FreeBSD 5.3 and Adaptec RaidUtils

[Ceri Davies]

On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:14:37PM -0700, Gordon Freeman wrote:
> Between 5.2.1 and 5.3-RC2 the rasr device was removed:
> 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/...May/023064.html
> 
> In FreeBSD 5.2.1 it use to be that using the compat4x port and
> creating a symlink of /dev/rasr0 to /dev/rdpti17 would be enough to
> allow Adaptec's RAID management binaries work. However, that trick no
> longer appears to be working. When you run Adaptec's raidutil (either
> from the port or from the Adaptec package itself) the symlink
> disappears and raidutil returns an error stating that it couldn't
> connect to /dev/rdptr17.
> 
> Any ideas on why the symlink disappears or another way to get the old
> Adaptec binaries to work under FreeBSD 5.3 short of rewriting asr.c to
> include a device alias?

Does it work if you create the symlink via devfs.conf?

Ceri
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