Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

[Erik Trulsson]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 05:24:26AM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, John Nielsen wrote:
> 
> Apologies for top-posting.
> 
> I've made some progress with this, but as I suspected, I'm screwed on 
> "namespace collision".  I.e. I am unable to load a version of twa.ko that 
> supports my 3ware card because a previous version of twa.ko that does not 
> support it is already in the generic kernel.  Changing the name of the 
> loadable doesn't help, either.
> 
> It looks like I might have to make my own release, and my own ISO, using 
> the driver source from the 3ware site.
> 
> Does anyone have an easier way of doing this?

Might some of the following information from 3ware be of help?

http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15003
http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14850


> 
> I've already emailed Scott Long asking about the possibility of the 
> inclusion of the new twa driver in the next FreeBSD, but I fear we're too 
> far down the release process, so it could be a YEAR before there's a 
> RELEASE that supports it.
> 
> -Dan
> 
> >>You were on the right track with the emergency shell, but the "Fixit" mode
> >>(now included on disk 1 for your convenience) gives you a lot more
> >>flexibility (inclusion of "ls" is just the start!). Have you tried
> >>something like this?
> >>
> >>1) Boot to complete install CD
> >>2) Go into "Fixit" mode (not just the emergency shell)
> >>3) # sysctl kern.module_path="/dist/boot/kernel"
> >>4) # kldload twa
> >>5) # exit
> >>6) proceed with installation
> >>
> >>This shouldn't be necessary though, since twa is included in GENERIC for
> >>both FreeBSD 6.1 and 6.2 (did you say what version you were trying to
> >>install?).
> >>
> >>Now, if your controller is too new to be included in the shipping version
> >>of twa then that's another matter. If you have a binary kernel module that
> >>uses a different driver name from the vendor you could use the same 
> >>general
> >>approach, but you'd want to configure your network interface and set up
> >>your NFS mount prior to step 3, and include the appropriate NFS path in 
> >>the
> >>sysctl command in step 3.
> >
> >Forgot to mention you'd also need to manually copy the vendor driver and
> >modify /boot/loader.conf on the newly installed system so it could actually
> >boot.. you could easily take care of that from the fixit mode shell after 
> >the
> >installation, though.
> >
> 



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