From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 20:35:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9749E16A415 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:35:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spork@bway.net) Received: from xena.bway.net (xena.bway.net [216.220.96.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E02543CA7 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:33:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spork@bway.net) Received: (qmail 65345 invoked by uid 0); 13 Dec 2006 20:35:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO office-dhcp-32.bway.net) (spork@bway.net@216.220.107.32) by smtp.bway.net with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 13 Dec 2006 20:35:11 -0000 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:27:05 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman To: Jim Pingle In-Reply-To: <458034A7.6010106@pingle.org> Message-ID: <20061213152502.N95481@sporker.bway.net> References: <457E9222.2090406@withagen.nl> <458034A7.6010106@pingle.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adaptec 2100, asr driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:35:13 -0000 On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Jim Pingle wrote: > Willem Jan Withagen wrote: >> So the 1000$ question: is there any chance of getting at least the state >> of the RAID and its disk out into the open? It shure would give me a >> much better feeling, knowing that at least serious trouble would be >> detected by me. Instead of getting this call from a NOC. > > It works fine here. I use this on systems with 2100s, and with 2010s. > > cd /usr/ports/sysutils/asr-utils; make install clean > > Make sure it installs compat4x, it should as it is listed as a dependency. > > Add this to /etc/rc.conf: > compat4x_enable="YES" > > add "options ASR_COMPAT" to your kernel and rebuild the kernel I have quite a few machines with the Adaptec cards, and while I hate them and the management tools, I don't have much choice but to use them until we retire the hardware. Does anyone have any info on whether adaptec is planning on updating these tools to work with FreeBSD 6+? Or have they basically abandoned support for FreeBSD? Knowing that info would help me plan our 4.11 to 6.x migration. Thanks, Charles > Reboot. That's it. > > You can use "raidutil -A off" to silence the alarm once it is active. As > well as checking the drives with "raidutil -L all". You can get more/less > detail, just check the command line options. > > Jim > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >