From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 3 21:17:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A71B016A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 21:17:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc2-cdif3-6-0-cust204.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.103.67.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E41243D5C for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 21:17:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.43 (FreeBSD)) id 1CPSVU-0004s1-Nf; Wed, 03 Nov 2004 21:17:28 +0000 Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 21:17:28 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Gordon Freeman Message-ID: <20041103211728.GB57641@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Gordon Freeman , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <32ab229c041103131414015bbe@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="te3rk8GLJQeNZKrd" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <32ab229c041103131414015bbe@mail.gmail.com> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: Ceri Davies cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and Adaptec RaidUtils X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 21:17:29 -0000 --te3rk8GLJQeNZKrd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:14:37PM -0700, Gordon Freeman wrote: > Between 5.2.1 and 5.3-RC2 the rasr device was removed: >=20 > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/...May/023064.html >=20 > In FreeBSD 5.2.1 it use to be that using the compat4x port and > creating a symlink of /dev/rasr0 to /dev/rdpti17 would be enough to > allow Adaptec's RAID management binaries work. However, that trick no > longer appears to be working. When you run Adaptec's raidutil (either > from the port or from the Adaptec package itself) the symlink > disappears and raidutil returns an error stating that it couldn't > connect to /dev/rdptr17. >=20 > Any ideas on why the symlink disappears or another way to get the old > Adaptec binaries to work under FreeBSD 5.3 short of rewriting asr.c to > include a device alias? Does it work if you create the symlink via devfs.conf? Ceri --=20 --te3rk8GLJQeNZKrd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBiUroocfcwTS3JF8RAuZTAKCSTU8HKfHV1dxLe+AgzeC6g+kF2wCgtdtF Gz8an8nOD3JZU8a9T3Lj5xM= =QHCI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --te3rk8GLJQeNZKrd--