Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 21:17:28 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Gordon Freeman <freebsdjunkie@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and Adaptec RaidUtils Message-ID: <20041103211728.GB57641@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <32ab229c041103131414015bbe@mail.gmail.com> References: <32ab229c041103131414015bbe@mail.gmail.com>
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--te3rk8GLJQeNZKrd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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: >=20 > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/...May/023064.html >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 --=20 --te3rk8GLJQeNZKrd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBiUroocfcwTS3JF8RAuZTAKCSTU8HKfHV1dxLe+AgzeC6g+kF2wCgtdtF Gz8an8nOD3JZU8a9T3Lj5xM= =QHCI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --te3rk8GLJQeNZKrd--
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