Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 11:10:45 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: Gordon Freeman <freebsdjunkie@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and Adaptec RaidUtils Message-ID: <418A70A5.5000807@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20041104105241.B64530@newtrinity.zeist.de> References: <32ab229c041103131414015bbe@mail.gmail.com> <41895B90.105@freebsd.org> <20041104105241.B64530@newtrinity.zeist.de>
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Marius Strobl wrote: > 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. > Ah, it is a BSD-style license. However, someone will have to take a careful look through each file to check for consistency here. Any volunteers? Scott
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