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RocketRAID 3520

SATAII Host Adapter

User’s Guide

Revision: 1.0

Date: September 2007

HighPoint Technologies, Inc.

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Page 1: ...RocketRAID 3520 SATAII Host Adapter User s Guide Revision 1 0 Date September 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: ...are Description Installation 1 RocketRAID 3520Adapter Layout 2 1 2 LED Connections 2 2 3 Installing the RocketRAID 3520 Host Adapter 2 2 4 Verifying Installation 2 4 5 Battery Backup 2 4 Chapter 3 Roc...

Page 4: ...Chapter 6 Linux Driver Support 1 Fedora Core 7 Linux installation Overview 6 1 2 Red Hat Enterprise 5 Overview 6 5 3 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES installation Overview 6 9 Chapter 7 FreeBSD Driv...

Page 5: ...Chapter 1 Introduction Contents of this Chapter About this guide Introducing the RocketRAID 3520 Host Adapter RocketRAID3520 Features and Specifications Understanding RAID Concepts and Terminology...

Page 6: ...ID 3520 is the latest product in storage technology combining the outstanding high performance capabili ties of SATA II with enterprise storage features such as Native Command Queuing NCQ staggered dr...

Page 7: ...k cache 8 SATA II channels at 3Gb s per port Multi adapter support up to 4 adapters BIOS booting support BIOS PnP and BBS BIOS boot specification support Intel RAID 6 Engine for large capacity RAID ar...

Page 8: ...scrubbing to prevent degraded RAID arrays Bad sector repair and re mapping to reduce dropped drives ATA pass through mode support Operating System Support Windows 2000 XP x64 Vista 32 and 64 BIT Linux...

Page 9: ...on other controllers before use with the RocketRAID 3520 see legacy disk below Arrayinitialization A redundant array RAID5 RAID1 RAID10 RAID50 6 needs to be initialized to ensure full performance and...

Page 10: ...transformed from one RAID level to another RAID level while simulta neously being resized even under I O load Spare disk A spare disk is a single disk that can be used to automatically rebuild a redun...

Page 11: ...20 Hardware Description Installation Contents of this Chapter RocketRAID3520Hardware 1 RocketRAID 3520Adapter Layout 2 LED Connections 3 Installing the RocketRAID 3520 Host Adapter 4 Verifying Install...

Page 12: ...two internal Mini SAS ports Each port can support up to 4 hard disks JP2 JP5 ACTIVELED FAILLED LED connectors disk activity disk failure LED support is discussed in greater detail in the LED Connecti...

Page 13: ...g the RocketRAID 3520 Host Adapter Note Make sure the system is powered off before installing the RocketRAID 3520 host adapter The RocketRAID 3520 includes both standard and low profile brackets It ma...

Page 14: ...3520 the appropriate Mini SAS cables 5 Many server level chassis include hard disk hot swap bays For these system chassis cables are attached to the chassis backplane rather than directly to each ind...

Page 15: ...re detected by this utility If any of the hard disks are not detected power down the system and check the power and data cable connections 5 Battery Backup A battery backup option will be available as...

Page 16: ...RocketRAID 3520 Hardware Description Installation Step2 Install the copper spacers 2 5...

Page 17: ...RocketRAID 3520 Hardware Description Installation Step3 Attach the BBU unit into CONN 10 Step4 Refasten the bracket screws 2 6...

Page 18: ...Chapter 3 RocketRAID 3520 BIOS Utility Contents of this Chapter RocketRAID3520BIOSUtility 1 BIOS Command Overview 2 Creating RAIDArrays 3 Adding Removing Spare Disks 4 Updating the Firmware...

Page 19: ...arrow keys to scroll 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 cance...

Page 20: ...simultaneously when the Staggered spin up feature is enabled Delay between spinup seconds used to set the amount of time the RocketRAID 3520 will wait between issuing Staggered spinup commands Rebuil...

Page 21: ...on about hard disks attached to the RocketRAID 3520 Use the arrow keys to highlight the target hard disk and press ENTER to view the information RAID Array displays information about RAID arrays attac...

Page 22: ...highlight the Array Name option and press ENTER 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 i...

Page 23: ...RAID 5 or RAID6 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 higher performance b...

Page 24: ...into RAID arrays However in some instances disks that are members of RAID arrays may also be designated to act as a spare If the disks in question are part of a RAID array that did not utilize the ful...

