I2O + raidutils support

[Peter]

> Hi all,
>
> first, please let me say that I'm new to this list. I actually HAVE
> searched the archives and I HAVE used google a lot on this, but now I'm
> posting.
>
> I'm running a box that has undergone several 'yum update's since it
> exists, currently 'uname -r' says: 2.6.12-1.1448_FC5smp
>
> My problem is: somewhere along the way the little bash script I wrote,
> that uses 'raidutil' (from http://i2o.shadowconnect.com/) has stopped
> working and doesn't report the status of the Raid anymore, which makes
> monitoring a bit... hard.
>
> I use an Adaptec ASR2010S. F.e., the output of 'raidutil -L controller'
> is:
>
> Engine connect failed: COMPATIBILITY number
> osdIOrequest : File /dev/dpti17 Could Not Be Opened
>
> I have found instructions, among which are to recreate /dev/dpti0 up to
> /dev/dpti17, but the end of the story seems to be that the driver dpt_i2o
> has been replaced by i2o_block and now needs a patch to work. The patch is
> available at the i2o site, but since I'm a little frightened to actually
> recompile my own kernel, here's my question:
>
> When will those patches finally be integrated in the downloadable kernel
> packages, so that raidutil support will function again?
>
> Thanx in advance for reading this sermon :)
>
> Cheers,
> Peter.

uh, anyone.... ?