On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 06:50:05PM -0400, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> <thorpej@zembu.com> (Jason R Thorpe) writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 06:57:31PM -0500, Mike Stone wrote:
> > 
> >  > by way of adding insult to injury, although i did make it through the boot
> >  > process and into the installation menu, now sysinst can't find the 
> >  > drives.   i assume the default installation kernel doesn't do RAID.
> > 
> > No, NetBSD does not yet have a driver for the DAC960.  Stay tuned.
> 
> I had a look into this issue when I was playing with a AlphaServer
> 2100 (Sable) system at work last year. From the chat I had with the
> folks at Mylex about the hardware, DAC960 units that were shipped in
> AlphaServers had different, custom firmware than "normal" DAC960
> cards, and as such will be somewhat more difficult to support.

Right, DEC had different DAC parts for the AlphaServers. Even worse:
the StorageWorks people had different f/w & parts for the PC world
than the DEC PC division. This caused *hum* interesting discussions
sometimes.

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