RocketRAID 3540 SATAII Host Adapter User’s Guide Revision: 1.0 Date: January 2008 HighPoint Technologies, Inc.
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Table of Contents Table of Content Chapter 1 Introduction About this Guide .......................................................................................................1-1 Introducing the RocketRAID 3540 Host Adapter ......................................................1-1 RocketRAID 3540 – Features and Specifications .......................................................1-2 Understanding RAID Concepts and Terminology .....................................................1-4 Network Features....
Table of Contents Chapter 5 Web-RAID Management Interface 1 - Web RAID Management Interface ........................................................................5-1 2 - Preparing Hard disks .............................................................................................5-2 3 - Array Management ...............................................................................................5-3 4 - Device Management ...............................................................................
Chapter 1 Introduction Contents of this Chapter: About this guide Introducing the RocketRAID 3540 Host Adapter RocketRAID 3540 Features and Specifications Understanding RAID Concepts and Terminology Network Features (Web Management/BIOS Utilities)
Introduction About This Guide The RocketRAID 3540 SATAII Host Adapter’s User’s Guide provides information about the functions and capabilities of the host adapter, and instructions for installing, configuring and maintaining RAID arrays hosted by the adapter. The RocketRAID 3540 Host Adapter The HighPoint RocketRAID 3540 is the world’s fastest interal RAID controller utilizing Intel IOP341 processor.
Introduction 256MB of DDR Memory with ECC protection is integrated into the RocketRAID 3540 for improved performance, and provides additional security in the case of critical system failure, when used in conjunction with the optional battery back up unit.
Introduction Array Monitors, Alerts and Indicators • • • • • • • SMTP for email notification Alarm / Buzzer alerts for drive failure SAF-TE (I2C) and SGPIO enclosure management SNMP for remote management Ethernet port for (OBM) Out of Bound Managment NTP (Network Time Protocol) Intelli-VRM.
Introduction Electrical Characteristics: PCI-e : 3.3V 2W Power: 12V 14W Understanding RAID Concepts and Terminology The following concepts and terminology is commonly used when describing the functions of the RocketRAID 3540 Host Adapter. Disk initialization Initializing a disk writes necessary RAID configuration information to that disk. Disks must be initialized before configuring them into RAID arrays. The initialization process will destroy all data on the disk.
Introduction Online RAID Level Migration This term describes the ability to change one type of array (RAID level), into a different type of array (changing a RAID 1 array into a RAID 10 array for example). Data is still accessible during the migration process, and a base level of security is still active. OCE, ORLM and the RocketRAID 3540 The RocketRAID 3540 supports both Online Capacity Expansion (OCE), and Online RAID Level Migration (ORLM).
Chapter 2 RocketRAID 3540 Hardware Description/Installation Contents of this Chapter: RocketRAID 3540 Hardware 1 - RocketRAID 3540 Adapter Layout 2 - Installing the RocketRAID 3540 Host Adapter 3 - Verifying Installation 4 - Battery Backup
RocketRAID 3540 Hardware Description/Installation RocketRAID 3540 Hardware 1 - RocketRAID 3540 Adapter Layout Port1, Port2, Port3, Port4 These represent the RocketRAID 3540’s four Internal Mini-SAS ports. Each port can support up to 4 hard disks. A1-A4, F1-F4 A1-A4 provides LED support Disk Activity, while F1-F4 support Disk Faliture. Pin 1-16 represent each SATA channel/port.
RocketRAID 3540 Hardware Description/Installation J18 (BBU connector) Connector for battery backup unit (optional part). BEEP1 – Speaker Alarm (speaker): the speaker emits and audible alarm in the case of disk/array failure. Ethernet Port Ethernet port for Out of Bound Manegement, support Net Time Protocol. Cable – Internal Mini-SAS to SATA The integrated RocketRAID 3540 include 4 Internal Mini-SAS to SATA cables, each of the RocketRAID 3540’s cable can support SGPIO SideBand Connector.
RocketRAID 3540 Hardware Description/Installation 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Open the system chassis and locate an unused PCI-E x8. Remove the PCI slot cover. Gently insert the RocketRAID 3540 into the PCI-E slot, and secure the bracket to the system chassis. After installing the adapter, attach the Mini-SAS connectors to the RocketRAID 3540’s Mini-SAS port,and to chassis backplane. Each Mini-SAS cable supports up to 4 hard disk drives. Consult the chassis’s manual for proper installation procedures.
