Subject: Re: Smart Arrays
To: None <he@NetBSD.org>
From: mihai.chelaru <mihai.chelaru@girsa.ro>
List: current-users
Date: 02/06/2006 12:12:02
"Havard Eidnes" <he@NetBSD.org> wrote in message
news:<20060206.105930.99632419.he@uninett.no>...
> I'm buying a new Xeon server in days and I have to choose between two RAID
> controllers:
>
> Smart Array 641 U320 Intrl. RAID Ctrl. (291966-B21)
> and
> Smart Array 642 U320 Intrl. RAID Ctrl. (291967-B21)
>
> Any ideas if any of those are supported by NetBSD?
> That's probably Hewlett-Packard's "HP Smart Array" controllers --
> right? If so, NetBSD does unfortunately not have a driver for those.
> There exists a driver over in FreeBSD-land, though; ciss(4). So far
> it appears that noone has stepped up to the plate to port it over to
> NetBSD.
Yes, It's HP Compaq, sorry I forgot to mention that. No chance to support it
via cac(4), right ?
--
Ty,
Mihai