Adaptec 2100, asr driver

[Marc G. Fournier]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1



- --On Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:13:11 -0500 Jim Pingle <lists at pingle.org> 
wrote:

> Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
>> So the 1000$ question: is there any chance of getting at least the state
>> of the RAID and its disk out into the open? It shure would give me a
>> much better feeling, knowing that at least serious trouble would be
>> detected by me. Instead of getting this call from a NOC.
>
> It works fine here. I use this on systems with 2100s, and with 2010s.
>
> cd /usr/ports/sysutils/asr-utils; make install clean
>
> Make sure it installs compat4x, it should as it is listed as a dependency.
>
> Add this to /etc/rc.conf:
> compat4x_enable="YES"
>
> add "options ASR_COMPAT" to your kernel and rebuild the kernel
>
> Reboot. That's it.
>
> You can use "raidutil -A off" to silence the alarm once it is active. As
> well as checking the drives with "raidutil -L all". You can get more/less
> detail, just check the command line options.

This kind of information (ie. options ASR_COMPAT) would be good to add to the 
pkg_message for ports like this ... same thing trip'd me up the other day, and 
someone let me know about it ...

- ----
Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email . scrappy at hub.org                              MSN . scrappy at hub.org
Yahoo . yscrappy               Skype: hub.org        ICQ . 7615664
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQFFgXjR4QvfyHIvDvMRAp3kAKCg+0RCFcRWxyrLCOZuYeP9F0sFJwCguRYe
3VQJAG6L0H0g/pCPyadawaw=
=7b7v
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----