Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
Hey all,
I have a new system with NO FLOPPY CONTROLLER and a 3ware 9550 card.
It's a 1u system -- sticking extra things into PCI slots as a workaround
is likely to be impossible.
I found this document on how to get it installed, in theory:
http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=14850
But with no floppy, this is probably going to involve either
transplanting the card (and drive array) to another machine JUST to do
the install (translated: a serious pain in the ass).
If someone could explain why any of the following aren't possible, I'd
love to know:
1) Making this driver part of the boot-time probe. I can understand not
including every SOUND CARD and MULTI-PORT SERIAL CARD in the generic
kernel, but could we at least include the rest of the STORAGE modules?
2) Giving the ability to load a kernel module from somewhere else (an
http/ftp url, maybe?)
3) Adding the kldload command to the emergency holographic shell (I was
able to do an NFS mount from within it, but had no way to load the driver).
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.
Hi Dan,
I have installed FreeBSD on several systems with 9550 controllers. The
driver is available in sysinstall from 6.1 Release. (I installed from a
6.1 Release CD)
Hope that helps
Tom
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