installing adaptic raid command line utility arcconf on debian

[schluri]

Hi there.

I'm running debian etch 64bit on my server which is using an
ICP (that's adaptec) raid controller (ICP vortex 9014RO). i didn't know that adaptec does not support debian (just suse and redhat).
i want to run a command line tool to check the raid status.
along with the raid controller came the arcconf-utility from adaptec
as .rpm-file which is not suitable for debian. i tried to install it with
alien but all i got was an error-message "current build architecture amd64 does not appear in package's list (i386)" although it was the 64bit-package.

does anyone have experience with installing arcconf on debian or another
alternative solution to my problem?
(btw. cat /proc/scsi/scsi does not provide the status information i need.)

thank you for any little help,
Martin.

[falko]

Is arcconf available as an rpm only? No source code, deb, ...?

[schluri]

the adaptec customer service told me the source code is not available and debian is not supported.

[falko]

all i got was an error-message "current build architecture amd64 does not appear in package's list (i386)" although it was the 64bit-package.

What's the output of uname -a, and what's in /etc/apt/sources.list?

[Lazarus1331]

I used this guide for Ubuntu(fyi - Ubuntu is based on debian core) which worked for me:

http://linux.adaptec.com/2007/11/15/how-do-i-get-adaptec-storage-manager-to-work-with-ubuntu-710/

I needed to run: apt-get install libstdc++5
before it would run properly.