www.3ware.com 73FreeBSD InstallationNote: Installing FreeBSD on a system with an old driver can causea system to become unstable. For additional information, see theRelease Notes on the 3ware website, and the Knowledgebase in theSupport section of the 3ware website at http://www.3ware.com.Note: The instructions in this chapter assume that you have alreadyinstalled the 3ware Escalade controller and configured your diskarrays. If you have not yet done so, follow the instructions in the3ware Hardware Installation chapter and the 3ware Disk ArrayConfiguration Utility chapter.A drive or array managed by the 3ware Escalade controller may be configuredto be your system’s boot device. Or, you can use another device as your bootdevice, such as a disk attached to the motherboard.This chapter provides step-by-step instructions for both situations:■ Installing the 3ware driver and FreeBSD on a new drive or array(page 74).■ Installing the 3ware driver on a system that boots FreeBSD from adifferent device (page 75).You will also find instructions for compiling the 3ware driver from the sourcefiles.Note: 3DM does not work under FreeBSD, however you can usethe 3ware CLI (Command Line Interface), available from the3ware website at http://www.3ware.com/support/download.asp.
