Linux(Fedora,Red Hat,SuSE) Driver Support
3 - Installing RR26xx Driver on an Existing System
If you are currently running Linux and would like to access drives or arrays attached
to the Rocket RAID 26xx controller, you can perform the following steps.
Note:
1. If you use a SCSI adapter to boot your system, you must make sure the RR26xx
controller BIOS will be loaded after that adapter’s BIOS. If not, try to move it to
another PCI slot. Otherwise you may be unable to boot up your system.
2. The driver may work incorrectly on some specific motherboard, such as DFI77B
KT400. You can add “acpi=off” kernel parameter in the /boot/grub/menu.lst:
kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 acpi=off
initrd (hd0,1)/initrd
Step 1 Install the Driver Module
The driver modules are packed in file /linux/suse /[arch]-[version]/install/update.tar.gz
on the driver diskette. The following example shows how to extract the driver modules
for SuSE 10.3 from driver diskette:
# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
# cd /
# tar xfz /mnt/floppy/linux/suse/i386-10.3/install/update.tar.gz
The driver modules will be extracted to directory /lib/modules/[kernel-ver]/kernel/
drivers/scsi/.
Step 2 Test the Driver Module
You can test out the module to ensure that it works for your system by typing in the
command “insmod rr26xx”.
Sometimes insmod will report “unresolved symbols” when you attempt to load the
module. This can be caused by two ways: 2.
Next, use the “mkfs /dev/sda1”
command to setup a file system on this partition.
1. The SCSI module is not loaded in kernel. Try to load SCSI modules first.
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