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Rocket RAID 174x FreeBSD Installation Guide
the RR174x Controller, you can perform the following steps.
Step 1 Copy the Driver Module
If you have made freebsd drivers into a diskette, you can insert the driver diskette to
floppy drive, then using the following commands to copy the driver module:
for FreeBSD 4.x:
# mount –o ro /dev/fd0 /mnt
# cp /mnt/rr174x-xxx.ko /modules/rr174x.ko
# umount /mnt
for FreeBSD 5.x/6.x:
# mount –o ro /dev/fd0 /mnt
# cp /mnt/rr174x-xxx.ko /boot/kernel/rr174x.ko
# umount /mnt
You can also extract the files from .img files directly, without using a floppy diskette:
For FreeBSD 4.x:
# vnconfig vn0c freebsd_xxx.img
# mount /dev/vn0c /mnt
# cp /mnt/rr174x-xxx.ko /modules/rr174x.ko
# vnconfig –du vn0c myfilesystem mount=/mnt
For FreeBSD 5.x/6.x:
# mdconfig –a –t vnode –f freebsd_5.x.img –u 0
# mount /dev/md0 /mnt
# cp /mnt/rr174x-xxx.ko /boot/kernel/rr174x.ko
# umount /mnt
# mdconfig –d –u md0
Step 2 Test the Driver Module
You can test out the module to ensure that it works for your system by load it during
system booting.
If the module has been loaded successfully you should see the RR174x banner and a
display screen of the attached drives. You can now access the drives as a SCSI device (if
you have no other SCSI device, the first device is /dev/da0, then /dev/da1, etc.).
Example
F1
FreeBSD
Default: F1
>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader
boot:
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS driver A: is disk0
BIOS driver C: is disk2
BIOS 636kB/74512kB available memory
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
(mailto:jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com, Sat Apr 21 08:46:19 GMT 2001)
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
/kernel text=0x24f1db data=0x3007ec+0x2062c -
<- For FreeBSD 5.1 and later: select "6" on "Welcome to FreeBSD" screen.
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
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