From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 4 09:52:49 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 EE2A916A4CE; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:52:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from newtrinity.zeist.de (newtrinity.zeist.de [217.24.217.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 566C543D31; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 09:52:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marius@newtrinity.zeist.de) Received: from newtrinity.zeist.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) iA49qlAZ091013; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 10:52:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marius@newtrinity.zeist.de) Received: (from marius@localhost) by newtrinity.zeist.de (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id iA49qg2L091012; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 10:52:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from marius) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 10:52:41 +0100 From: Marius Strobl To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20041104105241.B64530@newtrinity.zeist.de> References: <32ab229c041103131414015bbe@mail.gmail.com> <41895B90.105@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <41895B90.105@freebsd.org>; from scottl@freebsd.org on Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 03:28:32PM -0700 X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir Milter (version: 1.1; AVE: 6.28.0.12; VDF: 6.28.0.52; host: newtrinity.zeist.de) cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Gordon Freeman 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: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 09:52:50 -0000 On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 03:28:32PM -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. > Did you get any further in investigating whether the BSD-style licensed raidutils source at http://i2o.shadowconnect.com is legal, i.e. it was re-licensed by Adaptec? At least that homepage claims that Mark Salyzyn was involed in this.