kern/123666: [aac] aac(4) will not work with Adaptec SAS RAID 3805 controller

[Ed Maste]

The following reply was made to PR kern/123666; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org>
To: Alexander Titaev <tit at ispserver.com>, bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Cc: freebsd-scsi at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/123666: [aac] aac(4) will not work with Adaptec SAS RAID 3805 controller
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 17:15:51 -0400

 >  but in 7.0-STABLE all worked fine
 >  
 >  msk-srv# uname -mr
 >  7.0-STABLE amd64
 >  msk-srv# dmesg | grep ^aa
 >  aac0: <Adaptec RAID 3805> mem 0xd8400000-0xd85fffff irq 18 at device 14.0 o=
 >  n pci11
 >  aac0: Enabling 64-bit address support
 >  aac0: Enable Raw I/O
 >  aac0: Enable 64-bit array
 >  aac0: New comm. interface enabled
 >  aac0: [ITHREAD]
 >  aac0: Adaptec 3805, aac driver 2.0.0-1
 >  aacp0: <SCSI Passthrough Bus> on aac0
 >  aacp1: <SCSI Passthrough Bus> on aac0
 >  aacp2: <SCSI Passthrough Bus> on aac0
 >  aacd0: <Volume> on aac0
 >  aacd0: 953690MB (1953157120 sectors)
 >  aacd1: <RAID 5> on aac0
 >  aacd1: 5722190MB (11719045120 sectors)
 
 It looks like this followup was to the wrong PR;  kern/123666 is about
 a failure of the driver to attach.  Your issue is that your RAID-5 array
 is larger than 2TB and the driver in 7.0-RELEASE is missing support for
 that; it is fixed in RELENG_7 and will be in 7.1.
 
 -Ed