BC4000 Series RAID Controllers
User Manual
02/13/06
B ro ad c om C o r p or at i on
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Linux: Installing Drivers and Applications
Document
BC4000-UM100-R
The installation of the drivers for the RAIDCore BC4000 Series RAID controller has been completed. The
bcadm program to manage the controllers, arrays, and disks can now be installed as described on
“Installing
the bcadm Application” on page 33
.
5.
Use the command
bcadm -M -qa
to display the RAID arrays and their associated devices as described in
“Example bcadm Usage with Output” on page 147
. Refer to your Linux documentation for information on
partitioning and formatting the drives with the
fdisk
and
mkfs
utilities.
New Install of Fedora Core 2, 3, and 4 Linux
The procedure for installing the Fedora Core 2, 3, and 4 Linux operating system and the RAIDCore BC4000
Series RAID controller drivers is described below.
To install the BC4000 Series RAID controller driver with a new Fedora Core 2, 3 or 4 Linux
installation:
1.
Insert the installation CD and, at the prompt, type the following:
linux expert
2.
When the window asking “Do you have a driver disk?” is displayed, select
No
.
3.
Continue with the install until you come to a window saying “Warning - No hard drives have been found. You
probably need to manually chose device drivers for the installation to succeed. Would you like to select drivers
now?” Answer by clicking
Yes
.
4.
When the window titled
Devices
is displayed, select
Add Device
.
5.
At the next window, “Select Device Driver to Load,” pressing F2 will prompt you for the driver disk.
6.
When it has completed loading, you will be returned to the selection window. Scroll down the list until you come
to “RAIDCore bc4000 raid driver (bcraid)” and select it.
7.
Select
OK
. You should see a window indicating that the driver is being loaded.
8.
When you are returned to the
Devices
window, the bc4000 driver should be in the list.
9.
Select
Done
and proceed with the installation as usual.
New Install of SuSE Linux
The procedure for installing the SuSE Linux operating system and the RAIDCore BC4000 Series RAID
controller drivers also differs somewhat from the one for Red Hat Linux. The driver kit is delivered as a
compressed ISO CD-ROM image (with a name ending in .iso.gz). Uncompress the image with gzip -d, and
then either mount the image using the loopback driver or write the image to a CD-ROM. You can also mirror
the contents of the image to a USB memory drive for those systems that support USB driver installs.
To install the BC4000 Series RAID controller driver with a new SuSE Linux installation:
1.
Boot from the SuSE installation media and select the function key labeled “Driver Update” from the installation
window.
2.
Scroll down the list to installation and press
Enter
to start the installation process.
3.
When prompted for the driver disk, insert the floppy and select “OK.” Use
fd0
as the medium and select “OK”
to copy the driver and installation support files from the disk.
Note:
For SuSE 9.2 systems with 4 GB of memory, you must use the disk image named
dd-SUSE9.2-2.6.8-24-bigsmp-i386.img.gz.” For SuSE 9.1 systems with 4 GB of memory, use
“dd-SUSE9.2-2.6.8-24-smp-i386.img.gz.”
