raidutil: Engine connect failed: Open

[Don Bowman]

From: Guido Kollerie [mailto:gkoller at inter.nl.net]
> I have an ADAPTEC 2400A installed in my server. Every night I run
> the following job from cron:
> 
>     /usr/local/dpt/raidutil -L all
> 
> and have its output emailed to me. This seemed to worked fine for
> quite a while, however last night I received the following output
> from this job:
> 
>     Engine connect failed: Open
> 
> What's causing this and how can I resolve it?
> 
> I have searched the web for a cause and solution, but apart from
> a similar, unanswered, question asked in 2002 on this list I
> haven't found anything.
> 
> The obligatory 'uname -a' output:
> 
>     FreeBSD kollerie.com 4.9-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 
> 4.9-RELEASE-p3 #2: Wed Mar  3 14:41:19 CET 2004     
> toor at kollerie.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KOLLERIE  i386

Any chance you have a stuck copy of it still running?
there are a fixed number of 'dpt' devices.