Linux Ubuntu Server on SSD7505 Installation Guide
SSD7505 Controller
Linux Ubuntu Server 20.04.4
Installation Guide
Version 1.02
Copyright © 2022 HighPoint Technologies, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Last updated on June 30, 2022
Page 1: ...ntu Server on SSD7505 Installation Guide SSD7505 Controller Linux Ubuntu Server 20 04 4 Installation Guide Version 1 02 Copyright 2022 HighPoint Technologies Inc All rights reserved Last updated on June 30 2022 ...
Page 2: ...p 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation 1 Step 2 Check System EFI Settings 1 Step 3 Flash UEFI Rom to SSD7505 3 Step 4 Create Array 4 Step 5 Prepare the Driver Diskette 5 Step 6 Install Linux Ubuntu Server 6 3 Monitoring the Driver 8 4 Installing RAID Management Software 9 5 Rebuilding Driver Module for System Update 9 6 Trouble Shooting 9 ...
Page 3: ...05 only support EFI boot If you have other SCSI adapters installed you must make sure the SSD7505 controller EFI will be loaded firstly If not try to move it to another PCI slot Otherwise you may be unable to boot up your system Step 2 Check System EFI Settings In your system EFI SETUP menu change Boot Sequence in such a way that the system will first boot from EFI CDROM and then from SSD7505 RAID...
Page 4: ... 2 b Disable Secure Boot set Attempt Secure Boot to Disabled 2 Set UEFI setting with ASUS PRIME X299 DELUXE motherboard as an example a Set Boot from Storage Devices to UEFI driver first b And Boot Device Control to UEFI Only or UEFI and Legacy OPROM ...
Page 5: ...p 3 Flash UEFI Rom to SSD7505 a Unzip SSD7505 UEFI package to root dir of a USB flash driver and insert the USB flash drive to the motherboard b Booting from the UEFI USB flash and enter the UEFI environment c Command with SSD7505 nsh flash UEFI rom to SSD7505 Controller and reboot ...
Page 6: ...D to SSD7505 Controller Note Make sure your USB flash partition format is NTFS or FAT32 b Boot in the presence of the motherboard Log screen there will be NVMe SSD information c Enter the motherboard s Boot List and select start from UEFI USB flash d Command Arraycreate efi to enter the Utility ...
Page 7: ...eate RAID0 array with all disks and with maximum capacity f Command exit g For more command usages refer to Appendix A Step 5 Prepare the Driver Diskette Extract HighPoint_NVMe_Ubuntu_20 04 4_x86_64_vx x x_xx_xx_xx tar gz to top directory of an USB flash drive It will look like ...
Page 8: ...llation screen appears press e to edit boot command line option On the edit command window move the cursor to the end of line linux casper vmlinuz quiet and append modprobe blacklist nvme double quotation mark are not include Press CTRL x or F10 to start the system d When the installation started Press ALT F2 to switch new console window and press ENTER to activate this console Ubuntu login ubuntu...
Page 9: ...nt point for USB flash drive mount dev sda1 hptdd Mount the USB flash drive to hptdd cp a hptdd hptdd tmp Copy driver installation file to system temporary directory umount dev sda1 Unmount the USB flash drive sh tmp hptdd preinst sh Load SSD7505 driver e Press ALT F1 to continue system installation f When the installation prompts Reboot now ...
Page 10: ...linux_src_vxx x x_xx_xx_xx bin i Follow the prompts to complete the driver installation j After the installation is complete you can perform system update operations 3 Monitoring the Driver Once the driver is running you can monitor it through the Linux proc file system support There is a special file under proc scsi hptnvme Through this file you can view driver status and send control commands to...
Page 11: ...e When the system updates the kernel packages the driver module hptnvme ko should be built and installed manually before reboot Please refer to the REAME file distributed with HighPoint SSD7505 open source package on how to build and install the driver module 6 Trouble Shooting If you forget to install the open linux driver before updating the kernel the system crash cannot enter Please follow the...
Page 12: ...0 Run the bin file to install the driver package hptnvme_g5_linux_src_vxx x x_xx_xx_xx bin d The driver installation is complete and the reboot can enter the system where the new kernel is located uname r This command is used to view the kernel version ...
Page 13: ...ith maximum capacity create RAID1 1 1 1 3 10 Create RAID1 array with disk 1 1 and 1 3 and with 10GB capacity create RAID10 create RAID10 create RAID10 Create RAID10 array with all disks and with maximum capacity Delete Command Syntax delete array ID Examples delete 1 Delete the first array from Logical device list delete 2 Delete the second array from Logical device list Info Command Syntax info D...
Page 14: ...Linux Ubuntu Server on SSD7505 Installation Guide 12 Help Command Syntax H h help This is help message ...