RocketRAID 3540 Hardware Description/Installation Make sure all attached disks are detected by this utility. If any of the hard disks are not detected, power down the system and check the cable connections to both the card, and enclosure. 4 - Battery Backup A battery backup option will be available as an optional add-on component. The battery provides additional data security in case of a critical system failure.
Chapter 3 RocketRAID 3540 BIOS Utility Contents of this Chapter: RocketRAID 3540 BIOS Utility 1 - BIOS Command Overview 2 - Disk Menu 3 - Array Menu 4 - Controller Menu
RocketRAID 3540 BIOS Utility RocketRAID 3540 BIOS Utility The RocketRAID 3540’s BIOS Utility can be accessed using the “Ctrl+H” command. This command should be displayed automatically when the RocketRAID 3540’s BIOS screen appears during the system’s boot up procedure. 1 - BIOS Command Overview The RocketRAID 3540 BIOS Utility provides a wide selection of RAID related commands. These commands are displayed towards the top of the utility’s interface.
RocketRAID 3540 BIOS Utility Press [ALT + S] to open the “System” menu in the figure 1; then select “Supervisor mode”, and press ENTER. This will open the user authentication interface. Enter the appropriate password and then press ENTER. The initial password is “hpt”. 2 - Disk Menu Press [ALT + D] to access the “Disk” menu. View a disk From the Disk menu, use the ↑ ↓ arrows keys to select a disk. After highlighting the desired disk, select Disk->Information to view hardware data about this disk.
RocketRAID 3540 BIOS Utility Note: If the selected disk has already been initialized, the BIOS utility will display a warning message, but will continue to initialize the remaining disks. Warning: Initializing a disk may result in data loss – do not initialize disks that contain critical data. Non-initialized disks can still be utilized as stand-alone drives, and will be recognized as “Legacy” devices.
RocketRAID 3540 BIOS Utility Note: Variable Sector Size (VSS) for over 2TB support in 32bit LBA OS. It changes the sector size from default 512 Bytes to 4k Bytes etc. the maximum volume capacity up to 16TB. This option works under Windows platform only. And it CANNOT be converted to Dynamic Disk, because 4k sector size is not a standard format.
RocketRAID 3540 BIOS Utility Start Task – select this option to schedule specific RAID maintenance tasks such as RAID Verification. Stop Task – use this option to terminate scheduled tasks. Set boot - use this option to set an array to act as a boot volume. Note: This setting is dependent on the motherboard’s BIOS configuration. An array designated as a boot volume cannot be used to boot the system unless the card has been instructed to act as the system’s boot device.
RocketRAID 3540 BIOS Utility Network Setting Use this menu to configure the RocketRAID card’s network settings. Access the Controller menu, select “Network” and press ENTER. You can select “Use automatic config” to request the network information from the system, or configure the settings manually.
Chapter 4 RocketRAID 3540 Driver and Software Installation Microsoft Windows (2000, XP, 2003 Server, Vista) Contents of this Chapter: Driver and Software CD Windows Driver Installation
RocketRAID 3540 Driver and Software Installation Driver and Software CD The RocketRAID 3540 retail box includes a Driver and Software CD. This CD can be used to generate driver diskettes, and install the RAID Management software for a variety of operating systems. To create a driver diskette: 1. 2. 3. 4. Insert the CD into the system’s CD/DVD drive. The program should start automatically. Insert a blank floppy diskette into the system’s floppy drive. Click on “Create Driver Diskette”.
RocketRAID 3540 Driver and Software Installation 5. Click on the “Please Select the Diskette you want to create” drop-down button, and select the appropriate OS from the list. 6. Click on the “OK” button to create the driver diskette. To install the RAID software: 1. Click on “Install RAID Management Software”. 2. Select the desired software from the drop down menu, and click on the “OK” button.
RocketRAID 3540 Driver and Software Installation Windows Driver Installation Before installing the RocketRAID 3540 device driver, make sure the RocketRAID 3540 host adapter and all required hard disks have been installed into the system’s chassis (refer to the Hardware Installation section, pages 2-2, 2-3).
