From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 3 22:27:25 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 6A17416A4CE for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 22:27:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ED1243D41 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 22:27:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (junior-wifi.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iA3MTFYq022042; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:29:15 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <41895B90.105@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:28:32 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040929 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gordon Freeman References: <32ab229c041103131414015bbe@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <32ab229c041103131414015bbe@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pooker.samsco.org 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 22:27:25 -0000 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? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Ugh, this is something that I never had time to finish up. The problem is that I modified the version number of the control interface (since I had massively cleaned it up and removed lots of silly and deprecated things), but I never modified the raidutils package to handle the changes. Since the raidutils source turns out to have a highly ambiguous and likely toxic copyright and license for which Adaptec seems to care little about, I'll likely never make the needed changes. It might be possible to revert the control interface back to something that raidutil can use, but I can't get to it right now. Scott