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Comment on Using smartmontools-5.38 with series 2/5/5Z controllers with firmware 17380 onwards by Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:58:27 +0000

Hi Ondhest, sorry about that - would you be able to try this. If it doesn’t help (works on my machine) let me know and I can email you directly.


--- os_linux.cpp.orig   2009-11-19 10:12:48.000000000 +0000
+++ os_linux.cpp        2009-11-19 10:52:24.000000000 +0000
@@ -660,6 +660,7 @@
 #define SG_IO_RESP_SENSE_LEN 64 /* large enough see buffer */
 #define LSCSI_DRIVER_MASK  0xf /* mask out "suggestions" */
 #define LSCSI_DRIVER_SENSE  0x8 /* alternate CHECK CONDITION indication */
+#define LSCSI_DID_ERROR 0x7 /* Need to work around aacraid driver quirk */
 #define LSCSI_DRIVER_TIMEOUT  0x6
 #define LSCSI_DID_TIME_OUT  0x3
 #define LSCSI_DID_BUS_BUSY  0x2
@@ -784,7 +785,10 @@
                 (LSCSI_DID_TIME_OUT == io_hdr.host_status))
                 return -ETIMEDOUT;
             else
-                return -EIO;    /* catch all */
+               /* Check for DID_ERROR - workaround for aacraid driver quirk */
+               if (LSCSI_DID_ERROR != io_hdr.host_status) {
+                       return -EIO;    /* catch all if not DID_ERR */
+               }
         }
         if (0 != masked_driver_status) {
             if (LSCSI_DRIVER_TIMEOUT == masked_driver_status)

thanks, Phil

Comment on Using smartmontools-5.38 with series 2/5/5Z controllers with firmware 17380 onwards by ondhest

ondhest — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:57:37 +0000

I get this message when trying to patch:
Hunk #2 FAILED at 788.
1 out of 2 hunks FAILED — saving rejects to file os_linux.cpp.rej

Anyone know what to do?

Comment 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

Comment on Improving support for Debian based OS’s 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.

Comment on How do I get Adaptec Storage Manager to work with Ubuntu 7.10? by William Pechter

William Pechter — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:35:23 +0000

FYI — it works fine with Ubuntu/Kubuntu 9.10 as well. I installed asm_linux_v4.30-16038.rpm to work with my 2410 and it fired right up following the above information.

Comment on Updating the aacraid driver in Ubuntu by Ob

Ob — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:54:00 +0000

Great, thanks a lot !

Comment on Updating the aacraid driver in Ubuntu by Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:11:43 +0000

Hi Ob, to use MaxIQ SSD caching there’s no dependency on the driver. You just need later firmware (17517 onwards) and latest ASM 6.30 onwards s/w if you want to configure via the GUI. I’ve been using build 2461 on my benchmark machine with no problems.

thanks, Phil

If you need deb packages for ASM 6.30 - see my comments on Oct 8th above

Comment on Updating the aacraid driver in Ubuntu by Ob

Ob — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:13:21 +0000

Hi,
If I want to use the MAX-IQ SSD-cache product with a series 5, do I need to compile a new aacraid driver ?
I have 2461 that comes with my distribution and I have been unable to compile the 2468 dkms driver against my 2.6.31 kernel.

Comment on Updating the aacraid driver in Ubuntu by Gianni

Gianni — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:39:19 +0000

Hi Phil,
thanks for your answer. I’ll try this solutions during the Week-End. My doubt was entirely due to the release note of the 6.3 version. If it works this way, great news.
I’ll keep you informed about results.
Best Regards
Gianni

Comment on Smartmontools and Adaptec RAID controllers by Paul

Paul — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:50:00 +0000

Patrick, you did not pass any parameter to the -T option.

Try -T verypermissive