3ware 9550sx driver for freeBSD 6 amd64 ??

[Vinod Kashyap]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: michael meltzer [mailto:michaelmeltzer at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 6:32 PM
> To: Vinod Kashyap; ke.han; freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: 3ware 9550sx driver for freeBSD 6 amd64 ??
> 
> Why make it hard on people??? Just add it to GENERIC and 
> maybe turn on automatic firmware download also?

It's the same driver (twa) for SX, and it's already in GENERIC.
Automatic firmware download is disabled because it will make
the driver too big to fit into installation floppies.

> Their is nothing so flustering than not being able to load 
> due to raid card. Step one for some people is try a different 
> OS. and they might not know enough to even check the support page -mjm
> 

Whenever a new controller series is released, and it's not supported
by the driver in the kernel, there is going to be this problem.

> BTW a quick work around is take one on the drives off the 
> raid(or a spare) and use the motherboard connection, load the 
> OS, build the driver, boot the raid and copy the OS over to 
> it and boot into it, the disk goes back onto the raid as HOT 
> spare. PITA I know.
> 
> PSS. bad user expreance people - Vinod....
> 
> --- Vinod Kashyap <vkashyap at amcc.com> wrote:
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org 
> > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org] On
> > Behalf Of ke.han
> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 5:24 AM
> > > To: freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> > > Subject: 3ware 9550sx driver for freeBSD 6 amd64
> > ??
> > > 
> > > Does anyone have the latest compiled driver,
> > twa.ko, for the
> > > 9550SX on freeBSD 6 amd64?
> > > I have a problem where I cannot compile the driver
> > without
> > > installing freeBSD 6 to my new server and cannot
> > install to
> > > the server without the compiled driver.
> > > The source can be downloaded from a link at the
> > end of this page:
> > > http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14546
> > > 
> > 
> > The driver integrated into FreeBSD 6.0 does not know about SX 
> > controllers.
> > So, you cannot install FreeBSD 6.0 on SX.  For installation 
> purposes, 
> > there are plans to provide an SX driver for 6.0 (and 5.4) 
> which can be 
> > loaded from a floppy.
> >
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