Obtaining 3Ware Freebsd Drivers; Materials Required - AMCC 3ware Installation Manual

Driver Installation Under FreeBSD

Obtaining 3ware FreeBSD Drivers

FreeBSD 4.10 and later have 9.xxx driver support built in. No
driver installation is required.
If you are using FreeBSD 4.8 or 4.9, you will need to install the
3ware FreeBSD driver as described below.
The 3ware software CD-ROM that came with the 3ware RAID
controller includes compiled and tested drivers for FreeBSD 4.8
and 4.9. To see if a more recent driver is available, please see the
3ware web site.

Materials Required

3ware driver
The driver and the corresponding source files can be found on
the 3ware CD-ROM, at
/packages/drivers/freebsd/
and
/packages/drivers/freebsd/src/
where OS version is either 4.x or 5.x
You can also download the FreeBSD driver from the 3ware
web site (http://www.3ware.com).
FreeBSD installation CD-ROM or diskette
Installing the Driver While Installing
FreeBSD on the 3ware RAID Controller
Some versions of FreeBSD cannot boot to arrays larger than
Note:
1 TByte. If you want to create an array larger than 1 TByte, check
to make sure that the version of FreeBSD you have supports it.
88 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide
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