Re: accessing BIOS and RAID info on old Compaqs

Dave,

In answer to question 1, it's been a little while (at least 4 year) since I've
worked on Compaq gear. But, if memory serves me correctly, you hit F10 when
the cursor kicks from the left hand side of the screen to the right hand
side. This should be a relatively obvious change, and I believe it's also
accomanied by a system beep.

However, most of the older Compaq gear required a system partition and the
BIOS config was installed there. If you fdisk'd the drive and did not load
the Compaq system partition back in, you may have problems. That said, there
were a few system (espeically towards "the end") that had a normal BIOS that
could be accessed without the system partition loaded. I'm fairly certain
that F10 was still the correct key to press in that case as well.

HP bought Compaq, and they may still have some of the "legacy" drivers and
software on the [HP] support site.

In answer to question 2, I'm a FBSD newbie and really have no idea on that
one.

Hope that helps.

George

On Sun October 29 2006 23:55, David Newman wrote:
Greetings. For FBSD 6.1 on old Compaq DL320 and 1850R machines:

1. Is there a way to access the system BIOS, either at boot time or
(preferably) from within FBSD? I'm specifically interested in seeing
what the system's hardware clock is set to.

2. Is there a way to monitor the Compaq Smart Array RAID controllers and
disks attached to them from within FBSD?

Smartmontools is great for monitoring disk health, but no good with
RAID. I don't have Compaq RAID CDs for all the machines in question, and
in any event would prefer to monitor disks from within FBSD if possible.

thanks

dn
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