On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:41:29AM -0500, John Maier wrote:
> Well...you must admit this is a rather *exotic* piece of hardware and rather
> rare, comparatively speaking.  Let's face it, unless you are a Compaq shop
> with some money to spend, the budget user is going to just run vanilla SCSI

Ahh, that would be us.  Compaq shop at least.  

> Trust me, you aren't.  The install process even crashes on me, with the same
> sort of errors.  I've streamlined the Kernel, softdep on or off doesn't seem
> to make a difference, and the ONE consistent thing I can point at is, EVERY
> version of NetBSD after 1.5 crashes!

Well, I wish that was reassuring.  Unfortunately, I just want to get this
working.  Blah, 

 
> However there is hope!  I have another Compaq, at another office with RAID
> and it runs 1.5.3 great. (I just remembered!)

I have suspicions here...
 
> Compaq DL 360
> cac0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: Compaq Integrated Array

I thought so.  I know someone else running NetBSD (1.6.1 or current) on
a DL 360, which of course runs that Compaq Integrated Array which is 
different than the ones we are having problems with. 
 
> So is there some fundamental difference between the Compaq Smart Array 3200
> and the Compaq Integrated Array, or RAID 1 vs. 5 or combo?

Oh, no, it is not the RAID 1 vs. RAID 5, I have tried everything except RAID
4, and I still get the same errors.
 
> I can tell you, support for the Compaq Integrated Array was not added till
> 1.5.3_Alpha2, so...I'm guessing there are some at lease subtle differences
> in the controllers.

> One thing I have not tried, checking to see if there is a newer card code
> for the 3200, I've been running this box since 2000.

Well, that was a nice thought, but when I gave it a go, the box running the 
2 SL card still choked on me.  

Oh well, looks like I will have to go with FreeBSD for now at least.

Michael