RocketRAID 3540 Driver and Software Installation Installing the RocketRAID 3540 driver during a fresh Windows 2000/XP/2003/x64 installation 1. 2. 3. 4. After booting from the Windows 2000/XP/2003 CD-ROM, when the Windows Setup blue screen appears, look towards the bottom of the screen. Windows will prompt you to press the F6 key if you want to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver. Press the F6 key at this time.
RocketRAID 3540 Driver and Software Installation 5. 6. When asked: “Would you like to install this driver software?”, select “Install”. Reboot the system when prompted. The RocketRAID 3540 will be available for use after Vista reboots. Installation Verification After the driver has been installed, and the system has been restarted: 1. 2. 3. Click the Start button, then right-click My Computer icon. Select the Properties item from the popup menu.
Chapter 5 RocketRAID 3540 Web RAID Management Interface Contents of this Chapter: 1 - Web RAID Management Interface 2 - Preparing Hard disks 3 - Array Management 4 - Device Management 5 - Configuring Spare Disks 6 - Managing Events and Tasks 7 - Settings
Web RAID Management Interface 1 - Web RAID Management Interface There are two methods to access the RocketRAID 3540’s web-based RAID management interface: Use HighPoint In-band Management Service or use the adapter’s Ethernet port (out-of-band management). The Web RAID Management interface is a firmware-based utility. If you are using the adapter’s Ethernet port, you need no additional software and configuration on the host system.
Web RAID Management Interface The in-band management software provides an access URL for each controller on the system. You can access the RAID management interface for each controller through its access URL. Then Select the controller’s Access URL by click the link http://127.0.0.1:7412 You will be asked for the User and Password to login. The default user name is “RAID” and the initial password is “hpt”. You can change the password after you have logged in.
Web RAID Management Interface 3) Checkmark each disk you wish to initialize, and click the Submit button. Warning: initializing disks may delete data stored on the selected disks. Legacy Disks Disks that already contain data or have been partitioned will be recognized as “Legacy Disks”. Arrays cannot be created from Legacy Disks. These disks would have to be initialized, which may result in data loss. 3 Array Management Creating an Array To create an array: 1. Select “Manage - Array” from the menu. 2.
Web RAID Management Interface 5. If you are creating a redundant RAID array (RAID1, 5, 6, 10, 50), select an initialization option for the array. Note: An un-initialized RAID1 or RAID10 array can still provide redundancy in case of a disk failure. A RAID5 array, however, is not fault-tolerant until initialization is finished. 6. Specify a cache policy: Write-back 7. 8. 9. When the write-back setting is selected, writes to the array are cached.
Web RAID Management Interface 3) Click the Delete button. Note: An array in use by the operating system cannot be deleted. Any data stored on a deleted array will be inaccessible Array Maintenance – Rebuilding/Verifying/Modifying RAID arrays Rebuilding a Failed Array When an array member in a redundant array fails, the array will be listed as broken. A broken array will be automatically rebuilt using available-spare disks.
Web RAID Management Interface 2) 3) Highlight the desired RAID array Click the “Maintenance” button. Click the Verify button to start the verify process. OCE/ORLM – modifying existing RAID arrays Expanding/Migrating an Array With the OCE/ORLM function, you can migrate an array from one RAID level to another RAID level and/or expand the array dynamically, even under I/O load. This function implements both Online Capacity Expansion (OCE) and Online RAID Level Migration (ORLM).
Web RAID Management Interface An unexpected system crash may result in data loss while performing OCE/ORLM on an array. We strongly recommend backing up data before starting the OCE/ORLM process. After the OCE/ORLM procedure has completed, reboot the system. Other RAID related Functions Renaming an Array You are free to rename RAID arrays. This will not harm the array – data will not be lost. To rename an array: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Select “Manage - Array” from the menu.
Web RAID Management Interface 4 Device Management Select the “Manage - Device” function to access the device management page. Change Device Settings Depending upon the capabilities RAID controller and hard disks drives in use, several configurable device settings may be available: Read Ahead, Write Cache, TCQ, and NCQ. Each feature can be enabled or disabled individually, for each hard disk. Unplug The Unplug option found below each Device name, can be used to quickly remove (hot-swap) a Legacy disk.
Web RAID Management Interface User can also use the Web RAID management to upgrade controller’s firmware. SHI – Storage Health Inspector The primary SHI interface displays a brief “health” summary of each hard disk. Controller ID Which controller /card the disk is attached to.
