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Chapter 7

FreeBSD Driver Support

Contents of this Chapter:

1 - Installing FreeBSD on the RocketRAID 2640X4 Controller

2 - Installing FreeBSD on RocketRAID 26xx Controller

3 - Installing the RocketRAID 2640X4 Driver on an Existing System

4 - Updating the Driver

5 - Installing RAID Management Software

6 - Uninstalling the Driver

Summary of Contents for RocketRAID 2640X4

Page 1: ...RocketRAID 2640X4 SAS Host Adapter User s Guide Revision 1 0 Date March 2008 HighPoint Technologies 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: ...Chapter 2 Hardware Description Installation 1 RocketRAID 2640X4 Host Adapter layout 2 1 2 LED Connections 2 1 3 Pin Connections 2 1 4 Installing the RocketRAID Host Adapter 2 3 5 Verifying Installatio...

Page 4: ...nagement 5 7 5 Configuring Spare Disks 5 10 6 Managing Events and Tasks 5 11 7 Setting 5 13 Chapter 6 Linux Driver Support 1 Fedora Core Linux installation Overview 6 1 2 Red Hat Enterprise CentOS Lin...

Page 5: ...Table of Contents III Chapter 8 Mac OSX Driver and RAID Management Software 1 Installing the driver and RAID utility 8 1 Appendix Customer Support Customer Support A 1...

Page 6: ...Chapter 1 Introduction Contents of this Chapter About this guide Introducing the RocketRAID 2640X4 SAS Host Adapter Product Features Understanding RAID Concepts and Terminology...

Page 7: ...editing and digital content creation Support for both SAS and SATA 3Gb s drives on the same controller maintains configuration optimization for performance based on the characteristics of SAS and SAT...

Page 8: ...rary for customization CLI Command Line Interface Web GUI RAID management local and remote monitoring SHI Drive analysis driven from S M A R T Operating System Support Windows 2000 XP x64 2003 2008 Vi...

Page 9: ...initialization process can be completed after installing the driver and management software When creating an array using the HighPoint RAID Management Console software you can specify an initializati...

Page 10: ...disks to be added to existing RAID arrays in order to increase the array s capacity without fear of data loss Any number of disks can be added to an array at any time Data can be accessed and utilize...

Page 11: ...Hardware Description Installation Contents of this Chapter RocketRAID2640X4Hardware 1 RocketRAID 2640X4 Host Adapter Layout 2 LED Connections 3 Installing the RocketRAID Host Adapter 4 Verifying Inst...

Page 12: ...sk failure LED support is discussed in greater detail in the LED Connection section The RocketRAID 2640X4 host adapter has two LED jumpers that are used to indicate the activity and failure status of...

Page 13: ...select PCI E work model As following Connect Pin 1 and Pin 2 support PCI E X1 and connect Pin 2 and Pin 3 support PCI E X4 BEEP1 Speaker Alarm speaker the speaker emits and audible alarm in the case o...

Page 14: ...be necessary to attach the low profile bracket in place of the standard bracket depend ing upon the chassis design The RocketRAID 2640X4 is a full height card and is not designed for use with low pro...

Page 15: ...er than directly to each individual hard disk Consult the chassis s manual for proper installation procedures 5 Close and secure the system chassis 5 Verifying Installation Once the host adapter and h...

Page 16: ...Chapter 3 BIOS Utility Contents of this Chapter RocketRAID2640X4BIOSUtility 1 BIOS Command Overview 2 Creating RAID Arrays 3 Adding Remove Spare Disks 4 Updating the BIOS 5 BIOS Additional Settings...

Page 17: ...through the various commands and the arrows to browse through the corresponding command menus Use the ENTER key to execute the selected command The ESC button can be used to cancel the selected comman...

Page 18: ...disabled Enabling staggered drive spin up will power up the hard disks one at a time approximately every two seconds View this command is used to select between two views Press the ENTER key to chang...

Page 19: ...The array name dialogue box will appear Use the keyboard to input a new Array Name and press the Enter key Note the Array Name command is optional it is not necessary to name the array The array can b...

Page 20: ...ER To remove the Spare Disk setting from a hard disk highlight the spare disk and press ENTER Generally single disks are designated to act as spares disks that are not configured into RAID arrays Howe...

Page 21: ...your choice 2 Insert the Driver and Software CD included with the retail box into the system s CD ROMorDVDdrive 3 The CD should autorun and display the following screen 3 5 4 Select the Browse the CD...

Page 22: ...down and reboot the system Note the Backup button will save a copy of the card s current BIOS to the directory of your choice For other operating systems In order to update the BIOS the system must be...

Page 23: ...the A prompt has appeared insert the media that contains the required BIOS files and type the following command load xxx xxx Then press enter Note xxx xxx the name of the BIOS image file type it exac...

Page 24: ...g bootup broken array warnings if the adminis trator does not input the Ctrl H command to access the BIOS menu EBDA Reallocation this function refers to Extended BIOS Data Area Disabling this feature...

Page 25: ...Chapter 4 Driver and Software Installation Microsoft Windows Contents of this Chapter Driver and Software CD Windows Driver Installation...

