I got a Proliant 1500 dual running with Slackware 8.1
I've two smart and one smart2/e (battery backed) controller.

I'm currently trying to duplicate this using 9.0.

I got at least the ordinary ones working, am not sure anymore about the smart2e, and never three at once.

The only problem I had was that I had to boot via a lilo disc,
not from HDs. (raid)

- I made all discs. (Raid.s , install1..5 and the network disk)
- IIRC I set RAID controller to netware, not to windows, and OS to NT in smartstart.
- booted raid.s with smart2=0x1000,0x5000 mem=96M
(hex values are 0x1000*<eisa number>
- boot and partition, DON'T start setup.
- mount the network disc , copy the contents using TAR (cp didn't work), create a sane kernel module structure below /lib/modules
- modprobe the nic (a thunderlan in my case, so module tlan)
- unmount the disc.
- extract disc set "A", copy drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym63c8xx.tar.gz + .module config files
to a floppy disc.. mount it on the proliant, and move files
to their places
- modprobe .sym53c8xx
- continue normal install
- but don't exit, and make a lilo disc.

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If I try to boot 9.0, (with raid.s and above options or scsi.s which contains the sym53c8xx module), I get some error about not being able to mount something (probably the CD).

But I can't scroll back the kernel msgs, to see what it tries to mount.

I've inherited a pair of Proliant 4500s, a Proliant 5000 and a Proliant 6500.