3Ware 9500S-8MI Installation Guide - Page 97
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Installing the Driver While Installing FreeBSD on the 3ware RAID Controller To install the driver as a module 1 Boot with the FreeBSD CD-ROM or diskette. 2 In the sysinstall menu, select Configure > Load KLD module. Note: Immediately after the OS starts booting from the CD, insert an MS-DOS floppy with the 3ware driver, twa.ko, into the floppy drive. If you do not insert it immediately, sysinstall may fail to recognize the floppy drive. 3 Load the driver from the floppy drive. 4 Run the FreeBSD installation and reboot. For instructions on how to install FreeBSD, see the FreeBSD website, at http://www.freebsd.org/ 5 Remove the floppy disk and the CD. 6 On reboot, escape to the loader menu. Note: Once again, immediately after the OS starts booting, insert an MS-DOS floppy with the 3ware driver, twa.ko, into the floppy drive. If you do not insert it immediately, the loader may fail to recognize the floppy drive. 7 At the loader prompt, run 'lsdev' to make sure the floppy drive has been discovered. 8 Load the driver from the floppy. For example, if the floppy drive is disk0, type load disk0:twa.ko 9 Run 'boot'. The system should now be able to boot. 10 After the system boots up, do the following: a Create a directory for the floppy. mkdir /floppy www.3ware.com 89