Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?
Tom Judge
tom at tomjudge.com
Wed Jan 3 09:52:31 PST 2007
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I have a new system with NO FLOPPY CONTROLLER and a 3ware 9550 card.
> It's a 1u system -- sticking extra things into PCI slots as a workaround
> is likely to be impossible.
>
> I found this document on how to get it installed, in theory:
>
> http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=14850
>
> But with no floppy, this is probably going to involve either
> transplanting the card (and drive array) to another machine JUST to do
> the install (translated: a serious pain in the ass).
>
> If someone could explain why any of the following aren't possible, I'd
> love to know:
>
> 1) Making this driver part of the boot-time probe. I can understand not
> including every SOUND CARD and MULTI-PORT SERIAL CARD in the generic
> kernel, but could we at least include the rest of the STORAGE modules?
>
> 2) Giving the ability to load a kernel module from somewhere else (an
> http/ftp url, maybe?)
>
> 3) Adding the kldload command to the emergency holographic shell (I was
> able to do an NFS mount from within it, but had no way to load the driver).
>
> 4) Allowing non-standard modules to reside on the CD, instead of loading
> from floppy (i.e. I see there's a twa module in the base system, why
> aren't the .ko's sitting around easily-accessible for sysinstall?)
>
> If I'm missing some really obvious way of doing this, please let me know.
>
Hi Dan,
I have installed FreeBSD on several systems with 9550 controllers. The
driver is available in sysinstall from 6.1 Release. (I installed from a
6.1 Release CD)
Hope that helps
Tom
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