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FreeBSD Driver Support
1 - Overview
The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and
use RocketRAID 26xx Controller on a FreeBSD system.
2 - Installing FreeBSD on RocketRAID 26xx Controller
If you would like to install FreeBSD onto drives attached to RocketRAID 26xx
controller, please perform the following operations:
Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation
After you attach your hard disks to RR26xx controller, you can use RR26xx BIOS
Setting Utility to configure your hard disks as RAID arrays, or just use them as single
disks.
Note: If you have other SCSI adapters installed, you must make sure the RR26xx
controller BIOS will be loaded firstly. If not, try to move it to another PCI slot.
Otherwise you may be unable to boot up your system.
Step 2 Check System BIOS Settings
In your system BIOS SETUP menu, change Boot Sequence in such a way that the
system will first boot from CDROM, next from and then from floppy drive, and then
from SCSI. Refer to your BIOS manual to see how to set boot sequence.
If your BIOS settings do not support such a boot sequence, you can first set it to
boot from CDROM. After you finish installation, set SCSI as the first boot device to
boot up the system.
Step 3 Prepare the Driver Diskette
If you are installing FreeBSD, you must prepare a driver disk for RR26xx before
installation.
First obtain the driver diskette image file, freebsd.img.
On a DOS or Windows system, you can make the boot diskette using rawrite.exe. It
can be found on the FreeBSD CD (under \tools). Just run it under a command window
and follow its prompt.
On a FreeBSD system, you can use the "dd" command to make the driver diskette. For
example, Insert a floppy disk into the floppy drive and type the following command if
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