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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 14:24:55 -0700
From: Gordon Freeman <freebsdjunkie@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and Adaptec RaidUtils
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The link is created (and it is just a normal symlink as far as I can
tell) but once raidtuil runs the symlink disappears.

devfs.conf entry:
link    asr0    rdptr17


On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 21:17:28 +0000, Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote:
> 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:
> >
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/...May/023064.html
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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
> --
> 
> 
>