Page 26: ...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 disket...

Page 27: ...ou want to create drop down button and select the appropriate OS from the list 6 Click on the OK button to create the driver diskette To install the RAID software 1 Click on Install RAID Management So...

Page 28: ...search option 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...

Page 29: ...key as instructed 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 sever...

Page 30: ...stem when prompted The RocketRAID 2640X4 will be available for use after Vista reboots Installation Verification After the driver has been installed and the system has been restarted 1 Click the Start...

Page 31: ...ent Interface Contents of this Chapter RocketRAID2640X4BIOSUtility 1 Web RAID Management Interface 2 Preparing Hard disks 3 Array Management 4 Device Management 5 Configuring Spare Disks 6 Managing Ev...

Page 32: ...the initial password is hpt You can change the password after you have logged in Note the login information is saved in etc hptuser dat If you forget the password you can remove this file to reset the...

Page 33: ...sks 1 Select the Manage Device function to access the device management page 2 Click on the Initialize Devices button towards the upper portion of the interface screen 3 Array Management Creating anAr...

Page 34: ...RocketRAID 2640X4 Web RAID Management Interface 5 3 2 Click the Create Array button The create array page will appear 1 Select Manage Array from the menu...

Page 35: ...or the array Write back When the write back setting is selected writes to the array are cached This will result in higher performance but data loss may occur in case of a power failure Write through W...

Page 36: ...wever if you have no spare disks configured you can still rebuild by manually adding an Available Disk to the array To add a disk to a broken array 1 Select menu Manage Array 2 Click the Maintenance b...

Page 37: ...rs a critical broken state a rebuild is necessary to restore the array s redundancy security The rebuild process for an array generally starts automatically If you have aborted a rebuild process you c...

Page 38: ...apacity In some cases a disk may need to be added to the RocketRAID card During the OCE ORLM procedure the redundancy level of the array will be the lowest of the source and target arrays e g if you O...

Page 39: ...ID controller and hard disks drives in use several configurable device settings may be available Read Ahead Write Cache TCQ and NCQ Each feature can be enabled or disabled individually for each hard d...

Page 40: ...tatus OK means the disk is in a healthy state A Failed status suggests the disk was taken offline due to a RAID SMART or sector failure Schedule Click on the blue Schedule link to access the Event men...

Page 41: ...esides in the software installation directory Rescan Devices When you physically add drives to the controller while the system is running you can rescan the controller to reflect the change To rescan...

Page 42: ...anaging Events and Tasks The HighPoint Web RAID Management Software automatically logs all controller related events that have occurred for all controllers cards managed by the software In addition yo...

Page 43: ...r rebuild 2 Enter a name for the task Managing Tasks With HighPoint RAID Management Software you can setup background rebuild and verify tasks to help maintain the integrity of your drives and data Th...

Page 44: ...te a task schedule 1 Select a task from the Tasks List 2 Click the Delete button 7 Settings Select the Settings option to access Settings page EnableAudibleAlarm This setting enables and disables the...

Page 45: ...y entering localhost in the URL bar Change Password This setting allows you to alter the default password when logging on Enter a new password and click the Change Password button to change the curren...

Page 46: ...Chapter 6 Linux Driver Support Contents of this Chapter Fedora Linux installation Overview Red Hat Overview SuSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES installation Overview...

Page 47: ...isks to RR26xx controller you can use RR26xx BIOS Setting Utility to configure your hard disks as RAID arrays or just use them as single disks Before installation you must remove all the disk drives w...

Page 48: ...he installation DVD 2 On Welcome to Fedora installation screen press ESC then a prompted label boot will appear at the top of the screen Type in linux dd without quotation mark and then press Enter 3...

Page 49: ...ted for an update disk source select fd0 The installer will read updates from the driver floppy 10 Continue the installation as usual Do not remove the floppy diskette until installation completed Ins...

Page 50: ...ess OK to continue insert the driver diskette in the floppy drive and then select OK 4 Now the system will load RR26xx driver automatically 5 Continue the installation as usual Installation steps for...

Page 51: ...back to console 1 and finish the installation 3 Installing RR26xx driver on an Existing System If you use a SCSI adapter to boot your system you must make sure the RR26xx controller BIOS will be loade...

Page 52: ...f a different configuration with the driver In this case the precompiled drivers cannot be used You can build a driver for your kernel using Open Source package for RocketRAID controller To ensure the...

Page 53: ...depmod Then you should inform the system load the module when system boots up with the following command cp rr26xx ko lib modules uname r kernel drivers scsi depmod ln sf etc init d hptdriver etc rc d...

Page 54: ...ogical device list 5 Updating the Driver 1 If the original driver is installed in the system initrd file e g when OS is installed to RR26xx controller you can update the driver as below cp rr26xx ko l...

Page 55: ...R26xx controller Installation of the manage ment software is optional but recommended Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents about more information 7 Uninstalling You can only un...

Page 56: ...es which are not physically attached to RR26xx controller from your system Note If you have other SCSI adapters installed you must make sure the RR26xx controller BIOS will be loaded firstly If not tr...

