3Ware 9500S-12MI Installation Guide - Page 96
Obtaining 3ware FreeBSD Drivers, Materials Required
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Driver Installation Under FreeBSD Obtaining 3ware FreeBSD Drivers FreeBSD 4.10 and later have 9.xxx driver support built in. No 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. 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. Materials Required 3ware driver The driver and the corresponding source files can be found on the 3ware CD-ROM, at /packages/drivers/freebsd/ and /packages/drivers/freebsd/src/ 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). 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. 88 3ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide