Adaptec 2120S management (raidutil) ?

Scott Long scott_long at btc.adaptec.com
Tue Jul 8 12:05:54 PDT 2003


Buki wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:17:34AM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> 
>>Buki wrote:
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>The old 'Storage Manager' and 'raidutil' tools do not work with
>>the newer generation of Adaptec RAID cards.  The newer genreation
>>use 'Storage Manager Browser Edition' for the GUI and 'aaccli' for
>>the CLI.  I ported the aaccli program to FreeBSD a few years ago,
>>but it has fallen out of date and I don't recommend using it with
>>the 2120/2200 cards.  You can, however, extract the Linux version
>>of 'aaccli' from the CD that comes with the card and run it under
>>FreeBSD.  You'll need the normal linux compatibility tools, and
>>you'll need to either compile your kernel with AAC_COMPAT_LINUX
>>or load the 'aac_linux.ko' kernel module.
> 
> 
> OK, I probably should mention I am using FreeBSD 4.8 in which I failed
> to locate either aac_linux.ko or AAC_COMPAT_LINUX
> OTOH, aac_linux.ko exist under FreeBSD 5.1, but I don't want to
> use 5.x in production.
> But thanks anyway :)
> 
> 
>>Scott
> 
> 
> Buki

I apologize, the aac_linux.ko thing only exists in 5.x.  However, the
AAC_COMPAT_LINUX kernel option _does_ exist in all versions of FreeBSD
after 4.1.  I wrote the driver.

Scott



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