Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and Adaptec RaidUtils

Marius Strobl wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ah, it is a BSD-style license.  However, someone will have to take a
careful look through each file to check for consistency here.  Any
volunteers?

Scott