From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 9 22:08:13 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA812106564A for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 22:08:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: from kuller.raad.tartu.ee (kuller.raad.tartu.ee [213.184.43.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 702548FC12 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 22:08:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kuller.raad.tartu.ee (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kuller.raad.tartu.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DFE33982C for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:08:12 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at post.raad.tartu.ee Received: from kuller.raad.tartu.ee ([127.0.0.1]) by kuller.raad.tartu.ee (kuller.raad.tartu.ee [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id sgMRxELmcdo2 for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:08:11 +0200 (EET) Received: by kuller.raad.tartu.ee (Postfix, from userid 80) id E032D39828; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:08:10 +0200 (EET) Received: from 213-35-169-23-dsl.trt.estpak.ee (213-35-169-23-dsl.trt.estpak.ee [213.35.169.23]) by webmail.raad.tartu.ee (Horde Framework) with HTTP; Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:08:10 +0200 Message-ID: <20110210000810.13805wi52we1h5wk@webmail.raad.tartu.ee> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:08:10 +0200 From: Toomas Aas To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.3.7) X-Originating-IP: 213.35.169.23 Cc: Subject: Can RAID driver be loaded from loader.conf? 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, 09 Feb 2011 22:08:13 -0000 Hello! I'm preparing for a migration from single SATA disk attached to onboard SATA controller to 3ware 9750-4i RAID system. In preparation, while the system is still running on single disk, I downloaded the latest tws.ko driver from LSI website and added it to loader.conf: tws_load="YES" Further plan is to install the controller and new disks into the system alongside with the existing disk, create partitions on new disk and copy over all the contents using dump and tar. After that remove the existing single disk. Is it safe to assume that the system will boot from RAID if RAID controller driver is loaded from loader.conf, or is it absolutely required to have the RAID driver statically built into the kernel? -- Toomas Aas