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
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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