Page 25: ...e DOS prompt window For other operating systems In order to update the firmware the system must be booted into DOS mode using a DOS boot diskette or CD image 1 Copy the flashelf exe and the bios image...

Page 26: ...Chapter 4 RocketRAID 3520 Driver and Software Installation Microsoft Windows 2000 XP 2003 Server x64 versions Vista Contents of this Chapter Driver and Software CD Windows Driver Installation...

Page 27: ...iety 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 diskette into the system s floppy dr...

Page 28: ...Click on the Please Select the Diskette you 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 softw...

Page 29: ...ic location Advanced and click Next to continue 2 Click on the Include this location in the search option and select the system s floppy drive generally Disk A Next insert the Driver Installation disk...

Page 30: ...he setup procedure will continue and will later instruct you to press the S key to specify additional adapters Press the S key as instructed 3 Next the setup program will prompt for the insertion of t...

Page 31: ...r for driver software 4 Specify the location of the driver and click Next 5 When asked Would you like to install this driver software select Install 6 The RocketRAID 3520 will be available for use aft...

Page 32: ...3520 Web RAID Management Interface Contents of this Chapter 1 Web RAID Managemeny Interface 2 Preparing Hard disks 3 Array Management 4 Device Management 5 Configuring Spare Disks 6 Managing Events a...

Page 33: ...word you can remove this file to reset the password 2 If you can t connect to the local system please check and make sure a process named hptsvr is running If hptsvr is not running you can start it ma...

Page 34: ...management page 2 Click on the Initialize Devices button towards the upper portion of the interface screen 3 Checkmark each disk you wish to initialize and click the Submit button Warning initializin...

Page 35: ...t tolerant until initializa tion is finished 6 When creating array on IOP RAID controller All RAID type have cache policy R5 50 6 is no None option And if enable write back data also can be safe even...

Page 36: ...button An Array Information window will appear 3 Click the Delete button Note An array in use by the operating system cannot be deleted Any data stored on a deleted array will be inaccessible Array M...

Page 37: ...be used to rebuild RAID arrays Verifying an Array For a RAID 1 or RAID1 0 array verify process compares the data of one mirror pair with the other For RAID 5 verify process calculates RAID5 parity and...

Page 38: ...rget array For example a JBOD comprised of 3 disks 1 2 3 can only be migrated using disk 1 Disks 2 and 3 cannot be used disk 1 would have to be combined with other disks attached to the RocketRAID car...

Page 39: ...ton Note An array running background tasks cannot be renamed Unplug This can be used to safely take an entire array offline while the system remains operational To Unplug an array 1 Select Manage Arra...

Page 40: ...ler 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 disk Unplug...

Page 41: ...disk RAID RAID Non RAID status F Temperature in Fahrenheit of the hard disk Celsius is displayed under the SMART status BadSectors Found Repaired The card is capable of repairing bad sectors a summar...

Page 42: ...xt to view the SMART status of the hard disk Note S M A R T attribute data is drive specific The software includes a list of definitions for popular drive models manufacturers Unknown S M A R T attrib...

Page 43: ...will be displayed Adding a Spare Disk To add a spare disk select a disk from the Available Disks list and click the Add Spare button This will add the disk to the Spare Pool list Removing a Spare Dis...

Page 44: ...y the Management Software To view logged events Please select Event from the menu The Event Management page will be displayed Click the Clear button to clear the event log Managing Tasks With the High...

Page 45: ...t you want to verify or rebuild 2 Enter a name for the task 3 Configure the frequency for the task 4 Check the Submit button Delete a Scheduled Task To delete a task schedule 1 Select a task from the...

Page 46: ...Alarm This setting enables and disables the RR3520 s alarm Listening Port Change Listening Port This is the TCP port number utilized by the HighPoint RAID Management Service in order to communicate wi...

Page 47: ...ter a new password and click the Change Password button to change the current user s password Enabling E mail notification To configure E mail notification 1 Select the Enable Event Notification optio...

Page 48: ...Chapter 6 Linux Driver Support Contents of this Chapter Fedora Core 7 Linux installation Overview Red Hat Enterprise 5 Overview SuSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES installation Overview...

Page 49: ...ID 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 or Windows system a Fedora driver diskette can be ge...

Page 50: ...g the following commands mount dev fd0 cd tmp gzip dc media floppy modules cgz cpio idumv Driver modules for all supported kernel versions will be extracted The driver module for the active kernel is...

