[clue-tech] RAID

[Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.]

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On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:50:51AM -0700, mike havlicek wrote the following:
> BTW on most of these cards you have to flash it.
> Fortunately there is often software to do this so you
> no longer have to get hardware equip to do it.... :)
> 
> For example a stock DAC960 requires a certain level of
> firmware for the dandelion driver which comes stock in
> the kernel to work ... (Curiously ... is that fellow
> dead? I used to email him ... can't remember what Alan
> said when I mailed him:)
> 
> That is a pain especially with the DAC960 where the
> BIOS utils left a lot to be desired. Always have had
> to use the DOS based utils ... Here is where they get
> funny. Compaq evidentally made all Smart controller
> low level tools windows based...... You deduce ...
> 
> After hours on HP support a kind man gave me rpms for
> linux utils .... but why not bios :)
> 
> 
> I have more but am sure I am boring you and am boring
> myself:)
> 
> -Mike

Probably because they don't want to give away how the hardware works or all
of its capabilities. Granted any idiot with half clue can reverse engineer
the thing (both the circuitry and capabilities). Just need a Digital
MultiMeter to get a circuit diagram, specs on the chips used, etc.

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