AMCC 9000 User Manual

Installing the 3ware Driver on a FreeBSD System that Boots from a Differ-

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Since twa.ko behaves like a SCSI driver, the units that it 

controls are seen as da0, da1 etc.

1

Create the directory /sys/dev/twa

mkdir /sys/dev/twa

2

Copy the 3ware driver source file archive (twa.tgz) to the 
directory you created in step 1. 

3

Unpack the 3ware driver source files. 

cd /sys/dev/twa

tar -xzvf twa.tgz 

4

Change the kernel build infrastructure to include the 3ware 
driver sources.

a

Change to the following directory:

cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf

b

Copy the configuration file to a custom file. For example, if 
the configuration file is GENERIC, type

cp GENERIC custom

c

Edit the custom file and add the lines shown below under 
RAID controllers.

device twa # 3ware Escalade 9000 series

d

Save the file.

e

Change to the following directory: 

cd /sys/conf

f

Edit the file “files.i386” and add the lines shown below

dev/twa/tw_cl_fwimg.c optional 

twa

dev/twa/w_cl_init.c

optional twa

dev/twa/tw_cl_intr.c

optional twa

dev/twa/tw_cl_io.c

optional twa

dev/twa/tw_cl_misc.c

optional twa

dev/twa/tw_osl_cam.c

optional twa

dev/twa/tw_osl_freebsd.c

optional twa

g

Save the file.