Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:20:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: Helge Oldach <helge.oldach@atosorigin.com> To: bms@spc.org (Bruce M Simpson) Cc: matt@domsch.com Subject: Re: afaapps port committed to FreeBSD Message-ID: <200310131520.RAA04960@galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com> In-Reply-To: <20031006120920.GC31567@saboteur.dek.spc.org> from Bruce M Simpson at "Oct 6, 2003 2: 9:20 pm"
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Hi, I may sound ignorant, but what is wrong with the FreeBSD-native aaccli utility that can be downloaded from Adaptec (5400s_fbsd_cli_v10.zip)? I have been using this for some time now with success. May I suggest to make a port out of this as well? Helge Bruce M Simpson: >Hi, > >I'm a FreeBSD src committer who deals with Dell hardware a lot. I've just >committed a port of afaapps to FreeBSD. I should be grateful if you could >add this to your extremely useful list of resources. > >Please pass on my sincere thanks to your colleagues at Dell for providing us >with these tools. > >I've tested the tools with Scott Long's aac(4) driver. This has a >passthrough >for the ioctls which the afacli tool uses. Version 2.7 of the tools, with a >PowerEdge 2400 chassis' Dell PERC 2/Si running firmware 2.1, work perfectly >under Linux emulation in FreeBSD 4.9-RC. > >I understand that Dell do not officially support FreeBSD; members of the >Project certainly hope that will change in future, as the forthcoming 5.2 >release is looking very promising. I also understand that distribution >restrictions exist on Dell software, therefore the port has been marked >RESTRICTED (binaries will not be distributed as part of FreeBSD releases), >in accordance with Dell's wishes. > >Kind regards, >Bruce M. Simpson <---> bms@spc.org / bms@FreeBSD.org / vm/net hacker >
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