RocketRAID 2680 FreeBSD Installation Guide RocketRAID 2680 SAS Controller FreeBSD Installation Guide Version 1.0 Copyright © HighPoint Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
RocketRAID 2680 FreeBSD Installation Guide Table of Contents 1 Overview .......................................................................................................................................1 2 Installing FreeBSD on RocketRAID 2680 Controller...............................................................1 Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation..........................................................................1 Step 2 Check System BIOS Settings.................................
Rocket RAID 2680 FreeBSD Installation Guide 1 Overview The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use RocketRAID 2680 Controller on a FreeBSD system.
Rocket RAID 2680 FreeBSD Installation Guide #umount /mnt Note If the floppy diskette is inserted into an USB floppy controller and the device name in the system is da0, then replace fd0 in the upper command with da0. The driver also could be put on a USB disk, and the driver disk can be created as the floppy diskette. For example: use the first partition of the USB disk da1, then replace fd0 in the upper command with da1s1 or da1.
Rocket RAID 2680 FreeBSD Installation Guide If using USB disk, insert it into the USB port. Assume the USB disk’s name is disk1 and driver modules are located at the first partition of disk1 in system, then type in "load disk1s1:rr2680-x.x" (without quotation mark). If whole USB disk is formatted as one partition, i.e. format the USB disk directly without partitioned, type in "load disk1:rr2680-x.x" (without quotation mark) and then press enter. To confirm USB disk name, type lsdev command.
Rocket RAID 2680 FreeBSD Installation Guide Note On some systems with ACPI enabled, FreeBSD may not work. You can try to disable ACPI in system BIOS or type the command “set hint.acpi.0.disabled=”1”” under boot prompt to solve the problem. 6) Before exit install, insert floppy driver diskette into (USB) floppy drive, or insert USB driver disk into USB port, then an additional step must be taken to copy RR2680 driver module to system.
Rocket RAID 2680 FreeBSD Installation Guide Note On some systems the floppy may be inaccessible during installation. In this case, please remove the CD, reboot from the installed system and load the driver manually from floppy again when booting from controller. After system boots up you can run the postinstall script to install the driver.
Rocket RAID 2680 FreeBSD Installation Guide system start up. Step 4 Configure System to Mount Volumes when Startup Now you can inform the system to automatically mount the array by modifying the file /etc/fstab. E.g.
