asr-utils not working with 5.3 release

[Oliver Velten]

> Scott Long wrote:
> > Jon Noack wrote:
> > 
> >> Oliver Velten wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have set up a new system with a adaptec 2100S SCSI-Raid Card using 
> >>> Raid5
> >>> on
> >>>
> >>> root at zeus:~> uname -a
> >>> FreeBSD zeus 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Feb 19 22:49:13
> CET
> >>> 2005     root at zeus:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZEUS  i386
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I installed /usr/ports/sysutils/asr-utils
> >>>
> >>> then did a
> >>> $ raidutil -L all
> >>>
> >>> after a
> >>>
> >>> $ ln -s asr0 rdpti0
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> The asr management support was removed before 5.3 (see rev. 1.55 and 
> >> rev. 1.60 of asr.c for the reason) and added back in last week (see 
> >> rev. 1.66/1.64.2.1 of asr.c).  Update to RELENG_5 (currently 
> >> 5.4-PRERELEASE) for support.  I tested it on my 2100S a few days ago 
> >> and it worked great.
> >>
> >> Because 5.x uses devfs, your rdtpi0 link will disappear after you 
> >> reboot.  Instead of using "ln -s", add the following to 
> >> /etc/devfs.conf to make the link permanent:
> >>
> >> # Make asr-utils work
> >> link    asr0    rdpti0
> >>
> >>> error message. After searching a little bit I found one open bug
> reports
> >>> about the same problem (ports/72520) but I know there is one more, 
> >>> that I
> >>> did not found.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ports/72520 should be closed.
> >>
> >> Jon
> > 
> > 
> > I just committed a band-aid that will eliminate the need for devfs 
> > gymnastics.  I'll see about squeezing it into 5.4.
> > 
> > Scott
> 
> 
> One more thing....
> 
> Please Please Please someone step forward and re-write the asr
> utilities.  I don't like adding more band-aids to FreeBSD to cope with
> severe design flaws in the software that are fairly easy to fix.  Please
> get rid of the dmesg scraping that tries to create /dev nodes on the fly
> based on how the asr major number was previously displayed during boot.
> Please remove the ioctls that make the kernel poke around in Option ROM
> memory.  Please remove the ioctls that try to retrieve silly system
> stats from the kernel.  Please fix the silly signal handling that
> pervades the low-level API and makes it impossible to port it or
> incorporate it in more advanced front-ends.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Scott
> 

I would if I could, but I'am more a user than a developer who have
experience with this.... 

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