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RocketRAID 2220 SATAII Host Adapter

User’s Guide

Revision: 1.0

Date: March 2005

HighPoint Technologies, Inc.

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Page 1: ...1 RocketRAID 2220 SATAII Host Adapter User s Guide Revision 1 0 Date March 2005 HighPoint Technologies Inc...

Page 2: ...not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective owners Backup your important data before using HighPoint s products and use at your own risk In no event shall HighPoint be liable for an...

Page 3: ...s 10 3 Installing the RocketRAID 2220 Host Adapter 11 4 Verifying Installation 12 5 Single RAID Cross Adapter 12 ROCKETRAID 2220 BIOS UTILITY 13 RocketRAID 2220 BIOS Utility 14 1 BIOS Command Overview...

Page 4: ...E ORLM 23 8 Misc Array Device Options 24 9 Managing Events 25 10 Configuring Remote Systems 29 11 Configuring Users and Privileges 32 LINUX DRIVER SUPPORT 34 Fedora Core 3 Linux installation Overview...

Page 5: ...host adapter Supports up to 8 SATA SATAII hard disk drives PCI X 64 bit 66 100 133MHz PCI bus 64 bit LBA support for drive capacity over 2TB Supports RAID 0 1 5 10 and JBOD Single RAID cross adapter...

Page 6: ...JBOD do not need to be initialized When you create a redundant array using the RocketRAID 2220 controller s BIOS Configuration Utility it will create the array in un initialized state The initializati...

Page 7: ...0 supports both Online Capacity Expansion OCE and Online RAID Level Migration ORLM Both features are supported by a single function an array can be transformed from one RAID level to another RAID leve...

Page 8: ...8 RocketRAID 2220 Hardware Description Installation...

Page 9: ...sed in greater detail in the LED Connection section page 10 and in a separate document the RocketRAID 2220 LED guide which discusses LED installation for specific server chassis and will be available...

Page 10: ...definitions for LED CON2 disk activity and CON3 disk failure CON1is not utilized by the RocketRAID 2220 CON2 Hard Disk Activity D1 through D8 CON3 Hard Disk Failure D1 through D8 RocketRAID 2220 LED...

Page 11: ...AID 2220 into the PCI slot and secure the bracket to the system chassis 4 After installing the adapter attach hard disks to the RocketRAID 2220using an SATA data cable SATA cables have universal conne...

Page 12: ...be assigned to a single RAID array and these disks can be attached to as many as four separate RocketRAID 2220 host adapters This feature is referred to as Single RAID Cross Adapter support Each Rock...

Page 13: ...13 RocketRAID 2220 BIOS Utility...

Page 14: ...y Warning This command may result in permanent data loss it should only be used if data stored on the target array is no longer relevant or has been backed up to an alternate storage device Add Remove...

Page 15: ...disks can be utilized to create RAID arrays To create an array 1 Use the arrow keys to highlight the Create command and press ENTER to open the Create Menu 2 Use the arrow keys to select the appropria...

Page 16: ...Spare Disks This command is used to assign a hard disk to act as a Spare Disk Spare Disks are used to automatically rebuild Redundant RAID arrays RAID 1 5 10 in the case of disk failure To set a hard...

Page 17: ...17 RocketRAID 2220 Driver and Software Installation Microsoft Windows 2000 XP 2003 Server...

Page 18: ...the Driver Installation diskette into the system s floppy drive 3 At the Hardware Wizard screen select the floppy drive as the source then click the Next button Select the Win2003 folder then click t...

Page 19: ...window will display several driver options Please select the RocketRAID 2220 Controller for the corresponding operating system and press ENTER to continue 1 Installing the RAID Management Console Int...

Page 20: ...uration switch between available remote systems User Management Add or remove users edit user profiles Password change the password Exit exit the utility interface Management RAID Management Create de...

Page 21: ...Foreground If you are creating RAID5 you will be asked to specify a cache policy Write back when the write back setting is selected all write requests sent to the array are cached This will result in...

Page 22: ...to 16 hard disks andthese disks can be attached to as many as 4 separate RocketRAID 2220 adapters Cross Adapter arrays are created in the same manner as standard arrays The Creation menu will display...