Page 57: ...thout quotation mark then press Enter 3 When prompted Do you have a driver disk Select Yes When prompted Insert your driver disk and press OK to continue insert the driver diskette in the floppy drive...

Page 58: ...onsole 2 by pressing Ctl Alt F2 Then use the following command chroot mnt sysimage vi etc lilo conf Add two lines under the line boot dev sda disk dev sda bios 0x80 sbin lilo Press Ctl Alt F1 to conti...

Page 59: ...onfiguration with the driver In this case the precompiled drivers cannot be used You can build a driver for your kernel using OpenBuild package for RR26xx controller To ensure the module has been load...

Page 60: ...er etc rc d rc5 d S01hptdriver Step 4 Configure System to Mount Volumes when Startup Now you can inform the system to automatically mount the array by modifying the file etc fstab E g you can add the...

Page 61: ...ollowing the previous section Install RR26xx driver on an Existing System Overwrite the driver file in the directory lib modules uname r kernel drivers scsi cp f tmp rr26xx ko lib modules uname r kern...

Page 62: ...the driver name echo rr26xx etc hptcfg Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents for more information 7 Uninstalling You can only uninstall the driver when your system is not bootin...

Page 63: ...ve other SCSI adapters installed you must make sure the RR26xx controller BIOS will be loaded firstly If not try to move it to another PCI slot Other wise you may be unable to boot up your system Step...

Page 64: ...or SuSE 9 0 When Diver Update Menu pop up press OK and back for back to installer For other OS just skip this step 5 Continue the installation as normal You can refer to SuSE Linux documents about OS...

Page 65: ...a1 acpi off initrd hd0 1 initrd Step 1 Install the Driver Module The driver modules are packed in file linux suse arch version install update tar gz on the driver diskette The following example shows...

Page 66: ...c Example You have configured a RAID 5 array using 4 disks It will be registered to system as device dev sda You can use fdisk dev sda to create a partition on it which will be dev sda1 and use mkfs d...

Page 67: ...and send control commands to the driver Note The file name is the SCSI host number allocated by OS If you have no other SCSI cards installed it will be 0 In the following sections we will use x to re...

Page 68: ...ommended To configure HighPoint RAID Management Software to work with RocketRAID controller driver you should setup etc hptcfg to be the driver name echo rr26xx etc hptcfg Please refer to HighPoint RA...

Page 69: ...1 Installing FreeBSD on the RocketRAID 2640X4 Controller 2 Installing FreeBSD on RocketRAID 26xx Controller 3 Installing the RocketRAID 2640X4 Driver on an Existing System 4 Updating the Driver 5 Inst...

Page 70: ...IOS 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 man...

Page 71: ...onsole internal video keyboard BIOS driver A is disk0 BIOS driver B is disk1 BIOS driver C is disk2 BIOS 636kB 74512kB available memory FreeBSD i386 bootstrap loader Revision 0 8 mailto jkh narf osd b...

Page 72: ...E ok load disk1 rr26xx 4 8 ko for FreeBSD 4 9 RELEASE ok load disk1 rr26xx 4 9 ko for FreeBSD 4 10 RELEASE ok load disk1 rr26xx 4 10 ko for FreeBSD 4 11 RELEASE ok load disk1 rr26xx 4 11 ko for FreeBS...

Page 73: ...disk0 rr26xx 6 0 ko for FreeBSD 6 0 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr26xx 6 0 amd64 ko for FreeBSD 6 1 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr26xx 6 1 ko for FreeBSD 6 1 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr26xx 6 1 amd64 ko...

Page 74: ...hint acpi 0 disabled 1 under boot prompt to solve the problem 7 Before exit install an additional step must be taken to copy RR26xx driver module to system On the driver disk there is a setup script p...

Page 75: ...x mount o ro dev fd0 mnt cp mnt rr26xx xxx ko boot kernel rr26xx ko umount mnt You can also extract the files from img files directly without using a floppy diskette For FreeBSD 4 x vnconfig vn0c rr26...

Page 76: ...b data 0x3007ec 0x2062c For FreeBSD 5 1 and later select 6 on Welcome to FreeBSD screen Hit Enter to boot immediately or any other key for command prompt ooting kernel in 9 seconds B press SPACE key T...

Page 77: ...rray 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 ufs rw 0 0 4 Updating the Driver To...

Page 78: ...ll the driver when your system is not booting from devices attached to RR26xx controller Just remove the line rr26xx_load YES in boot defaults loader conf and then delete the driver module modules rr2...

Page 79: ...Chapter 8 Mac OSX Driver Contents of this Chapter Installing the driver and RAID utility...

Page 80: ...to start the installer 3 When the Installer window opens click the Continue button 4 The installer will ask you to select a destination for the driver Make sure to select the boot Volume the driver mu...

Page 81: ...create partitions the RAID arrays Uninstalling To uninstall the driver and management software double click the rr26xx MacOSX universal vxxx file 1 Locate and double click the uninstall command file 2...

Page 82: ...Appendix Customer Support...

Page 83: ...S 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 memo...

Page 84: ...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...

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