3DM 2 Online Help

Updating the 3ware Driver Under FreeBSD
The following steps describe how to update the 3ware driver under FreeBSD.
To update the 3ware driver under FreeBSD

1 | Download and extract the driver, as described under Updating the Driver and Firmware.

2 | Backup any critical data prior to updating the 3ware driver.

3 | Change the directory to the location with the extracted driver.

4 | Copy the files to the appropriate directory.

For FreeBSD 4.x, copy the driver into /modules
For FreeBSD 5.x and 6.x, copy the driver into /boot/kernel.

5 | Load the driver

kldload twa.ko
If units are present, you should see unit information in the system log (usually, /var/log/messages).

6 | If you wish to load the driver automatically every time the system is rebooted, add the line 'twa_load="YES"' to the file /boot/loader.conf

Related Topics
  Updating the 3ware Driver and Firmware Under Windows
  Using the Update Utility With Multiple Controllers
  Updating the 3ware Driver Under Windows XP
  Updating the 3ware Driver Under Red Hat or Fedora Core
  Updating the 3ware Driver Under SuSE
  Updating the Firmware Under Linux and FreeBSD

www.3ware.com
1-408-542-8800
1-800-840-6055

Copyright AMCC 2004-2006
To contact Support, log in at https://www.3ware.com