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Date:      Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:46:38 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>
To:        Greg Rivers <gcr+freebsd-ports@tharned.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: smartmontools-5.38 and cciss RAID controller
Message-ID:  <20080428054638.GA76895@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.1.10.0804272352100.1116@nc8000.tharned.org>
References:  <alpine.BSF.1.10.0804271010060.1116@nc8000.tharned.org> <20080428043328.GA73433@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <alpine.BSF.1.10.0804272352100.1116@nc8000.tharned.org>

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On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:01:40AM -0500, Greg Rivers wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Apr 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>
>> Which build (date) of the smartmontools-5.38 port are you using?
>>
>> When the port was initially upgraded to 5.38, the CISS support patch
>> (for 5.37 and below) was left in.  It later turned out that the CISS
>> support patch was not needed at all, because 5.38 incorporates support
>> for CISS natively, thus was removed.
>>
>> See here:
>>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/sysutils/smartmontools/Makefile
>>
>
> Right, good point, I noticed that too.  I built smartmontools-5.38 on April
> 21, two days after that commit.  Prior to that (but after 5.37) the port
> was marked broken if ciss was selected in the config options.

Sounds like the issue might need to go upstream to Bruce (author of
smartmontools).  Any other ciss(4) users who can confirm this behaviour
on theirs?

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