Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and Adaptec RaidUtils

On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 03:28:32PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> Gordon Freeman wrote:
> > Between 5.2.1 and 5.3-RC2 the rasr device was removed:
> > 
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/...May/023064.html
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 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?
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> 
> Ugh, this is something that I never had time to finish up.  The problem
> is that I modified the version number of the control interface (since I
> had massively cleaned it up and removed lots of silly and deprecated
> things), but I never modified the raidutils package to handle the
> changes.  Since the raidutils source turns out to have a highly
> ambiguous and likely toxic copyright and license for which Adaptec seems
> to care little about, I'll likely never make the needed changes.  It
> might be possible to revert the control interface back to something that
> raidutil can use, but I can't get to it right now.
> 

Did you get any further in investigating whether the BSD-style
licensed raidutils source at http://i2o.shadowconnect.com is legal,
i.e. it was re-licensed by Adaptec? At least that homepage claims
that Mark Salyzyn was involed in this.