
Driver Installation Under FreeBSD
Obtaining 3ware FreeBSD Drivers
FreeBSD 4.10 and later have 9.xxx driver support built in. No driver installation is required.
If you are using FreeBSD 4.8 or 4.9, you will need to install the 3ware FreeBSD driver as described below.
The 3ware software
Materials Required
3ware driver
The driver and the corresponding source files can be found on the 3ware
/packages/drivers/freebsd/<OS version> and
/packages/drivers/freebsd/src/<OS version> where OS version is either 4.x or 5.x
You can also download the FreeBSD driver from the 3ware web site (http://www.3ware.com).
FreeBSD installation
Installing the Driver While Installing FreeBSD on the 3ware RAID Controller
Note: Some versions of FreeBSD cannot boot to arrays larger than 1 TByte. If you want to create an array larger than 1 TByte, check to make sure that the version of FreeBSD you have supports it.
883ware 9000 Series Serial ATA RAID Controller Installation Guide