Page 23: ...hard disk in the case of RAID1 and a paired set of disks for RAID 10 For RAID 5 the verify process calculates RAID5 parity and compares it to the parity data on the array Verification checks each sec...

Page 24: ...should always stop the transform progress from the RAID Management software 5 An unexpected system crash may result in data loss while performing OCE ORLM on an array We strongly recommend backing up...

Page 25: ...ll events that have occurred on any host adapter under its control Viewing Logged Events To view logged events 1 Highlight the View menu and select the Event View option 2 In the Event View window you...

Page 26: ...ghlight the Management menu and select the Event Notification function 2 Select one recipient from the main window 3 Click the Test button on the toolbar or select the Test command from the Operation...

Page 27: ...ote system To view detailed information about a specific task highlight and Double click the task s name Add a Scheduled Task This command is used to add a Scheduled task for the selected remote syste...

Page 28: ...k type and the array that you want to verify or rebuild then click Next 1 Enter a name for the task 2 Configure the frequency for the task 3 Set the duration for the task 4 Check the Enable the task o...

Page 29: ...where the RAID host adapter is physically installed This type of system is referred to as a remote system Note What the software classifies as a remote system may not always be an actual remote comput...

Page 30: ...system Delete a Connection This command deletes a remote system from the connection list To delete a connection 1 Highlight the File menu and select the Remote Control function 2 Highlight the system...

Page 31: ...light the system you want to disconnect from 3 Select the Disconnect command from the Operation menu System Configuration This function is used to modify the service configuration on a remote system T...

Page 32: ...different privileges levels for the purpose of RAID management Users can be assigned to each individual Remote System controlled by the RAID Management Console Highlight the File menu and select the...

Page 33: ...password allows a user to log on to a remote system and utilize the RAID Management Console To set password for a user 1 Select the target user ID from the user list displayed in the User Management...

Page 34: ...34 Linux Driver Support...

Page 35: ...Windows system a Fedora driver diskette can be generated using rawrite exe This utility is included on the Fedora Linux CD under dosutils Run rawrite exe using a commandprompt window and follow the d...

Page 36: ...evice Example A RAID array has been configured between several hard disks This array will be registered to the system as device dev sda To create a partition on this array which will listed as dev sda...

Page 37: ...when using a system installed to Rocket RAID 2220 controller for example the driver module in t he initrd file should be updated using the mkinitrdcommand or extract the initrd file and replace the dr...

Page 38: ...rise Linux 1 Start installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux by booting from the installation CD 2 At the Welcome to Red Hat Linux installation screen a prompt labeled boot will appear at the bottom of the...

Page 39: ...s array will be registered to the system as device dev sda To create a partition on this array which will listed as dev sda1 use the fdisk dev sda command Next use the mkfs dev sda1 command to setup a...

Page 40: ...odule In following steps we assume it has been copied to tmp hptmv 6 o Replace hptmv 6 o in the boot RAM disk image boot initrd xxx img where xxx is the kernel version Example 2 4 21 4 EL for Red Hat...

Page 41: ...the SLES Linux CD under dosutils Run rawrite using a command prompt window and follow the directions it provides On a Linux system use the dd command to generate a boot diskette Insert a floppy disk...

Page 42: ...ile from the file linux suse arch version install update tar gz from the driver disk using the following commands mount dev fd0 media floppy cd tar xfz media floppy linux suse i386 sles9 install updat...

Page 43: ...up To install the module type in the following commands first change to the directory where the proper hptmv6 ko file is located 1 Edit the file etc sysconfig kernel and add the hptmv6 module to the l...

Page 44: ...a disk or array attached to the RocketRAID 2220 you need to run the mkinitrd command to update the initrd file If you are using the lilo boot loader run lilo again lilo 5 Uninstalling the Driver To u...

Page 45: ...OS driver and RAID Software have been installed for the RocketRAID 2220 Updates are available from our website Prepare a list of the computer system s hardware and software motherboard CPU memory othe...

Page 46: ...correct the interference by one or more of the following measures l Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna l Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver l Connect the equipment int...

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