From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 19 17:25:14 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8586316A41B for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:25:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dd@emeraldcityeg.com) Received: from mail.justlinuxhosting.com (mail.justlinuxhosting.com [198.107.153.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 670F813C465 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:25:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dd@emeraldcityeg.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.justlinuxhosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E47EB141975 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:06:13 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at justlinuxhosting.com Received: from mail.justlinuxhosting.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (curtain.justlinuxhosting.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id AWfqMIIDPLgA for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:06:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.178] (204.11.227.123.static.etheric.net [204.11.227.123]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: dd@emeraldcityeg.com) by mail.justlinuxhosting.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26BD71418B4 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:06:08 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <85AFE2F9-33F6-40E8-B760-990970B7A791@emeraldcityeg.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: ECEG / Daniel Duerr Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:06:06 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Cc: Subject: twa driver needs updating X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:25:14 -0000 Hi, Pardon me if I seem ignorant here but I am new to the list and procedures of Freebsd... I've recently purchased a bunch of new supermicro servers with 3ware 9650 SATA RAID controllers in them. The freebsd 6.2 install is painstaking because the driver source in Freebsd is not current with the latest twa driver source from 3Ware. As a result, I have had to build custom install CD's with the driver on them so that I can manually load them in the boot loader. It's a pain. I don't know if the same issue exists in Freebsd 7 but some of us are not going to want to move our production environments to Freebsd 7 for a while... What is the procedure for getting the latest twa source patched into the Freebsd 6.2 source tree? It's freely available from 3Ware here and takes all of 45 seconds to patch in: http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15003 Thanks, Daniel