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#1 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 06:41 AM

Let me start off by saying, I am completely behind OpenBSD's stance on
disabling Adaptec raid support (aac) in the kernel of the 3.7 release
and future releases. The way the open source community has been treated
by these companies is abhorrent and without people standing up and
asking for documentation we will end up with insufficient software,
hacks and otherwise unscrupulous work a rounds that frankly don't cut
it in a NOC. As an aside, we run a complete Dell shop with
perc3(Adaptec) based cards and though I have no future plans as of this
time to buy Adaptec in the future. Is there a walk through out there to
turn aac back on so that I can build a cdrom installation that works?

#2 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 06:41 AM

Andrew wrote:
> Let me start off by saying, I am completely behind OpenBSD's stance on
> disabling Adaptec raid support (aac) in the kernel of the 3.7 release
> and future releases. The way the open source community has been treated
> by these companies is abhorrent and without people standing up and
> asking for documentation we will end up with insufficient software,
> hacks and otherwise unscrupulous work a rounds that frankly don't cut
> it in a NOC. As an aside, we run a complete Dell shop with
> perc3(Adaptec) based cards and though I have no future plans as of this
> time to buy Adaptec in the future. Is there a walk through out there to
> turn aac back on so that I can build a cdrom installation that works?

Update, I was able to install by following the upgrade guide from 3.6 to
3.7, although not as clean as possible, it works.

#3 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 06:42 AM

Andrew wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
>
>> Let me start off by saying, I am completely behind OpenBSD's stance on
>> disabling Adaptec raid support (aac) in the kernel of the 3.7 release
>> and future releases. The way the open source community has been
>> treated by these companies is abhorrent and without people standing up
>> and asking for documentation we will end up with insufficient
>> software, hacks and otherwise unscrupulous work a rounds that frankly
>> don't cut it in a NOC. As an aside, we run a complete Dell shop with
>> perc3(Adaptec) based cards and though I have no future plans as of
>> this time to buy Adaptec in the future. Is there a walk through out
>> there to turn aac back on so that I can build a cdrom installation
>> that works?
>
>
> Update, I was able to install by following the upgrade guide from 3.6 to
> 3.7, although not as clean as possible, it works.
>
After some further work on a different machine, I was able to get 3.7
installed without using 3.6. I made a RAMDISK_CD kernel with aac in
/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/ then went into
/usr/src/distrib/i386/ramdisk_cd and did a make. I found the bsd.rd in
/usr/obj/distrib/i386/ramdisk_cd and was able to use that to boot with
the enabled aac support. Note I also had to build a GENERIC kernel with
aac support, to use after the install. Obviously aac is no longer
supported in the kernel, so do with this info. what you will.

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