Adaptec's raidutil (asr-utils), 2010S and 5.2

[Gary Stanley]

I am in the same boat as you, some of our older SM servers have 2010S 
cards. But I can see his point tho, since Scott is on RE and other 
projects, it's very time consuming to work on something moderately old, 
however, I'm sure someone else will either pick it back up and mod it for 
5, and then everyone will be happy. :)



>I disagree that it's not in Adaptec's interests.  I've based my whole
>network around SuperMicro servers that support the ASR-based 0-channel
>RAID cards, because they were supported and had a command-line tool
>available on FreeBSD 4.x systems.  Since I know I'm going to need KSE and
>other features of 5.x, this is a huge problem for me.  I know I'm not
>alone in this.
>
>I just purchased 28 new servers, all with ASR-based 0-channel RAID cards,
>with the intention of installing 5-CURRENT on all of them.  D'oh.  Even if
>I move to different hardware (and therefore a different CLI), I already
>have many monitoring and alert systems built around raidutil that I'd have
>to rewrite or modify.  It also eliminates many of the primary reasons I
>buy those SuperMicro systems, with their neat, pre-run, custom cables,
>integrated SCSI controllers, etc.
>
>I'm sure there's more people on this list in a similar bind, so can you
>make any suggestions about who we can contact at Adaptec to let them know
>that we really do use this hardware, and that we do indeed purchase it
>based on the availability of the configuration/monitoring CLI?
>
>I really wish I could take you up on the suggestion that someone run with
>the existing source code, but I'm much more of a perl guy than a C hacker.
>
>Kris
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