AMCC 9000 User Manual
Driver Installation Under FreeBSD
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3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide
Obtaining 3ware FreeBSD Drivers
FreeBSD 4.10 and later have 9.xxx driver support built in. No
driver installation is required.
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.
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.
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
the 3ware CD-ROM, at
/packages/drivers/freebsd/
<OS version>
and
/packages/drivers/freebsd/src/
<OS version>
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).
web site (http://www.3ware.com).
FreeBSD installation CD-ROM or diskette
Installing the Driver While Installing
FreeBSD on the 3ware RAID Controller
Note:
Some versions of FreeBSD cannot boot to arrays
larger than 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.
than 1 TByte, check to make sure that the version of
FreeBSD you have supports it.