HighPoint RocketRAID 230 Series User Manual Download Page 1

Page: 1 / 81

RocketRAID 230x

SATAII Host Adapter

User’s Guide

Revision: 1.1

Date: January 2007

HighPoint Technologies, Inc.

Summary of Contents for RocketRAID 230 Series

Page 1: ...RocketRAID 230x SATAII Host Adapter User s Guide Revision 1 1 Date January 2007 HighPointTechnologies Inc...

Page 2: ...ot 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 any...

Page 3: ...230x Host Adapter layout 2 1 2 LED Connections 2 3 3 Installing the RocketRAID Host Adapter 2 6 4 Verifying Installation 2 8 Chapter 3 RocketRAID 230x BIOS Utility RocketRAIDBIOSUtility 1 BIOS Comman...

Page 4: ...ing Events 4 15 10 Configuring Remote Systems 4 19 11 Configuring Users and Privileges 4 23 Chapter 5 Linux Driver Support 1 Fedora Core 6 Linux installation Overview 5 1 2 Red Hat Enterprise 4 Overvi...

Page 5: ...Chapter 1 Introduction Contents of this Chapter About this guide Introducing the RocketRAID 230x Host Adapter Product Features Understanding RAID Concepts and Terminology...

Page 6: ...NAS storage workgroup and web servers video stream ing video editing workstations back up and security systems Product Features 4 Channel PCI Express to SATAII host adapter Upwards compatible with PC...

Page 7: ...s and terminology is commonly used when describing the functions of the RocketRAID 230x Host Adapter cards Disk initialization Initializing a disk writes necessary RAID configuration information to th...

Page 8: ...ata on the array The array is not accessible by the operating system until initialization is complete Backgroundinitialization Background initialization allows the array to be used immediately For RAI...

Page 9: ...gle disk that can be used to automatically rebuild a redundant array in case of drive failure Spare disks may also be members of a RAID array Any available space on these disks may be used to rebuild...

Page 10: ...etRAID 230x Hardware Description Installation Contents of this Chapter RocketRAID230xHardware 1 RocketRAID 230x HostAdapter Layout 2 LED Connections 3 Installing the RocketRAID Host Adapter 4 Verifyin...

Page 11: ...al disk attached to the RocketRAID 2300 These connections are ideal for server chassis that utilize removable drive bays JP3 This jumper can be used to enable or disable the card s alarm BEEP1 The ala...

Page 12: ...two internal SATAII channels SATA3 SATA4 These represent the host adapter s two external SATAII eSATA channels J3 J4 These LED connectors can be used to configure Disk Failure J3 and Disk Activity J4...

Page 13: ...er the speaker emits and audible alarm in the case of disk array failure 2 LED Connections 2 3 LED connection with the backplane or LED light Hard DiskActivity LED HighPoint controllers usually use 5...

Page 14: ...connected please connect the cathode of LBD to Pin 1 2 3 and 4 If the anode of LBD isn t been powered supply please connect it to Pin 5 to achieve Active indication Analogy with above the second group...

Page 15: ...d disk is normal they keep high level 3 3 V If it worked in abnormality for example the hard disk is lost which will change to low level When connected please connect the cathode of LBD to Pin 1 2 3 a...

Page 16: ...nnel 1 and 2 respectively J3 provides LED support for Disk Failure while J4 supports Disk Activity Note As with the RR2300 model these LED connectors were designed for use with SATA and SATAII backpla...

Page 17: ...r installing the adapter attach hard disks to the host adapter using the data cable The RocketRAID 2300 model utilizes standard SATA cables four are included in each retail box This card can support u...

Page 18: ...hassis boot up the system to verify that the hardware is properly recognized 1 Power on the system If the system detects the presence of the adapter the RocketRAID BIOS Utility will be displayed durin...

