Driver Installation Under Freebsd; Obtaining 3Ware Freebsd Drivers - 3Ware 9550SXU-12 User Manual

Driver Installation Under FreeBSD

www.3ware.com
Note:
Before installing the 3ware driver, you must have already installed your
3ware RAID controller in the system. Consult the installation guide that came with
your controller for how to do this. You can download the installation guide from:
http://www.3ware.com/support/userdocs.asp
This section provides details about how to install the driver for your 3ware
RAID controller under FreeBSD and make the units available if you use a
version later than 5.0.
• If the units you have created will be your boot device, you will install the
driver for the controller as you install FreeBSD.
• If the operating system is already installed on a unit connected to another
controller or to the motherboard, you will start FreeBSD and then install
the driver.
This section includes these topics:
•

Obtaining 3ware FreeBSD Drivers

• Creating A FreeBSD Driver Diskette
• Installing the Kernel Driver Module while Installing FreeBSD on a Unit
Managed by a 3ware RAID Controller
• Installing the 3ware Kernel Driver on a FreeBSD System that Boots from
a Different Device
Obtaining 3ware FreeBSD Drivers
3ware drivers can be compiled from source files into the kernel as built-in
drivers or can be modules that are loaded by the operating system. Both
source files and modules are available from 3ware, but modules with current
controller drivers are only available for FreeBSD 6.3 and FreeBSD 7.0.
You can obtain the 3ware RAID controller driver for FreeBSD from one of
these two sources:
•
3ware software CD-ROM
Compiled and tested kernel driver modules
FreeBSD 7.0, located at:
• FreeBSD 6.3 32bit
• FreeBSD 6.3 64bit:
•
FreeBSD 7.0 32bit
•
FreeBSD 7.0 64bit:
Driver Installation Under FreeBSD
. This CD includes:
: packages/drivers/freebsd/6.3/x86
packages/drivers/freebsd/6.3/x86_64
: packages/drivers/freebsd/7.0/x86
packages/drivers/freebsd/7.0/x86_64
for FreeBSD 6.3 and
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