User Manual
BC4000 Series RAID Controllers
02/13/06
B ro ad c om C o r p or at i on
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BC4000-UM100-R
Linux: Installing Drivers and Applications
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4.
While the driver is being read from the disk a “Loading update driver” message is displayed. Because it takes
several minutes to read the driver from a diskette, do not worry if it seems to be taking too long.
5.
When you return to the “Choose the driver update medium” window, use the
Back
button and complete the
SuSE installation.
Existing Install of Red Hat or Fedora Core 1, 2, 3, or 4 Linux
If you already have Linux installed on your system, you need only to install the drivers for the RAIDCore
BC4000 Series RAID controller. The following procedure is used for Red Hat and Fedora Core 1, 2, 3, or 4
Linux.
To install the BC4000 Series RAID controller driver with an existing Red Hat or Fedora Core
1, 2, 3, or 4 Linux installation:
1.
Use one of the following methods to mount the RAIDCore driver floppy disk you created in
“Transferring Drivers
to Floppy Disk (Linux)” on page 28
.
•
Create and mount the floppy disk on your system:
a. Mount the floppy disk by typing:
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
b. Change to the install directory by typing:
cd /mnt/floppy
Or
•
Mount the floppy disk image by running the following commands:
losetup /dev/loop0 [unzipped driver file]
mount /dev/loop0 /[some location]
cd /[some location]
2.
Install the BC4000 Series RAID controller driver software by typing:
./install
3.
At the command prompt, type:
insmod scsi_mod
insmod sg
insmod bcraid
Note:
Newer Linux kernels that load the libata driver (including some Fedora Core 2 errata kernels
and Fedora Core 3) do not recognize the BC445X and BC485X controllers as RAID controllers,
which makes arrays appear only as individual disks. To remedy this problem, disable the legacy
board ID as described in
“Changing Controller Options From the BIOS” on page 58
.
Note:
Do not mount the floppy disk on an existing file system (such as
/tmp
).
Note:
The
bcraid
module requires the
scsi_mod
subsystem. The bcadm program requires the
sg
module.