Comments on: Improving support for Debian based OS’s

By: Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:15:54 +0000

Hi Alex, sorry for the delay - we do have the arcconf CLI utility though it ships together with the ASM software and hasn’t been publically posted separately. It works on pretty much everything (though uses an older libstdc++ library so the ASM package includes this to avoid compatibility problems). I can mail you a tarball with the x86 and x86_64 versions of the utility and the older libstdc++ lib if that would be any help? I like the idea you propose - will see if I can put that together.

For info regarding the ASM software, I did add this to another post but really should have added it here too. There’s a deb packaged (and scripts fixed) version of the latest public shipping ASM s/w here

http://www.adaptec.com/support/files/

When prompted enter :-

Filename: asm_debian_x86_x64_v6_30_18508.tgz
Password: ASMDEB

This is a tar of both the 32bit and amd64 versions of the ASM software. It is a repackage of the latest 6.30 build 18508 version released on the public site (but made by me so any problems please report them back here).

many thanks, Phil

By: Alex G

Alex G — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:30:55 +0000

This would be fantastic. My company is developing a product based on the Ubuntu LTS distribution, and it would be really nice to have more vendor support for hardware RAID. We’re currently limited to controllers from a certain vendor with a number and four letters in the name, due to their excellent distribution-independent utility.

I would personally be happy if Adaptec would ship a statically-linked executable and man page in a tar.gz file.

By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:06:36 +0000

this would be awesome. i would suggest testing with some form of Debian itself as the other distros are built off of it. but however you guys decide to do the testing, getting a .deb out there of any sort would be great. im currently running my controllers with no OS tools installed as i have not had the time or energy to convert the .rpm and change the scripts around, not to mention setting up the accounts to work with it afterwords.

By: Richard Huddleston

Richard Huddleston — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:34:10 +0000

Cheers to Jörg Herzinger … great comment !!!

By: Jesse Jarzynka

Jesse Jarzynka — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:36:29 +0000

Yes, please.

By: Jörg Herzinger

Jörg Herzinger — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:36:10 +0000

Great ideas and I think since the rpms work on Lenny almost out of the box some repository hosted by adaptec with the packages would be the best solution. Creating custom debian packages is an easy job, just like hosting your own repository.
Btw: debs are much easyer to handle than rpms so I never understood why companies offered rpms but no debs.

By: Tuckie

Tuckie — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:11:52 +0000

Just adding my support for this action. Debs always make upgrading to the new version much easier. My current setup requires me to enter my root password twice just to view my controller status (as well has having to set a root password, something I didn’t want to do). I would love to just be able to add my user to a group.

By: Walter Kitzinger

Walter Kitzinger — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:34:19 +0000

Dear Phil,

this would be great, I have five Ubuntu servers (8.10 & 9.04) with Adaptec 3805 and I would love to be able to monitor disks and get an e-mail if a disk fails.

Cheers,

Walter

By: Suno Ano

Suno Ano — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:03:45 +0000

Having a .deb from the official debian repositories would be a major leap towards increased support. I have no idea if Adaptec employs a debian developer who could do this?

So far, I have converted .rpm to .deb myself
http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/hardware.html#adaptec_31205_raid_hba