Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 13:26:04 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Kris Gale <kgale@asn.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: support for Adaptec raid utilities? Message-ID: <20040203192604.GC77596@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <54501.68.3.131.72.1075834986.squirrel@mail.asn.net> References: <20040202205510.DE27BC50D1@aurora.peterson.ath.cx> <20040202221851.GB47394@dan.emsphone.com> <54501.68.3.131.72.1075834986.squirrel@mail.asn.net>
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In the last episode (Feb 03), Kris Gale said: > >> Is there any support for using Adaptec's raid utilities for (among > >> others) the 3210 adapter? In 5.2, this adapter is controlled by > >> the asr driver, but the utilities (admittedly for an older rev of > >> FreeBSD) are looking for /dev/sd*, /dev/sr*, and /dev/dpti (and > >> /dev/rdpti). > > > The utilities have not been updated to keep up with changes in the > > kernel. I think you can work around the problem by symlinking > > /dev/rasr0 to /dev/dptr17 (possibly some other number). See the thread > > starting at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.scsi/1933 . > > The symlink trick works to make the executable run, but I personally > haven't had any success getting it to actually communicate with the > RAID card. (Tested with Adaptec 2010S) > > Here's a thread on freebsd-scsi where Scott Long basically says the > ASR tools aren't going to work on 5.x without a substantial overhaul. > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2004-January/000961.html Same thread :) I used gmane because lists.freebsd.org didn't archive all the messages in that thread. I have two 4.x boxes with 3200S's in them that I will hopefully be upgrading this year, so I may have hardware to play with (unless it gets immediately repurposed, which happens a lot). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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