Page 51: ...5 d S01hptdriver Step 4 Configure System to Mount Volumes during Startup The system can be instructed to automatically mount the array s during startup by modifying the file etc fstab For example add...

Page 52: ...RocketRAID 3520 driver Note The driver cannot be uninstalled while the system is booted from a disk or array attached to the RocketRAID host adapter To uninstall the driver remove the lines added to...

Page 53: ...s On a Linux system use the dd command to generate a boot diskette Insert a floppy disk into the floppy drive and type the following command dd if hptiop_00 rhel 4u4 img of dev fd0 Step 2 Install Red...

Page 54: ...another PCI slot Step 1 Obtain the Driver Module Extract the module file from the file modules cgz from the driver disk using the following commands mount dev fd0 cd tmp gzip dc mnt floppy modules cgz...

Page 55: ...oad the module when booting Use the following commands echo modprobe hptiop_00 etc init d hptdriver chmod 755 etc init d hptdriver ln sf etc init d hptdriver etc rc d rc3 d S01hptdriver ln sf etc init...

Page 56: ...rd lib hptiop_00 ko umount mnt initrd gzip c tmp initrd ext2 boot initrd xxx img If you are using lilo to boot the system use lilo to reinstall the RAM disk lilo Update hptiop_00 ko in lib modules cp...

Page 57: ...o RocketRAID host adapter follow the steps outlined below Step 1 Prepare the Driver Diskette The driver is contained in a floppy diskette image file slesdd img On a DOS or Windows system a driver disk...

Page 58: ...ID 3520 Driver on an Exist ing System If you are currently running SLES and would like to access drives or arrays attached to the Rocket RAID host adapter follow the steps outlined below Note 1 If a S...

Page 59: ...tiop_00 ko Then you can access the arrays attached to the controller as SCSI devices e g dev sda Step 3 Mounting and Partitioning the Device Note Many versions of SuSE include YAST YAST is a graphical...

Page 60: ...mod 3 Next run the mkinitrd command to update the initrd file mkinitrd 4 If you are using the lilo boot loader run lilo again lilo Step 5 Configure System to Mount Volumes during Startup The system ca...

Page 61: ...un lilo again lilo 5 Uninstalling the Driver To uninstall the RocketRAID 3520 driver Note The driver cannot be uninstalled while the system is booted from a disk or array attached to the RocketRAID ho...

Page 62: ...reeBSD Driver Support Contents of this Chapter 1 Installing FreeBSD on the RocketRAID 3520 Controller 2 Installing the RocketRAID 3520 Driver on an Existing System 3 Updating the Driver 4 Uninstalling...

Page 63: ...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 drive and type the following command if...

Page 64: ...Type in load diskx hptiop_00 x x without quotation marks and then press enter for FreeBSD 4 3 RELEASE ok load kernel ok load disk1 hptiop_00 4 3 ko for FreeBSD 4 4 RELEASE ok load kernel ok load disk...

Page 65: ...0 hptiop_00 5 4 ko for FreeBSD 5 3 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 hptiop_00 5 3 amd64 ko for FreeBSD 5 4 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 hptiop_00 5 4 amd64 ko for FreeBSD 6 0 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 hpt...

Page 66: ...following commands mount o ro dev fd0 mnt sh mnt postinstall umount mnt Then press Alt F1 to return to the setup screen and choose X Exit Install to finish setup 2 Installing the RocketRAID 3520 Driv...

Page 67: ...s with the system by loading it during bootup If the module has been loaded successfully you should see the RocketRAID banner and a display screen of the attached drives You can now access the drives...

Page 68: ...y Load the Driver To avoid typing in load hptiop_00 each time the operating system is booted the system must be instructed to automatically load the module during bootup To configure the system to aut...

Page 69: ...ply reinstall the driver following the steps discussed in the previous section Install the driver on an existing system 4 Uninstalling the Driver The driver can only be uninstalled when the system is...

Page 70: ...Chapter 8 Mac OSX Driver Contents of this Chapter Installing the driver and RAID utility...

Page 71: ...iversal vxxx dmg file 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 boo...

Page 72: ...estart the system After the system restarts you can use a web browser to configure the controller and setup RAID arrays Use the MacOSX Disk Utility to create partitions the RAID arrays WebRAIDManageme...

Page 73: ...Appendix Customer Support...

Page 74: ...and RAID Software have been installed for the RocketRAID 3520 Updates are available from our website Prepare a list of the computer system s hardware and software motherboard CPU memory other PCI dev...

Page 75: ...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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