Re: Support for HP Smart Array 5i in ciss(4)?

2007-02-14 Thread Christian Brueffer 
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:59:19PM +0100, nocturnal wrote:
 Hi
 
 The hardware notes for 6.2-RELEASE say that the ciss(4) driver supports 
 Compaq Smart Array 5i and HP Smart Array 6i but not HP Smart Array 5i. 
 Are all the cards that follow this CISS standard listed there or is it 
 possible that the driver will also support HP Smart Array 5i?
 
 I have not read the full data sheet from HP for the Smart Array 5i but i 
 searched through it and could not find any mention of CISS.
 -- 

It's certainly possible that the driver supports your controller.

The manpage says Controllers supported by the ciss driver include...
for the exact reason that it's not en exhaustive list.

- Christian

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Re: Support for HP Smart Array 5i in ciss(4)?

2007-02-14 Thread Oliver Fromme 
nocturnal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  The hardware notes for 6.2-RELEASE say that the ciss(4) driver supports
  Compaq Smart Array 5i and HP Smart Array 6i but not HP Smart Array 5i.

I assume that Compaq Smart Array 5i and HP Smart Array 5i
is the exact same thing.  The 51 predates the merger of HP
and Compaq, after which it was probably renamed because of
markting purposes, but it is still the very same thing,
technically.

FreeBSD runs fine on one of those here (a ProLiant DL360).

Best regards
   Oliver

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Re: Support for HP Smart Array 5i in ciss(4)?

2007-02-14 Thread Oliver Fromme 
nocturnal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I'm sorry for asking but you said you assume it would work then you said 
  it is running for you on a ProLiant DL360. Are you saying that you do 
  have the HP Smart Array 5i controller running on a ProLiant DL360?

Yes.  See the excerpt from the dmesg below.  It's even from
an old FreeBSD 4.x, but of course 6.x supports it as well.

Don't be confused by the names Compaq vs. HP.  As I wrote
in my previous mail, Compaq was taken over by HP a few years
ago, and all of the products were renamed, but they are
technically the same.

If you don't believe me, look up the PCI ID of the CISS 5i.
It's 0x40800e11 for both Compaq and HP.  You HP one
will probably be probed as being Compaq, too, because
the driver has no way to differentiate them.

Best regards
   Oliver

ciss0: Compaq Smart Array 5i port 0x3000-0x30ff mem 
0xf7ef-0xf7ef3fff,0xf7fc-0xf7ff irq 11 at device 4.0 on pci1
ciss0: using 256 of 1024 available commands
ciss0:   1 logical drive configured
ciss0:   firmware 1.80
ciss0:   2 SCSI channels
ciss0:   signature 'CISS'
ciss0:   valence 1
ciss0:   supported I/O methods 0xesimple,performant,MEMQ
ciss0:   active I/O method 0x3simple
ciss0:   4G page base 0x
ciss0:   interrupt coalesce delay 1000us
ciss0:   interrupt coalesce count 16
ciss0:   max outstanding commands 1024
ciss0:   bus types 0x2ultra3
ciss0:   server name ''
ciss0:   heartbeat 0x3033
ciss0: 1 logical drive
ciss0: logical drive 1: RAID 0, 16896MB online
[...]
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
da0 at ciss0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: COMPAQ RAID 0  VOLUME OK Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device 
da0: 135.168MB/s transfers
da0: 17359MB (35553120 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 4357C)

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