New install of 9.2 unable to load Adaptec RAID drivers

[Sam Lawrence]

Hi Guys,

Having some headaches with installing my Adaptec 6805E on the new 9.2 Release,

I am using the files from aacraid_freebsd_b30034.tgz in the FreeBSD 9 folder,

I have done the following
1) mount -rw /
2) pkg_add /media/aa9x-amd64.tgz
3) reboot freenas
....

'dmesg | grep aac' gives...

KLD file aacu.ko - could not finalize loading

Please help!

 

[Sam Lawrence]

i have also tried to load aacu64.ko using 'kldload' but i get the error " kldload: can't load /boot/modules/aacu64.ko: Exec format error"

 

[cyberjock]

Since the .ko file won't load you'll have to compile the driver into FreeNAS. If you can't or don't know how, my recommendation is to put a ticket in at bugs.freenas.org and wait for developers to add support for the controller.

In the meantime, you should consider getting an IBM M1015 as it'll do the same function as your Adaptec card, is cheaper than your Adaptec card, and is fully compatible with FreeNAS out of the box.

 

[Sam Lawrence]

:'( i thought it was going to end up that way... Thanks! i'll attempt to compile it in myself, do you have good references for this?

 

[cyberjock]

Just Google for any available FreeBSD documentation on compiling drivers. There's no good guides here because 99.9% of users are either too noobly to figure it out in a reasonable period of time or they will know how to do it with no documentation. The fact that you are asking the questions you are tells me you are probably in the former.

 

[Jim Brown]

:'( i thought it was going to end up that way... Thanks! i'll attempt to compile it in myself, do you have good references for this?

Did you have any luck Sam? I am considering the same. Thanks!

 

[Bender555]

Found this

Just a little information to let you know that there is a new driver available for 6805 Adaptec driver :

http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/speed/raid/aac/unix/aacraid_freebsd_b30034_tgz.htm


1. decompress the archive, copy the module to /boot/module/.
2. add a /boot/loader.conf.local containing :

CODE: SELECT ALL
# Loading Adaptec Raid ASR 6805 card
aacu64_load="YES"