FreeBSD 5.4 & Adaptec 2010s - raidutil / aaccli

[M. L.]

Hi,

I can't post exact messages now, but dmesg detects an asr "Adaptec 
Caching RAID", and the only disk detected (the RAID-10) is da0. As I 
mentioned, raidutil (from the asr utils package) keeps saying 
/dev/rdpti17 doesn't exist, and if I symlink asr0 -> rdpti17, the next 
time I run raidutil, it will erase the symlink. As I also mentioned, 
some posts from google mentioned symlinking /dev/rasr0 -> rdpti17, but I 
don't have such device.

If you're talking about the SYSV-related kernel options, I have tried 
these and the error is the same.



Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:

>
> On Jul 16, 2005, at 10:45 AM, M. L. wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've managed to install FreeBSD 5 on a RAID-10 after my weird  
>> problem of random letters/numbers scrolling on the screen upon a CD  
>> boot (actually installed 4.10 from CD, cvsupped to 5.4, it worked -  
>> seems to be something related to the CD boot loader..).
>>
>> Wanting to have something to manage the raid with, a simple make  
>> search key=adaptec showed asr-utils and aaccli. I've had no luck  
>> with either one.
>>
>> I don't have the server online now (have it at home before shipping  
>> it, only have one set of cables, a pain to switch them due to cable  
>> locations etc)
>>
>>
>> With raidutil (from asr-utils), a raidutil -L all says something  
>> about COMPATIBITY NUMBER and then something about /dev/rdpti17.  I've 
>> tried to symlink /dev/asr0 to /dev/rdpti17, but the symlink is  gone 
>> when I run raidutil again. I googled a bit and there were  
>> suggestions about /dev/rasr0 -> /dev/rdpti17, but I have no rasr0  
>> device - only asr0. There was also some links about increasing SYSV  
>> memory, which I did, no luck either.
>>
>> I tried aaccli after having no luck with raidutil, and a aaccli  open 
>> asr0 says the controller is invalid or non-existant.
>>
>> camcontrol devlist shows the RAID-10, and I'm pretty sure the RAID  
>> is working - I've installed FreeBSD on it lol :-)
>>
>> All that I'm missing now is a tool to be able to manage the raid..   
>> any suggestions ?
>
>
> What is the device name for the disks?  What does dmesg say when it  
> detects the controller?  If it says something with aac in it then you  
> want the LINUX aaccli and if it says asr you want the asr utils, but  
> you need to google on FreeBSD and asr as there is a kernel option you  
> need for 5.4 to work with the asr utilities.
>
> For the aac device, you need to get the Linux aaccli program (much  
> more advanced) and also load the linux_aac kernel module.
>
> I have both a 2200S (aac) working with 5.3 and a 2100S (asr) working  
> with 5.4.  ALl on i386 version of FBSD
>
> Chad
>
>
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