From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 4 18:09:44 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 8502216A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 18:09:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F9CE43D53 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 18:09:44 +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 iA4IBYXa026690; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 11:11:35 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <418A70A5.5000807@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 11:10:45 -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: Marius Strobl References: <32ab229c041103131414015bbe@mail.gmail.com> <41895B90.105@freebsd.org> <20041104105241.B64530@newtrinity.zeist.de> In-Reply-To: <20041104105241.B64530@newtrinity.zeist.de> 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 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 18:09:44 -0000 Marius Strobl wrote: > 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. > Ah, it is a BSD-style license. However, someone will have to take a careful look through each file to check for consistency here. Any volunteers? Scott