freebsd stable - Nov 2006 - adaptec utilities on amd64?

Does anyone have any hints on monitoring adaptec RAID's (particularly  
aac devices such as 2230SLP) on FreeBSD 6.2/amd64?  I don't need to  
reconfigure anything, just know when and which drives have failed, if  
any.

The latest card I got apparently has firmware too new for use with  
the FreeBSD native aaccli.  Older versions of that card worked fine  
when freebsd4 compat was built into the kernel with FreeBSD 6.0, 6.1  
and 6.2.

I installed (with some $ARCH trickery) the linux-afaapps port, but it  
fails to run with this error:

/compat/linux/usr/sbin/afacli: error while loading shared libraries: / 
usr/lib/libartsc.so.0: ELF file OS ABI invalid

So then I tried the linux arcconf utility on the CD that came with  
the card.  It reports "Controllers found: 0".

Is there any other program to try?   Has anyone hacked up a small  
program to do the necessary ioctl calls to the aac driver to probe  
the raid status and print out a degraded/optimal type output?   
something like what the kernel prints on boot would be sufficient.

I'm very scared to put the server into production without a way to  
monitor the RAID status.

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 05:14:18PM -0500, Vivek Khera
wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any hints on monitoring adaptec RAID's (particularly  
> aac devices such as 2230SLP) on FreeBSD 6.2/amd64?  I don't need to  
> reconfigure anything, just know when and which drives have failed, if  
> any.
>
	I have a 2230SLP that I will be installing early next week
   on my AMD64 implementation. I am hoping that the aaccli program
   in ports will work.
> 
> I installed (with some $ARCH trickery) the linux-afaapps port, but it  
> fails to run with this error:
> 
> /compat/linux/usr/sbin/afacli: error while loading shared libraries: / 
> usr/lib/libartsc.so.0: ELF file OS ABI invalid
>
	Did you brandelf the library? I tried working with the code
   from the CD, but ran into three problems:

1) I could not get additional .jar files recognised. (for the 
       authenticateUser code)

2) The java code eventually goes into linux shared libraries, and
  (native) java seems rather reluctant to use linux libraries in
  the compat mode

3) Linux mode java should have worked based on the pathname supplied,
  but it did not. So, back to the aaccli program...
>
> So then I tried the linux arcconf utility on the CD that came with  
> the card.  It reports "Controllers found: 0".
> 
	Yeah, me to. But, I figure that is because it runs into
   other problems first.

							Bruce
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