Page 19: ...r 3 RocketRAID 230x BIOS Utility Contents of this Chapter RocketRAID230xBIOSUtility 1 BIOS Command Overview 2 Creating RAID Arrays 3 Adding Remove Spare Disks 4 Updating the BIOS 5 BIOS Additional Set...

Page 20: ...f RAID related commands These commands are displayed towards the top of the utility s interface Use the arrow keys to scroll through the various commands and the arrows to browse through the correspon...

Page 21: ...rd s BIOS has set the host adapter to function as the system s primary boot device Staggered drive spin up This function is used to enable or disable staggered drive spin up support This setting by de...

Page 22: ...isks Use the arrow keys to highlight the target hard disk s and press ENTER Next press the Y yes key to initialize the selected disk s or N no key to cancel the initialization process Once initialized...

Page 23: ...itional arrays single disks use the keyboard to input the amount of space in GB you wish to set aside for this particular array and press ENTER Note Multiple arrays can be created using the same set o...

Page 24: ...0GB of space out of a grand total of 400GB was assigned to that array In this example 200GB of disk space remains unallocated This unallocated space would allow these disks to be set as spares for a s...

Page 25: ...y 4 Select the Browse the CD option and access the directory provided for the RR230x host adapter 5 Open the BIOS directory and double click the hptflash exe icon This will start the BIOS flash utilit...

Page 26: ...ther operating systems In order to update the BIOS the system must be booted into DOS mode using a DOS boot diskette or CD image 1 Copy the load exe and the bios image file to the bootable floppy disk...

Page 27: ...lash the controller upgrade the BIOS Select Y for yes 6 The utility will display a progress bar during the flash procedure then will attempt verify the update 7 Once complete the system can be reboote...

Page 28: ...the Control H command to access the BIOS menu EBDA Reallocation this function refers to Extended BIOS DataArea Disabling this feature may remedy boot problems associated with motherboards that halt a...

Page 29: ...apter 4 RocketRAID 230x Driver and Software In stallation Microsoft Windows 2000 XP 2003 Server x64 versions of XP 2003 Vista Contents of this Chapter Driver and Software CD Windows Driver Installatio...

Page 30: ...D Management software for a variety of operating systems To create a driver diskette 1 Insert the CD into the system s CD DVD drive The program should start automatically 2 Insert a blank floppy diske...

Page 31: ...RocketRAID 230x Driver and Software Installation 5 Click on the Please Select the Diskette you want to create drop down button and select the appropriate OS from the list 4 2...

Page 32: ...ware Installation 6 Click on the OK button to create the driver diskette To install the RAID software 1 Click on Install RAID Management Software 2 Select the desired software from the drop down menu...

Page 33: ...and select the system s floppy drive generally Disk A Next insert the Driver Installation diskette into the system s floppy drive 3 At the Hardware Wizard screen select the floppy drive as the source...

Page 34: ...cted 3 Next the setup program will prompt for the insertion of the driver diskette Please insert the driver diskette and then press ENTER to continue 4 The next window will display several driver opti...

Page 35: ...te The password and user name fields are case sensitive The first time the software is used make sure to enter the information listed above After successfully logging on the software will ask you to a...

Page 36: ...arrays Device Management check information or change settings for host adapters and hard disks Spare management create and assign spare disks System Notification Set up system notification options Vie...

Page 37: ...the desired RAID level from the drop down list 4 Enter a name for the array using the keyboard this is optional and click the Next button 5 If you are creating a redundant array RAID 1 5 10 select an...

Page 38: ...om the selected disk section and use the button to move it to the available disk section Note The selection sequence is important the order in which the disks are selected will determine the disk sequ...

Page 39: ...edundant RAID arrays in the case of failure To configure spare disks highlight the Management menu and select the Spare Management function The Spare Management window will appear To add a spare disk...

Page 40: ...toolbar or select the Rebuild command from the Operation menu Verifying anArray For a RAID 1 or RAID 10 array the verify process compares the data of one mirror pair with the other single hard disk in...

Page 41: ...ORLM command from the Operation menu 4 The OCE ORLM window will appear 5 The interface is very similar to the Array Creation Wizard interface Select the type of array you wish to change the existing...

Page 42: ...rforming OCE ORLM on an array 8 Misc Array Device Options Device Management The Device Management window provides configuration information about control lers the RocketRAID host adapter channels and...

Page 43: ...ttributes such as chassis temperature readings disk failure and the status of the chassis cooling apparatus cooling fans Note This feature is dependent upon the system chassis this function will not b...

Page 44: ...View menu and select the Event View option 2 In the Event View window you can filer events clear events and save events to a file ConfiguringE mailnotification ToenableE mailnotification 1 Highlight...

Page 45: ...w You can use Modify or Delete button on the toolbar to modify or delete the recipient TotestE mailnotification 1 Highlight the Management menu and select the Event Notification function 2 Select one...

Page 46: ...ist displays all of the tasks assigned to the selected remote system To view detailed information about a specific task highlight and Double click the task s name Add a Scheduled Task This command is...

Page 47: ...Linux Driver Support Select the task type and the array that you want to verify or rebuild then click Next 4 18...

Page 48: ...eduled Task for the selected remote system To delete a Task Schedule 1 Select a task from the Task schedule list 2 Click the Delete button on the toolbar 10 Configuring Remote Systems Then HighPoint R...

Page 49: ...he system address name and port information in the popup window The system address can be a host name or an IP address The default system port is 7402 4 Click OK to finish adding the new connection Mo...

Page 50: ...t from this 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...

Page 51: ...ree to modify the username and password after the connection is established If the connection is successful established the application will retrieve the event logs from the remote system then switch...

Page 52: ...system port value on the service The default value is 7402 Event Port The client software will retrieve events through this port The default value is 7403 The System Port value must differ from the va...

Page 53: ...The user management window lists all users assigned to the selected remote system The current active user will be designated with an icon Add a User This function adds a user account to the connected...

Page 54: ...deleted from the console Set Password The Administrator uses this function to set a user s password the password allows a user to log on to a remote system and utilize the RAID Management Console To s...

Page 55: ...RocketRAID 230x Driver and Software Installation 3 In the popup window assign the privileges for the selected user 4 Click OK to apply your selections 4 26...

Page 56: ...Chapter 5 Linux Driver Support Contents of this Chapter Fedora Core 6 Linux installation Overview Red Hat Enterprise 4 Overview SuSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES installation Overview...

Page 57: ...onto hard disks or RAID arrays attached to RocketRAID host adapter follow the steps outlined below Step 1 Prepare the Driver Diskette The driver is contained in a floppy diskette image file On a DOS o...

Page 58: ...SCSI adapter s BIOS It may be necessary to move the adapter s to another PCI slot Step 1 Obtain the Driver Module Extract the module file from the file modules cgz from the driver disk using the follo...

Page 59: ...the system must be instructed to automatically load the module during bootup To install the module type in the following commands first change to the directory where the proper rr2310_00 ko file is l...

Page 60: ...e and replace the driver module manually 2 If the original driver is installed in the lib modules uname r kernel drivers scsi directory and loaded by the script file Example etc init d hptdriver durin...

Page 61: ...kette can be generated using rawrite exe This utility is included on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD under dosutils Run rawrite using a command prompt window and follow the directions it provides On a...

Page 62: ...mapping order is the same as the order shown in RocketRAID BIOS Setting Utility If no other SCSI adapters are installed the device marked as BOOT or HDD0 will identified as dev sda HDD1 as dev sdb HD...

Page 63: ...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 file system on this partition Use the command mkdir xxxx to create a m...

Page 64: ...line to tell the system to mount dev sda1 to location mnt raid after startup dev sda1 mnt raid ext2 defaults 0 0 4 Updating the Driver If you are not booting from disks attached to RocketRAID host ad...

