On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 14:47 -0700, Scott Silva wrote:

ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/AP_Drivers/Linux/DRIVER/RedHat/Redhat-EnterpriseLinux/RHEL5.0/

No RPMS. :-(

Used sources from above in the RPMS I built for my local repo.

Thanks anyway, Phil

On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 23:32 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:

Hi,

Phil Schaffner wrote:

...

Karanbir provided driver disk images and indicated that kmod drivers would be in CentOS-5 Extras, but apparently these never materialized. The only src.rpm I could turn up was the last link above, and I did get CentOS-5 x86_64 kmod-style drivers to build from that one. Found other indications that these drivers MIGHT be in the standard 5.1 kernel.

Ive been talking to and working with the guys at Areca to get the drivers sorted, they are also working with upstream to get the driver included in the upstream kernel, for now - use the dd images I pushed, that will do-the-right-thing, and follow weak-updates, so you dont need kmod's for them with the kernels for c5 ( so far ) - I have half a dozen 11xx and 12xx Areca cards in production, and I can tell you that they totally rock!

Please pardon the cross-posting to centos-users - in case others may be interested.

Did a fresh install of CentOS-5 x86_64 on my server with Areca RAID (2 5TB RAID-5 arrays) with the OS on mirrored SCSI disks set up as software RAID-1 using Karanbir's dd ISO image. Used custom install and mounted the existing Areca RAID arrays as /data1 and /data2 (as they were for CentOS-4 - originally set up by the vendor with RHEL-4). Install and reboot went flawlessly, but after update to the latest kernel a reboot did not find the driver for kernel-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 and left me in single-user mode. Copied /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/updates/arcmsr.ko created by the original installation to /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.1.8.el5/weak-updates/arcmsr.ko did "depmod -a" and "modprobe arcmsr" and the Areca devices then mounted.

I'm a newbie to weak-updates so would appreciate it if anyone could point out the "right way" [TM] to do this automagically when a new kernel is installed. Perhaps my google-foo is off today, or I have not exercised sufficient diligence to RTFM, but can't seem to find the recipe.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch...

Wanted to try the dkms approach and the spec file below (based on RPMforge dkms-r1000.spec) worked for me. Installing the resulting RPM created /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.1.8.el5/extra/arcmsr.ko, made a soft link to it as /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/weak-updates/arcmsr.ko, and removed /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.1.8.el5/weak-updates/arcmsr.ko

Should probably have figured out how to use the original ZIP archive from the vendor

ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/AP_Drivers/Linux/DRIVER/CentOS/CentOS-5.0/1.20.0X.13/arcmsr.redhat.1.20.0x.13.zip

in the spec, but instead cheated and created a .tgz archive from it to stay closer to the r1000 spec file's approach:

$ tar ztvf arcmsr.redhat.1.20.0x.13.tgz drwxrwxr-x prs/prs 0 2006-12-22 17:52:50 arcmsr.redhat.1.20.0x.13/ drwxrwxr-x prs/prs 0 2006-12-22 17:52:50 arcmsr.redhat.1.20.0x.13/arcmsr/ -rw-rw-r-- prs/prs 96956 2006-11-08 16:59:50 arcmsr.redhat.1.20.0x.13/arcmsr/arcmsr.c -rw-rw-r-- prs/prs 377113 2006-11-08 16:59:00 arcmsr.redhat.1.20.0x.13/arcmsr/arcmsr.h -rw-rw-r-- prs/prs 149 2005-07-21 19:10:00 arcmsr.redhat.1.20.0x.13/arcmsr/Makefile

Have yet to have a go at packaging the vendor's binary (CLI and HTTP) files in an RPM (reference earlier nosrc.rpm discussions in this thread), but did create a chkconfig-compatible script to set up the httpd service after a manual install. See below.

I would hope Areca drivers might appear on RPMforge or CentOS Extras some day soon. Comments appreciated.

Phil

------------------- dkms-arcmsr.spec --------------------- # $Id$ # Authority: prs # Dist: nodist

Summary: Driver for Areca RAID Name: dkms-arcmsr Version: 1.20.0x.13 Release: 1 License: GPL Group: System Environment/Kernel # Need to unzip driver archive and convert to tgz URL: ftp://ftp.areca.com.tw/RaidCards/AP_Drivers/Linux/DRIVER/CentOS/CentOS-5.0 Source: arcmsr.redhat.%{version}.tgz BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root BuildArch: noarch Requires: gcc Requires(post): dkms Requires(preun): dkms

%description Driver (Linux kernel module) for Areca RAID Controllers.

%prep %setup -n arcmsr.redhat.%{version}

%build

%install %{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}

%define dkms_name arcmsr %define dkms_vers %{version}-%{release} %define quiet -q

# Kernel module sources install for dkms %{__mkdir_p} %{buildroot}%{_usrsrc}/%{dkms_name}-%{dkms_vers}/ %{__cp} -a arcmsr/* %{buildroot}%{_usrsrc}/%{dkms_name}-%{dkms_vers}/

# Configuration for dkms %{__cat} > %{buildroot}%{_usrsrc}/%{dkms_name}-%{dkms_vers}/dkms.conf << 'EOF' PACKAGE_NAME=%{dkms_name} PACKAGE_VERSION=%{dkms_vers} BUILT_MODULE_NAME[0]=%{dkms_name} DEST_MODULE_LOCATION[0]=/weak_updates AUTOINSTALL="YES" EOF

%clean %{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}

%post # Add to DKMS registry dkms add -m %{dkms_name} -v %{dkms_vers} %{?quiet} || : # Rebuild and make available for the currenty running kernel dkms build -m %{dkms_name} -v %{dkms_vers} %{?quiet} || : dkms install -m %{dkms_name} -v %{dkms_vers} %{?quiet} --force || :

%preun # Remove all versions from DKMS registry dkms remove -m %{dkms_name} -v %{dkms_vers} %{?quiet} --all || :

%files %defattr(-, root, root, 0755) #%doc release_note.txt README %{_usrsrc}/%{dkms_name}-%{dkms_vers}/

%changelog * Wed Sep 12 2007 Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaffner@nasa.gov 1.20.0X.13 - Initial RPM release. ----------------- end dkms-arcmsr.spec -------------------

----------------------- areca-httpd --------------------- #!/bin/sh # # areca-httpd: Starts the Areca daemon # # Author: Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaffner@nasa.gov # # chkconfig: 345 40 60 # description: Start the areca application which logs the current state # of the Areca RAID 1170 controller card, and then polls # for state changes. # # processname: areca-httpd # config: Unknown

# Source function library. . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

RETVAL=0 ARECA_BIN=/root/bin/archttp64 ARECA_PORT="888"

# See how we were called. case "$1" in start) echo -n "Starting Areca RAID 1170 HTTP daemon: " $ARECA_BIN $ARECA_PORT >&/tmp/ArecaHTTP.log & RETVAL=$? echo [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/areca-httpd || RETVAL=1 ;; stop) echo -n "Stopping Areca RAID 1170 HTTP daemon: " killall $ARECA_BIN RETVAL=$? [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/areca-httpd echo sleep 2 ;; status) ps auxww | grep $ARECA_BIN RETVAL=$? ;; restart) $0 stop $0 start RETVAL=$? ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}" exit 1 esac

exit $RETVAL --------------------- end areca-httpd -------------------

Jan Iven wrote:

On 04/09/07 23:34, Phil Schaffner wrote:

...

Found other indications that these drivers MIGHT be in the standard 5.1 kernel.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=205897 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=238014

you obviously have more bugzilla foo than the restofus[tm] since atleast one of those is marked private.

:)