From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 3 11:26:09 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 EC66616A4CE for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 11:26:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9192543D39 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 11:26:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i13JQ4Pf095156; Tue, 3 Feb 2004 13:26:04 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 13:26:04 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Kris Gale Message-ID: <20040203192604.GC77596@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20040202205510.DE27BC50D1@aurora.peterson.ath.cx> <20040202221851.GB47394@dan.emsphone.com> <54501.68.3.131.72.1075834986.squirrel@mail.asn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54501.68.3.131.72.1075834986.squirrel@mail.asn.net> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: support for Adaptec raid utilities? 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: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 19:26:10 -0000 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