aac tool regressions on 7.0-RC1

[Chris Timmons]

Ed,

Your work-around works on 7-stable as of this morning.

I have quite a few 2200S equipped systems that I am transitioning from 6.X 
to 7-stable and aaccli is necessary to be able to insert/remove drives and 
initialize them into storage arrays.

sysutils/arcconf says it needs aacraid-drivers from Adaptec's website to 
be fully functional; I don't see any FreeBSD drivers at Adaptec for the 
2200S (perhaps they are available for a newer product but will work for 
this older adapter?)

If aaccli is the only way to control the 2200S, is there some hope that a 
fix of some sort could ultimately be committed?

Thanks for your effort.

Regards,
-Chris

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Ed Maste wrote:

> I suspect Adaptec has a firmware bug relating to the RequestAdapterInfo
> and RequestSupplementAdapterInfo commands.  The driver family support
> brought in the latter, while the former has always been there.  It
> appears that RequestAdapterInfo returns all zeros if it's called after
> RequestSupplementAdapterInfo or something.
>
> The hack patch below forces reasonable values into the aac_revision
> struct if it's zeroed, and it restores aaccli usage for me.  If you
> have time I'd be interested in finding out if you can continue using
> aaccli with this patch added.
>
> -Ed