Web RAID Management Interface Device SSN# Serial number of the hard disk RAID RAID/Non-RAID status F Temperature (in Fahrenheit) of the hard disk (Celsius is displayed under the SMART status) Bad Sectors/Found & Repaired The card is capable of repairing bad sectors – a summary of this activity is presented here. Device Status OK means the disk is in a healthy state. A Failed status suggests the disk was taken offline (due to a RAID, SMART or sector failure).
Web RAID Management Interface Note: S.M.A.R.T attribute data is drive-specific. The software includes a list of definitions for popular drive models/manufacturers. Unknown S.M.A.R.T. attributes will be shown as “unknown”. You can add the attribute definitions for your drive in the file smart.def (which resides in the software installation directory). Rescan Devices When you physically add drives to the controller while the system is running, you can rescan the controller to reflect the change.
Web RAID Management Interface To rescan the devices: 1) 2) Select menu “Manage - Device”. Click “Rescan Devices” button. Note: When you are hot-plugging an entire array, run rescan only after all array members (hard disks) have been physically plugged or unplugged from the system. You can rescan all the devices at once using the Rescan function on the Array Management page. 5 Configuring Spare Disks To configure spare disks attached to the RocketRAID card, select the “Manage Spare” function.
Web RAID Management Interface 6 Managing Events and Tasks The HighPoint Web RAID Management Software automatically logs all controller related events that have occurred (for all controllers/cards managed by the software). In addition you can configure E-mail Notification to receive information about these events (see Section 7 Settings -View Events). Events Tasks executed by the Management Software, or any disk/array errors reported by the card while the OS is active are known as “Events”.
Web RAID Management Interface Scheduling a Task To add a task schedule: 1) 2) 3) 4) Select the array that you want to verify or rebuild. Enter a name for the task. Configure the frequency for the task. Check the Submit button. Delete a Scheduled Task To delete a task schedule: 1) Select a task from the Tasks List. 2) Click the Delete button. 7 Settings Select the “Settings” option to access Settings page.
Web RAID Management Interface Settings>System The System Setting page include SAF-TE config file setting, Audible Alarm setting, Staggered Spinup setting, Spindown Idle Disk setting, Rebuild priority setting and Auto Rebuild setting. The Upload SAF-TE config file option allow user to upload the special SAF-TE config files. Settings>Network This page allow user to adjust the onboard LAN values.
Web RAID Management Interface Settings>User This setting allows you to alter the default password (when logging on). Enter a new password and click the “Change Password” button to change the current user’s password. Settings>Email Enabling E-mail notification: To configure E-mail notification: 1) Select the “Enable Event Notification” option. 2) Enter the appropriate information for the SMTP server. 3) Click the “Change Setting” button.
Web RAID Management Interface To test E-mail notification: 1) Enter the necessary information for the recipient. 2) Click the Test button. If the software is unable to send a test message, an error will be displayed. Double check the recipient entries and make sure the information is correct. Settings>SNMP You can set three SNMP Trap IP address and trap type, this setting will be saved in the flash.
Chapter 6 Linux Driver Support Contents of this Chapter: Fedora Linux installation Overview SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) installation Overview Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS Overview
Linux Driver Support 1 - Overview The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use RocketRAID 3540 Controller on Fedora Linux system.
Linux Driver Support command to make the boot diskette. Insert a floppy disk into the floppy drive and type the command(Example): #dd if=rr3xxx_4xxx-fedora.img of=/dev/fd0 Step 4 Install Fedora Linux Installation steps for Fedora 8 1. Start installing Fedora Linux by booting from the installation DVD. 2. On “Welcome to Fedora” installation screen, press “ESC”, then a prompted label “boot:” will appear at the top of the screen. Type in “linux dd” (without quotation mark) and then press Enter. 3.
Linux Driver Support the floppy drive and then select “OK”. The system will load RR3540 driver automatically. When prompted “Do you wish to load any more driver disks?” Select “No”. 9. When prompted for an update disk source, select fd0. The installer will read updates from the driver floppy. 10. Continue the installation as usual. Do not remove the floppy diskette until installation completed. Installation steps for Fedora Core5 & Core6 1.
