Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-13 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:01:48PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: yOn Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote: 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

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-13 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:01:48PM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: yOn Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote: 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

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-11 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
yOn Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote: 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

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-11 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Peter Giessel wrote: On Wednesday, January 10, 2007, at 01:22AM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
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

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-10 Thread 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

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote: 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

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Dimitar Vasilev wrote: Dan, comment out the twa lines in the kernel. Rebuild it and include the new modules. should be easy. the module in the kernel it's conflicting with is on an INSTALL CD. But I don't think I'll have the namespace conflicts with the NEW module. -Dan

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-10 Thread Dimitar Vasilev
Dan, comment out the twa lines in the kernel. Rebuild it and include the new modules. should be easy. -- Димитър Василев Dimitar Vassilev GnuPG key ID: 0x4B8DB525 Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint: D88A 3B92 DED5 917E 341E D62F 8C51 5FC4 4B8D B525

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-10 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Peter Giessel wrote: On Wednesday, January 10, 2007, at 01:22AM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Giessel
On Wednesday, January 10, 2007, at 01:22AM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-10 Thread Peter Giessel
On Wednesday, January 10, 2007, at 01:22AM, Dan Mahoney, System Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-03 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
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 don't think you need a driver - it's already there. apropos 3ware twa(4)-

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-03 Thread perryh
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. Any possibility of using a USB floppy drive? 3) Adding the kldload command to the emergency holographic shell (I was

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-03 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 01:56, 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

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-03 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Any possibility of using a USB floppy drive? Will the BSD installer

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-03 Thread bobmc
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Any possibility of using a USB floppy

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-03 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: 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 don't think you need a

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-03 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Tom Judge wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: 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) This was the 9650, actually. -Dan -- It would

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-03 Thread Tom Judge
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:

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-03 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, John Nielsen wrote: 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

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 14:18, John Nielsen wrote: On Wednesday 03 January 2007 12:34, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey all, I have a new system with NO FLOPPY CONTROLLER and a 3ware 9550 card.

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-03 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 12:34, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: 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

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
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?)

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-03 Thread 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

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:59 PM 1/3/2007, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: 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