Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

[Dan Mahoney, System Admin]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Mike Tancsa wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 02:56:40 -0500 (EST), in
> sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> What version of FreeBSD are you trying to install ?  I thought 6.2RC2
> would work with this controller

That's the typo.  It's the 9650SE.

-Dan

>
>
> HARDWARE
>     The twa driver supports the following SATA RAID controllers:
>
>     o   AMCC's 3ware 9500S-4LP
>     o   AMCC's 3ware 9500S-8
>     o   AMCC's 3ware 9500S-8MI
>     o   AMCC's 3ware 9500S-12
>     o   AMCC's 3ware 9500S-12MI
>     o   AMCC's 3ware 9500SX-4LP
>     o   AMCC's 3ware 9500SX-8LP
>     o   AMCC's 3ware 9500SX-12
>     o   AMCC's 3ware 9500SX-12MI
>     o   AMCC's 3ware 9500SX-16ML
>     o   AMCC's 3ware 9550SX-4LP
>     o   AMCC's 3ware 9550SX-8LP
>     o   AMCC's 3ware 9550SX-12
>     o   AMCC's 3ware 9550SX-12MI
>     o   AMCC's 3ware 9550SX-16ML
>
> I am running with
>
> da0 at twa0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <AMCC 9550SX-4LP DISK 3.01> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
> da0: 100.000MB/s transfers
> da0: 152566MB (312455168 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 19449C)
>
>
>
> 	---Mike
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