From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 17:52:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB5816A4A7 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:52:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@tomjudge.com) Received: from s200aog10.obsmtp.com (s200aog10.obsmtp.com [207.126.144.124]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77BFF13C44C for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:52:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@tomjudge.com) Received: from source ([217.206.187.80]) by eu1sys200aob010.postini.com ([207.126.147.11]) with SMTP; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:52:29 UTC Received: from [10.0.0.79] (bwb.mintel.co.uk [10.0.0.79]) by rodney.mintel.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DF5318144E; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:32:16 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <459BE866.8010400@tomjudge.com> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:31:18 +0000 From: Tom Judge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060922) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" References: <20070103024752.J35175@prime.gushi.org> In-Reply-To: <20070103024752.J35175@prime.gushi.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:52:31 -0000 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