FreeBSD 5.4 & Adaptec 2010s - raidutil / aaccli

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Jul 16, 2005, at 1:06 PM, M. L. wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I can't post exact messages now, but dmesg detects an asr "Adaptec  
> Caching RAID", and the only disk detected (the RAID-10) is da0. As  
> I mentioned, raidutil (from the asr utils package) keeps saying / 
> dev/rdpti17 doesn't exist, and if I symlink asr0 -> rdpti17, the  
> next time I run raidutil, it will erase the symlink. As I also  
> mentioned, some posts from google mentioned symlinking /dev/rasr0 - 
> > rdpti17, but I don't have such device.
>
> If you're talking about the SYSV-related kernel options, I have  
> tried these and the error is the same.

No there is a specific ASR option

options         ASR_COMPAT

Rebuild your 5.4 kernel with this.  I had the exact same issues with  
the 2100S as you describe until I added that to my kernel, thanks to  
some info I found in Google.

Chad

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> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
>
>
>>
>> On Jul 16, 2005, at 10:45 AM, M. L. wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've managed to install FreeBSD 5 on a RAID-10 after my weird   
>>> problem of random letters/numbers scrolling on the screen upon a  
>>> CD  boot (actually installed 4.10 from CD, cvsupped to 5.4, it  
>>> worked -  seems to be something related to the CD boot loader..).
>>>
>>> Wanting to have something to manage the raid with, a simple make   
>>> search key=adaptec showed asr-utils and aaccli. I've had no luck   
>>> with either one.
>>>
>>> I don't have the server online now (have it at home before  
>>> shipping  it, only have one set of cables, a pain to switch them  
>>> due to cable  locations etc)
>>>
>>>
>>> With raidutil (from asr-utils), a raidutil -L all says something   
>>> about COMPATIBITY NUMBER and then something about /dev/rdpti17.   
>>> I've tried to symlink /dev/asr0 to /dev/rdpti17, but the symlink  
>>> is  gone when I run raidutil again. I googled a bit and there  
>>> were  suggestions about /dev/rasr0 -> /dev/rdpti17, but I have no  
>>> rasr0  device - only asr0. There was also some links about  
>>> increasing SYSV  memory, which I did, no luck either.
>>>
>>> I tried aaccli after having no luck with raidutil, and a aaccli   
>>> open asr0 says the controller is invalid or non-existant.
>>>
>>> camcontrol devlist shows the RAID-10, and I'm pretty sure the  
>>> RAID  is working - I've installed FreeBSD on it lol :-)
>>>
>>> All that I'm missing now is a tool to be able to manage the  
>>> raid..   any suggestions ?
>>>
>>
>>
>> What is the device name for the disks?  What does dmesg say when  
>> it  detects the controller?  If it says something with aac in it  
>> then you  want the LINUX aaccli and if it says asr you want the  
>> asr utils, but  you need to google on FreeBSD and asr as there is  
>> a kernel option you  need for 5.4 to work with the asr utilities.
>>
>> For the aac device, you need to get the Linux aaccli program  
>> (much  more advanced) and also load the linux_aac kernel module.
>>
>> I have both a 2200S (aac) working with 5.3 and a 2100S (asr)  
>> working  with 5.4.  ALl on i386 version of FBSD
>>
>> Chad
>>
>>
>>
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