aaccli problems

[Glenn Dawson]

At 06:22 PM 10/18/2004, you wrote:
>Glenn Dawson wrote:
>>At 08:28 PM 10/11/2004, Scott Long wrote:
>>
>>>Glenn Dawson wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have a number of systems with adaptec RAID controllers.  I have the 
>>>>aaccli port installed in order to manage things.
>>>>Recently I've had to increase KVA_PAGES in the kernel on some of the 
>>>>machines.  This appears to break aaccli.  The error I get when trying 
>>>>to use aaccli is this:
>>>>CLI > open aac0
>>>>Executing: open "aac0"
>>>>Command Error: <failed to wait for sema>
>>>>CLI >
>>>>Can anyone shed some light on the problem?
>>>>-Glenn
>>>
>>>
>>>This is a known problem and unfortunately will not be fixed until
>>>Adaptec decides to release a new version for FreeBSD.  I would recommend
>>>running the Linux version of aaccli under emulation.  You'll need to
>>>make sure that either the aac_linux.ko driver is loaded or the kernel
>>>is compiled with AAC_COMPAT_LINUX.
>>>
>>>Scott
>>
>>I managed to get the linux version of aaccli working on 4.8.  I have a 
>>new install of 4.10 and I can't seem to make it work.  I've installed 
>>linux_base from ports and the linux version of aaccli.  When I try to use 
>>aaccli I get this:
>>CLI > open aac0
>>Executing: open "aac0"
>>Command Error: <The requested controller does not exist.>
>>CLI >
>>If I try to manually load aac_linux.ko I get:
>># kldload aac_linux
>>kldload: can't load aac_linux: Exec format error
>>after, kldstat shows:
>># kldstat
>>Id Refs Address    Size     Name
>>  1    2 0x40100000 2d5484   kernel
>>  3    1 0x47bdc000 a000     aac.ko
>>Does anyone have any hints for me? (I'll supply dmesg, kernel config, etc 
>>in private if needed)
>>-Glenn
>
>When you try to load aac_linux.ko, does anything get printed on the console?
>
>Scott

Nothing other than what I already copied.

I need to solve this problem.  I can provide access to the machine in 
question if needed.

Thanks for all your help Scott.

-Glenn