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Originally Posted by PatrickBaer
OpenBSD seems to have stopped support on this controller.
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Not
seems. Actually has.
There is an aac(4) driver, but it is not included in the GENERIC kernel. The man page for the aac(4) driver says:
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BUGS
The card provides a mechanism to do online RAID set management, unfortunately the protocol is not public.
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The i386 HCL says of the aac(4) driver:
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...Adaptec has lied to us repeatedly about forthcoming documentation so that RAID support for these (rather buggy) raid controllers could be stabilized, improved, and managed.
As a result, we do not recommend the Adaptec cards for use.
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For a little of the history:
See http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=artic...20050318231311 for an OpenBSD Journal article with links to e-mail back and forth with Adaptec, and some discussion.
The CVS log for src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC has a one-line description for revision 1.406 which removed the aac(4) driver from the GENERIC kernel. It does not bear repeating in public. Here's a link:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvswe...6/conf/GENERIC
More can be had from the misc@ archives, but as there were many threads, it is best to search them yourself.