Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and Adaptec raidutils (again)

From: David O'Brien <obrien_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 12:43:52 -0800
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:50:10AM -0500, Matt Rowley wrote:
> >>Yes; you can work around it by declaring a temp variable, assigning it
> >>the value of attachedTo, making whatever modification is necessary,
> >>then assigning attachedTo=temp.  Do this every time you get that error.
> >>You /might/ also be able to just remove the PACKed attribute from the
> >>attachedTo field, but that will cause havoc if the struct is supposed
> >>to line up with something generated by the card.
> >>
> >
> >I'd highly recommend against removing the packed attribute.
> 
> :)  It does compile, when you remove packed.  After commenting out the 
> unneeded semaphore union struct in basic.hh, the whole thing compiles.  The 
> resulting raidutil binary spews out the same error as the one from the 
> current binary port about "Engine connect failed: COMPATIBILITY number"... 
> but that's to be expected.

Can you post a patch to the sources?  We should make the port build from
source, but it never rose high enough on my priority list.  Is anyone
interested in working with me in updating the port?
 
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-- David  (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)
Received on Sun Dec 19 2004 - 19:44:02 UTC

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