.
> 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.
I'm glad it works for someone. ;)
I jut won't ever buy Compaq hardware again... nothing personal, I just
would rather know what I'm getting, and be sure that the manufactuer
didn't try something "clever" with standard part.
--
-Otto
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