Re: HP and Debian "support" (was: Blade server recommendations?)

[Markus Oswald <moswald@iirc.at>]

On Fre, 2005-05-13 at 15:46 +0200, Emmanuel Halbwachs wrote:

> > and HP is not exactly forthcoming
> > with the necessary software that also runs on Debian.
> 
> I've heard but not tested that cpqarrayd is able to work with
> the SmartArray 6 series. This software (packaged by Matt Taggart) is
> available in sarge : http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/cpqarrayd
> 

I just installed it on a DL360G4 running Sarge and linux-2.6.11.
Seems to work fine with the SmartArray 6 series:

smtp-1:~# /etc/init.d/cpqarrayd start
Starting cpqarrayd: Checking for controllers.. 
DEBUG: Discarding old event 5/0/0
DEBUG: Discarding old event 5/2/0
Done
Monitoring list
 [ 0] Controller type 'CCISS Controller' at /dev/cciss/c0d0
Pid is 10917
cpqarrayd.
smtp-1:~#

regards,
  Markus
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