From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 10 17:21:30 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDD2716A403 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:21:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pgiessel@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1494813C441 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:21:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pgiessel@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (webmail017-S [10.13.128.17]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout09/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id l0AGt403010373; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:55:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from webmail017 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mac.com (8.13.8/webmail017/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id l0AGt2ks014826; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:55:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:55:02 -0800 From: Peter Giessel To: "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" Message-ID: in-reply-to: <20070103153916.S52719@prime.gushi.org> references: <20070103024752.J35175@prime.gushi.org> <20070103123155.V52719@prime.gushi.org> <200701031418.13125.lists@jnielsen.net> <200701031423.17415.lists@jnielsen.net> <20070103153916.S52719@prime.gushi.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: 158.145.111.202 Received: from [158.145.111.202] from webmail.mac.com with HTTP; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:55:02 -0800 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-Brightmail-scanned: yes Cc: questions@freebsd.org, John Nielsen Subject: Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:21:30 -0000 On Wednesday, January 10, 2007, at 01:22AM, "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? > >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. When I was dealing with this issue on my own server, the solution I used (which may or may not work for you) is that I took a cheep old IDE drive and plugged it into the built in IDE controller on my motherboard. I installed to and booted off this drive, installed the updated .ko to the IDE drive's installation. Now the 9550's arrays showed up, so I used dump/restore to move the working installation onto the 9550's partitions, shutdown, pulled the IDE drive out, and booted off the 9550's partitions and all was well. Like I say, it may or may not work for you depending on if you have an IDE controller someplace or an empty PCI slot that you could use to set things up with. hth.