Subject: Re: 3ware escalade BIOS & PC weasel through a xterm
To: john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 12/12/2003 14:05:01
john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net> wrote:
> > Newer versions of 3ware Escalades render text in a graphical mode
> > so as to fit more data on the screen. A downrev of the firmware
> > will resolve that issue, if that's what you're seeing.
>
> it claims the following
> 3ware ATA RAID Controller : Escalade 7506-8
> BIOS: BE7X 1.08.00.048 Firmware: FE7X 1.05.00.063
> and the 3ware page lists 7.6.3 as the latest. It does appear to be
> purely graphic output (via script and tip), though no text (such as
> the disk identities) appear in that output.
ok. then your problem is not with NetBSD. Your problem is with
3Ware spitting out graphical data to a remote management interface
that can only deal with text.