Page 65: ...all the RAM disk lilo Update rr2310_00 ko in lib modules cp tmp rr2310_00 ko lib modules uname r kernel drivers scsi rr2310_00 ko Reboot your system to allow the new driver take effect 5 Uninstalling...

Page 66: ...BIOS Driver page for the corresponding RocketRAID host adapter To install SLES onto hard disks or RAID arrays attached to RocketRAID host adapter follow the steps outlined below Step 1 Prepare the Dri...

Page 67: ...alled the device marked as BOOT or HDD0 will be identified as dev sda HDD1 as dev sdb HDD2 as dev sdc etc When creating mount points boot must be mounted on dev sda 3 Installing the RocketRAID 230x Dr...

Page 68: ...le file from the file linux suse arch version install update tar gz from the driver disk using the following commands SLES 9 is used as an example mount dev fd0 mnt floppy cd tar xfz mnt floppy linux...

Page 69: ...se the mkfs dev sda1 command to setup a file system on this partition 3 Use the command mkdir xxxx to create a mount point for the RAID array Then mount dev sda1 xxxx in order to access it Note xxxx r...

Page 70: ...4 Updating the Driver To update the driver simply reinstall the driver following the steps in previous section Install RocketRAID driver on an Existing System Note If the driver is loaded in initrd wh...

Page 71: ...reeBSD Driver Support Contents of this Chapter 1 Installing FreeBSD on the RocketRAID 230x Controller 2 Installing the RocketRAID 230x Driver on an Existing System 3 Updating the Driver 4 Uninstalling...

Page 72: ...e FreeBSD CD under tools Run it under a DOS Prompt window and follow it s prompt On a FreeBSD system use the dd command to make the driver diskette For example Insert a floppy disk into the floppy dri...

Page 73: ...e screen 4 Insert the RocketRAID driver diskette into floppy drive Type in load diskx rr2310_00 x x without quotation marks and then press enter for FreeBSD 4 3 RELEASE ok load kernel ok load disk1 rr...

Page 74: ...eBSD 5 3 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr2310_00 5 3 ko for FreeBSD 5 4 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr2310_00 5 4 ko for FreeBSD 5 3 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr2310_00 5 3 amd64 ko for FreeBSD 5 4 AMD64 RELEASE...

Page 75: ...labeled postinstall which will complete this task Before rebooting the system press Alt F4 to enter the command shell and type the following commands mount o ro dev fd0 mnt sh mnt postinstall umount m...

Page 76: ...nfig du vn0c myfilesystem mount mnt For FreeBSD 5 x mdconfig a t vnode f freebsd_5 x img u 0 mount dev md0 mnt cp mnt rr2310_00 xxx ko boot kernel rr2310_00 ko umount mnt mdconfig d u md0 Step 2 Test...

Page 77: ...conds press SPACE key Type for a list of commands help for more de tailed help ok load rr2310_00 modules rr2310_00 ko text 0xf571 data 0x2c8 0x254 ok autoboot Note If you have configured a RAID 10 usi...

Page 78: ...system to automatically mount the array by modifying the file etc fstab Example Add the following line to instruct the system to mount dev da1s1e to location mnt hpt after startup dev da1s1e mnt hpt u...

Page 79: ...Appendix Customer Support...

Page 80: ...OS driver and RAID Software have been installed for the RocketRAID host adapter Updates are available from our website Prepare a list of the computer system s hardware and software motherboard CPU mem...

Page 81: ...try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment int...

Search results

Summary of Contents for RocketRAID 230 Series

Reviews:

Related manuals for RocketRAID 230 Series

Brands by name

Popular brands

HighPoint RocketRAID 230 Series, User Manual

Search results

Summary of Contents for RocketRAID 230 Series

Reviews:

Related manuals for RocketRAID 230 Series

Brands by name

Popular brands