FreeBSD on an old Compaq

Charley bsd at agileemmy.com
Wed May 7 07:41:56 PDT 2003


On Tue, 6 May 2003 15:56:20 -0700, James Long wrote
> On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 01:35:47PM -0400, Charley wrote:
> > 
> > Is there something else that I need?
> 
> Unrelated to your symptoms, perhaps, but a copy of a Compaq 
> SmartStart CD appropriate for your vintage of server is useful,
>  especially if you have a Compaq RAID controller in the box.  The 
> SmartStart CD can configure your RAID and then (assuming its a Smart-
> 2-something or SmartArray 3200) FreeBSD should recognize the RAID 
> controller and logical drives as the ida device and disks idad0, 
> idad1, etc.


Any idea where I could obtain such a thing?  I had kinda come to the same 
conclusion in dealing with HP's web site, but I haven't been able to find a 
place to even order the proper cd.



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