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Rocket RAID 2680 FreeBSD Installation Guide 

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Note 

On some systems with ACPI enabled, 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. 

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Before exit install, insert floppy driver diskette into (USB) floppy drive, or insert 

USB driver disk into USB port, then an additional step must be taken to copy RR2680 

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 type the following commands: 

For common ISA floppy controller: 

# mount –t msdosfs /dev/fd0 /mnt 

For USB floppy controller, we assume it is da0: 

# mount –t msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt 

For USB disk, we assume it is da1: 

# mount –t msdosfs /dev/da1 /mnt 
or 
# mount –t msdosfs /dev/da1s1 /mnt 
 

 

Then run script to do postinstall 

# sh /mnt/postinstall 
# umount /mnt 

 

 

Then press Alt-F1 to return to the setup screen and choose [X Exit Install] to finish 

setup. 

Note 

After the driver has been loaded, remove the floppy diskette from (USB) floppy 

drive or remove USB disk from USB port to avoid that the installed system does 

not boot normally. 

Summary of Contents for RocketRAID 2680

Page 1: ...RocketRAID 2680 FreeBSD Installation Guide RocketRAID 2680 SAS Controller FreeBSD Installation Guide Version 1 0 Copyright HighPoint Technologies Inc All rights reserved Last updated on August 19 2008...

Page 2: ...tem BIOS Settings 1 Step 3 Prepare the Driver Diskette 1 Step 4 Install FreeBSD 2 3 Installing RR2680 Driver on an Existing System 5 Step 1 Copy the Driver Module 5 Step 2 Test the Driver Module 5 Ste...

Page 3: ...o move it to another PCI slot Otherwise you may be unable to boot up your system Step 2 Check System BIOS Settings In your system BIOS SETUP menu change Boot Sequence in such a way that the system wil...

Page 4: ...a USB disk and the driver disk can be created as the floppy diskette For example use the first partition of the USB disk da1 then replace fd0 in the upper command with da1s1 or da1 Step 4 Install Fre...

Page 5: ...eBSD 6 0 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr2680 6 0 ko for FreeBSD 6 0 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr2680 6 0 amd64 ko for FreeBSD 6 1 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr2680 6 1 ko for FreeBSD 6 1 AMD64 RELEASE ok load d...

Page 6: ...ch will do this work for you Before you reboot the system press Alt F4 to the command shell and type the following commands For common ISA floppy controller mount t msdosfs dev fd0 mnt For USB floppy...

Page 7: ...l rr2680 ko 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...

Page 8: ...RAID Management Software HighPoint RAID Management Software is used to configure and keep track of your hard disks and RAID arrays attached to RR2680 controller Installation of the management softwar...

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