User guide
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- About this User Guide
- Introducing the 3ware® SATA RAID Controller
- Getting Started with Your 3ware RAID Controller
- First-Time RAID Configuration Using 3BM
- Driver Installation
- Driver Installation Under Windows
- Driver Installation Under Linux
- Obtaining 3ware Linux Drivers
- Driver Installation Under Red Hat Linux or Fedora Core 5
- Materials required
- Creating a Red Hat Linux Driver Diskette
- Installing the 3ware Kernel Driver Module while Installing Red Hat Linux on a New Unit
- Installing the 3ware Kernel Driver Module on a Red Hat or Fedora Core Linux System that Boots From a Different Device
- About Variables In the Kernel Driver Module Installation Instructions
- Driver Installation Under SuSE Linux
- Compiling a 3ware Driver for Linux
- Driver Installation Under FreeBSD
- 3ware BIOS Manager 2 (3BM 2) Introduction
- 3DM 2 (3ware Disk Manager) Introduction
- Configuring Your Controller
- Configuring Units
- Configuring a New Unit
- Creating a Hot Spare
- Naming a Unit
- Setting Unit Policies
- Changing An Existing Configuration by Migrating
- Deleting a Unit
- Removing a Unit
- Moving a Unit from One Controller to Another
- Adding a Drive
- Removing a Drive
- Rescanning the Controller
- Maintaining Units
- Checking Unit and Drive Status through 3DM
- About Degraded Units
- About Inoperable Units
- Alarms, Errors, and Other Events
- Background Tasks
- Scheduling Background Tasks
- Locating a Drive by Blinking Its LED
- Maintaining Your Controller
- Determining the Current Version of Your 3ware Driver
- Updating the Firmware and Driver
- Downloading the Driver and Firmware
- Updating the Firmware Through 3DM 2
- 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 3ware Driver Under FreeBSD
- Updating the Firmware Under Linux and FreeBSD
- Viewing Battery Information
- Testing Battery Capacity
- 3DM 2 Reference
- Troubleshooting
- Appendices
- Index
Updating the Firmware and Driver
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11 Stop the current driver module, if loaded:
rmmod 3w-9xxx
12 Load the new driver module:
modprobe 3w-9xxx
If the new driver fails to load properly, confirm that you used correct driver. If
your kernel or SuSE version is not supported, you will need to compile your
own driver. For more information, see knowledgebase article 14546 (http://
www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14546).
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 “Downloading the
Driver and Firmware” on page 165.
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
Backup your original driver before updating in case you need to revert back to it.
However, you will not be able to revert back to the original driver if you are booting
from that unit.