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RocketRAID 174x FreeBSD Installation Guide 

 

 

 

 

RocketRAID 174x SATA Controller 

              FreeBSD Installation Guide 

 

 

 

Version 1.01 

 

Copyright © 2006 HighPoint Technologies, Inc. 

All rights reserved. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last updated on Nov 10, 2006 

Summary of Contents for RocketRAID 174x

Page 1: ...ocketRAID 174x FreeBSD Installation Guide RocketRAID 174x SATA Controller FreeBSD Installation Guide Version 1 01 Copyright 2006 HighPoint Technologies Inc All rights reserved Last updated on Nov 10 2006 ...

Page 2: ...stem BIOS Settings 1 Step 3 Prepare the Driver Diskette 1 Step 4 Install FreeBSD 2 3 Installing RR174x Driver on an Existing System 3 Step 1 Copy the Driver Module 4 Step 2 Test the Driver Module 4 Step 3 Configure System to Automatically Load the Driver 5 Step 4 Configure System to Mount Volumes when Startup 5 4 Updating the Driver 5 5 Installing RAID Management Software 6 6 Uninstalling 6 ...

Page 3: ...BIOS Settings In your system BIOS SETUP menu change Boot Sequence in such a way that the system will first boot from CDROM next from and then from floppy drive and then from SCSI Refer to your BIOS manual to see how to set boot sequence If your BIOS settings do not support such a boot sequence you can first set it to boot from CDROM After you finish installation set SCSI as the first boot device t...

Page 4: ...y other key for command prompt Booting kernel in 9 seconds press SPACE key A prompted label ok will appear at the bottom of the screen 4 Insert RR174x driver diskette into floppy drive now Type in load diskx rr174x x x without quotation mark and then press enter for FreeBSD 4 3 RELEASE ok load kernel ok load disk1 rr174x 4 3 ko for FreeBSD 4 4 RELEASE ok load kernel ok load disk1 rr174x 4 4 ko for...

Page 5: ...FreeBSD may not work You can try to disable ACPI in system BIOS or type the command set hint acpi 0 disabled 1 under boot prompt to solve the problem 7 Before exit install an additional step must be taken to copy RR174x driver module to system On the driver disk there is a setup script postinstall which will do this work for you Before you reboot the system press Alt F4 to the command shell and ty...

Page 6: ...nt cp mnt rr174x xxx ko boot kernel rr174x ko umount mnt mdconfig d u md0 Step 2 Test the Driver Module You can test out the module to ensure that it works for your system by load it during system booting If the module has been loaded successfully you should see the RR174x banner and a display screen of the attached drives You can now access the drives as a SCSI device if you have no other SCSI de...

Page 7: ...tem to automatically load the driver type in the following commands echo rr174x_load YES boot defaults loader conf This tells the loader to try loading the RR174x module together with the kernel Now reboot the system RR174x module should be automatically loaded each time system start up Note If FreeBSD you installed is 4 x version you should type the following command to configure your system mkno...

Page 8: ...configure HighPoint RAID Management Software to work with RR174x driver you should setup etc hptcfg to be the driver name echo rr174x etc hptcfg Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents for more information 6 Uninstalling You can only uninstall the driver when your system is not booting from devices attached to RR174x controller Just remove the line rr174x_load YES in boot defa...

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