From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 4 02:55:13 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 AF08016A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 02:55:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20A6743D64 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 02:55:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsdjunkie@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a36so189878rnf for ; Wed, 03 Nov 2004 18:55:12 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=QREXx7q4qQqRXKZ6i6nJ1N8YX367gPTNy1k3LvT4Eh+p1GSNIGkoTtegZllTK8rijiFzboazzYk+mkPYc+7u19paCWDnHuDCAf/cxpQMJ6K0ctlYSG9Zp69k2Obn/K8sFsykZJRCQEvtNzRU3gOzL5hsilLgaAiOCNe1qq0jD7Y= Received: by 10.38.73.35 with SMTP id v35mr894420rna; Wed, 03 Nov 2004 18:55:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.164.79 with HTTP; Wed, 3 Nov 2004 18:55:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <32ab229c0411031855753336f9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 19:55:12 -0700 From: Gordon Freeman To: Scott Long In-Reply-To: <41895B90.105@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <32ab229c041103131414015bbe@mail.gmail.com> <41895B90.105@freebsd.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 Reply-To: Gordon Freeman List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 02:55:13 -0000 Thank you for the information Scott. On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:28:32 -0700, Scott Long wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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" >