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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Compaq SmartArray support on LiveCD
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 14:04:52
Message-Id: 1094566546.13991.30.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Compaq SmartArray support on LiveCD by Rumi Szabolcs
1 On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 11:02, Rumi Szabolcs wrote:
2 > Hello!
3 >
4 > Is there any reason why the Compaq SmartArray series controllers
5 > are not supported by the LiveCD kernels?
6
7 Which LiveCD are you referring to exactly?
8
9 Also, it would be a good idea to file a bug on this and assign it to
10 livecd@g.o so it gets fixed for the next LiveCD.
11
12 Also, boot with the SMP kernel. It has support for the Smart Array
13 family. We apparently missed it on the 2.4 kernels.
14
15 > Almost every RAID, SCSI, FCAL, etc. controller is supported
16 > but cpqarray.o and cciss.o are both missing which makes it
17 > quite hard to install gentoo on a machine that has such an
18 > array as the system disk.
19 >
20 > Regards,
21 > Szabolcs Rumi
22 >
23 > --
24 > gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list
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26 Chris Gianelloni
27 Release Engineering - Operations/QA Manager
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