support for Adaptec raid utilities?

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Feb 03), Kris Gale said:
> >> Is there any support for using Adaptec's raid utilities for (among
> >> others) the 3210 adapter?  In 5.2, this adapter is controlled by
> >> the asr driver, but the utilities (admittedly for an older rev of
> >> FreeBSD) are looking for /dev/sd*, /dev/sr*, and /dev/dpti (and
> >> /dev/rdpti).
> 
> > The utilities have not been updated to keep up with changes in the
> > kernel.  I think you can work around the problem by symlinking
> > /dev/rasr0 to /dev/dptr17 (possibly some other number).  See the thread
> > starting at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.scsi/1933 .
> 
> The symlink trick works to make the executable run, but I personally
> haven't had any success getting it to actually communicate with the
> RAID card.  (Tested with Adaptec 2010S)
> 
> Here's a thread on freebsd-scsi where Scott Long basically says the
> ASR tools aren't going to work on 5.x without a substantial overhaul.
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2004-January/000961.html

Same thread :)  I used gmane because lists.freebsd.org didn't archive
all the messages in that thread.  I have two 4.x boxes with 3200S's in
them that I will hopefully be upgrading this year, so I may have
hardware to play with (unless it gets immediately repurposed, which
happens a lot).

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com