support for Adaptec raid utilities?

Kris Gale kgale at asn.net
Tue Feb 3 11:06:08 PST 2004


>> 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

Kris


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