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Updating the 3ware Driver Under FreeBSD, Viewing Battery Information

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Viewing Battery Information 8 If you are using lilo, use lilo to update to the boot loader. You should see a printout of kernels that are able to boot on this system after running lilo. 9 Reboot. The driver is now updated. 10 If you skipped from step 5 above, stop the current driver module, if loaded: rmmod 3w-9xxx 11 Load the new driver module: modprobe 3w-9xxx Updating the 3ware Driver Under FreeBSD 1 Download and extract the driver, as described on page 132. 2 Backup any critical data prior to updating the 3ware driver. 3 Change the directory to the location with the extracted driver. 4 Copy the files to the appropriate directory. For FreeBSD 4.x, copy the driver into /modules For FreeBSD 5.x, copy the driver into /boot/kernel. 5 Load the driver kldload twa.ko If units are present, you should see unit information in the system log (usually, /var/log/messages). 6 If you wish to load the driver automatically every time the system is rebooted, add the line 'twa_load="YES"' to the file /boot/loader.conf Viewing Battery Information The Battery Backup Unit (BBU) is an add-on card that can be attached to a 3ware 9000 RAID controller to supply power from a battery pack in the event of a system power loss. This allows the controller to use write-caching for optimal performance and to preserve data in the event of a system power failure. When fully charged, the battery preserves the contents of the cache www.3ware.com 147

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www.3ware.com
147
8
If you are using lilo, use lilo to update to the boot loader.
You should see a printout of kernels that are able to boot on this system
after running lilo.
9
Reboot.
The driver is now updated.
10
If you skipped from step 5 above, stop the current driver module, if
loaded:
rmmod 3w-9xxx
11
Load the new driver module:
modprobe 3w-9xxx
Updating the 3ware Driver Under FreeBSD
1
Download and extract the driver, as described on page 132.
2
Backup any critical data prior to updating the 3ware driver.
3
Change the directory to the location with the extracted driver.
4
Copy the files to the appropriate directory.
For FreeBSD 4.x, copy the driver into
/modules
For FreeBSD 5.x, copy the driver into
/boot/kernel.
5
Load the driver
kldload twa.ko
If units are present, you should see unit information in the system
log (usually,
/var/log/messages
).
6
If you wish to load the driver automatically every time
the system is rebooted,
add the line
'twa_load="YES"'
to the
file
/boot/loader.conf
Viewing Battery Information
The Battery Backup Unit (BBU) is an add-on card that can be attached to a
3ware 9000 RAID controller to supply power from a battery pack in the event
of a system power loss. This allows the controller to use write-caching for
optimal performance and to preserve data in the event of a system power
failure. When fully charged, the battery preserves the contents of the cache