freebsd-proliant Digest, Vol 52, Issue 1

[Rainer Duffner]

Greg Eden wrote:
> Hello!
>
>>    I tried installing hpacucli from [1]http://people.freebsd.org/~jcagle
>>    on FreeBSD 6.2/amd64
>>    and could get it installed only after tweaking version check in
>>    INSTALL script.
>>    But after running hpacucli it segfaults with code 11.
>>    Did anyone succed on installing it or is there maybe another way of
>>    geting it to work on
>>    FreeBSD6.2/amd64 or maybe another tool that has the same
>>    functionality?
>
> AFAIK there are no online tools like hpacucli for FreeBSD. The 
> original tools were withdrawn because of unspecified problems. It's 
> very awkward. I'm about to install some new disks in an MSA20 and have 
> to create a new RAID5 volume in the BIOS utility (losing a disk in the 
> process) because there are no online tools to expand the existing volume.
>
> If you can have the box offline for a day or two you can probably use 
> the linux ACU tools from a Linux live CD to expand an array.
>
> Sadly that's not an option for me.


What I'd really like to know is what exactly is holding the development 
for these utilities back?
Can't they just open-source them?
Can't they find someone whos is working on them for free, with a NDA or not?

I assume a lot of people would be willing to jump through a lot of hoops 
to get this to work, myself included.



cheers,
Rainer