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Date:      Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:11:47 -0700
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        noackjr@alumni.rice.edu
Cc:        cognet@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: asr-utils not working with 5.3 release
Message-ID:  <424DC723.5090106@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <424DC4B5.4030309@alumni.rice.edu>
References:  <922.1112390947@www7.gmx.net> <424DC4B5.4030309@alumni.rice.edu>

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Jon Noack wrote:
> Oliver Velten wrote:
> 
>> I have set up a new system with a adaptec 2100S SCSI-Raid Card using 
>> Raid5
>> on
>>
>> root@zeus:~> uname -a
>> FreeBSD zeus 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Feb 19 22:49:13 CET
>> 2005     root@zeus:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZEUS  i386
>>
>>
>> I installed /usr/ports/sysutils/asr-utils
>>
>> then did a
>> $ raidutil -L all
>>
>> after a
>>
>> $ ln -s asr0 rdpti0
> 
> 
> The asr management support was removed before 5.3 (see rev. 1.55 and 
> rev. 1.60 of asr.c for the reason) and added back in last week (see rev. 
> 1.66/1.64.2.1 of asr.c).  Update to RELENG_5 (currently 5.4-PRERELEASE) 
> for support.  I tested it on my 2100S a few days ago and it worked great.
> 
> Because 5.x uses devfs, your rdtpi0 link will disappear after you 
> reboot.  Instead of using "ln -s", add the following to /etc/devfs.conf 
> to make the link permanent:
> 
> # Make asr-utils work
> link    asr0    rdpti0
> 
>> error message. After searching a little bit I found one open bug reports
>> about the same problem (ports/72520) but I know there is one more, that I
>> did not found.
> 
> 
> ports/72520 should be closed.
> 
> Jon

I just committed a band-aid that will eliminate the need for devfs 
gymnastics.  I'll see about squeezing it into 5.4.

Scott



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