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Subject: Re: DAC960, 2.4.19 alpha problems
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "T. Weyergraf" <kirk@colinet.de>
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On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 11:06, T. Weyergraf wrote:
> Please note, that i am aware, that the alpha will not boot from that device,
> since it's firmware does not see the controller. It will not be used for
> booting. Upgrading to a newer/different distro ist problematic, since the system
> cannot be taken out of service easily ( I can reboot it for testing purposes ).

Does the firmware need to run to make the card work however ? Thats a
problem on some other raid cards that prevents them running on non x86
platforms



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