Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 10:52:41 +0100 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: Gordon Freeman <freebsdjunkie@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and Adaptec RaidUtils Message-ID: <20041104105241.B64530@newtrinity.zeist.de> In-Reply-To: <41895B90.105@freebsd.org>; from scottl@freebsd.org on Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 03:28:32PM -0700 References: <32ab229c041103131414015bbe@mail.gmail.com> <41895B90.105@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 03:28:32PM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > Gordon Freeman wrote: > > Between 5.2.1 and 5.3-RC2 the rasr device was removed: > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/...May/023064.html > > > > In FreeBSD 5.2.1 it use to be that using the compat4x port and > > creating a symlink of /dev/rasr0 to /dev/rdpti17 would be enough to > > allow Adaptec's RAID management binaries work. However, that trick no > > longer appears to be working. When you run Adaptec's raidutil (either > > from the port or from the Adaptec package itself) the symlink > > disappears and raidutil returns an error stating that it couldn't > > connect to /dev/rdptr17. > > > > Any ideas on why the symlink disappears or another way to get the old > > Adaptec binaries to work under FreeBSD 5.3 short of rewriting asr.c to > > include a device alias? > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Ugh, this is something that I never had time to finish up. The problem > is that I modified the version number of the control interface (since I > had massively cleaned it up and removed lots of silly and deprecated > things), but I never modified the raidutils package to handle the > changes. Since the raidutils source turns out to have a highly > ambiguous and likely toxic copyright and license for which Adaptec seems > to care little about, I'll likely never make the needed changes. It > might be possible to revert the control interface back to something that > raidutil can use, but I can't get to it right now. > Did you get any further in investigating whether the BSD-style licensed raidutils source at http://i2o.shadowconnect.com is legal, i.e. it was re-licensed by Adaptec? At least that homepage claims that Mark Salyzyn was involed in this.
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