Dell Perc-3/Di problem with linux cli management tool

[Scott Long]

Michael Butler wrote:

> I'm trying to use the Dell/Redhat CLI to manage a pair of mirrored disks 
> in a Dell PowerEdge 2650 but I get:
> 
> FASTCMD> open afa0
> Executing: open "afa0"
> Command Error: <The driver could not execute the requested IOCTL 
> SENDFIB,  22=Invalid argument.>
> 
> I have "options AAC_COMPAT_LINUX" in the kernel config and dmesg shows:
> 
> aac0: <Dell PERC 3/Di> mem 0xf0000000-0xf7ffffff irq 16 at device 8.1 on 
> pci4
> aac0: i960RX 100MHz, 118MB cache memory, optional battery present
> aac0: Kernel 2.7-1, Build 3170, S/N 6841d3
> aac0: Supported 
> Options=75c<WCACHE,DATA64,HOSTTIME,WINDOW4GB,SOFTERR,NORECOND,SGMAP64>
> 
>  [ .. ]
> 
> aacd0: <RAID 1 (Mirror)> on aac0
> aacd0: 34712MB (71091456 sectors)
> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/aacd0s2a
> 
>  .. but it also shows:
> 
> linux: 'ioctl' fd=4, cmd=0x2008 (' ',8) not implemented
> 
> The more recent version (contained in afaapps-2.7-1.i386.rpm) has an 
> unresolvable dependency on libartsc.so.0 which doesn't appear in any 
> linux_base port :-(
> 
> Any hints as to how to get this to fly?

Is the driver being loaded as a module, or is it compiled into the
kernel?  For the kernel option to work, the driver must also be compiled
in (though I guess that I could fix this).  As Luoqi pointed out, there
is a FreeBSD-native version that should also work.

Scott