Linux Driver Support 5. Continue the installation as usual. Installation steps for Fedora Core 2 1. Start installing Fedora Linux by booting from the installation CD. 2. On “Welcome to Fedora Linux” installation screen, a prompted label “boot:” will appear at the bottom of the screen. Just press Enter. 3. When prompted the warning “No hard drives have been found”, press “ALT+F2” to switch the shell on console 2.
Linux Driver Support Remove hptiop.ko module on Fedora 6 & 7 & 8 If you installed RR3540 controller, you must remove built-in module from system: # rm –f /lib/modules/‘uname –r‘/kernel/drivers/scsi/hptiop.ko # rmmod hptiop.ko Step 1 Obtain the Driver Module You can extract the module file from the file modules.cgz on the driver disk. Using the following commands: # mount /dev/fd0 # cd /tmp # gzip –dc /mnt/floppy/modules.cgz | cpio –idumv Driver modules for all supported kernel versions will be extracted.
Linux Driver Support kernel using Open Source package for RocketRAID 3540 controller. To ensure the module has been loaded successfully, you can check the driver status by typing in the command “cat /proc/scsi/hptiop/x”, where x is the filename you found under /proc/scsi/hptiop/. You should see the driver banner and a list of attached drives. You can now access the drives as a SCSI device (the first device is / dev/sda, then /dev/sdb, etc.). Example: You have configured a RAID 0 array using 2 disks.
Linux Driver Support 4 - 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/hptiop/. Note: The file name is the SCSI host number allocated by OS. If you have no other SCSI cards installed, it will be 0. In the following sections, we will use x to represent this number.
Linux Driver Support 6 - Installing RAID Management Software HighPoint RAID Management Software is used to configure and keep track of your hard disks and RAID arrays attached to RR3540 controller. Installation of the management software is optional but recommended. Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents about more information. 7 - Uninstalling You can only uninstall the driver when your system is not booting from devices attached to RR3540 controller.
Linux Driver Support 1 - Overview The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use Rocket RAID 3540 Controller on SLES Linux system.
Linux Driver Support can be found on the SLES Linux CD (under /dosutils). Just run it under a command window and follow its prompt. On a Linux system, you can use the “dd” command to make the driver diskette. Insert a floppy disk into the floppy drive and type the command: # dd if=rr3xxx_4xxx-sles.img of=/dev/fd0 Step 4 Install SLES Linux 1. Start installing by booting from SLES installation CD. 2. When CD boots, select “Installation” option and press F6 to load the driver. 3.
Linux Driver Support E.g. default=0 timeout=8 title Linux kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinux root=/dev/hda1 acpi=off initrd (hd0,1)/initrd Then reboot the system to make new kernel parameter take effect. Step 2 Install the Driver Module The driver modules are packed in file /linux/suse /[arch]-[version]/install/update.tar. gz on the driver diskette.
Linux Driver Support Step 4 Configure System to Automatically Load the Driver Most likely, you will not want to type in “insmod hptiop” each time you boot up the system. You can add the driver to the initial RAM disk image to load the driver at boot time: 1. Edit file /etc/sysconfig/kernel and add hptiop module to the line INITRD_MODULES=..., e.g: INITRD_MODULES=”reiserfs hptiop” 2. Run depmod to update module configuration: # depmod 3. Run mkinitrd to update the initrd file: # mkinitrd 4.
Linux Driver Support 5 - Installing RAID Management Software HighPoint RAID Management Software is used to configure and keep track of your hard disks and RAID arrays attached to RR3540 controller. Installation of the management software is optional but recommended. Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents about more information. 6 - Uninstalling You can only uninstall the driver when your system is not booting from devices attached to RR3540 controller.
Linux Driver Support 1 - Overview The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use RocketRAID 3540 Controller on Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS system. Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents about more information.
Linux Driver Support dosutils). Just run it under a command window and follow its prompt. On a Linux system, you can use the “dd” command to make the boot diskette. Insert a floppy disk into the floppy drive and type the command (amd64 driver for example): # dd if=rr3xxx_4xxx-rhel_centos-.img of=/dev/fd0 Step 4 Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS 1. Start installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS by booting from the installation CD. 2.
Linux Driver Support Note: 1. The system device mapping order is the same as the order shown in RR3540 BIOS Setting Utility. 2. On some system the LILO boot loader may be installed incorrectly unless you specify BIOS parameters in /etc/lilo.conf. During installation, when prompted “Would you like to create a boot disk for your system?”, switch to console 2 by pressing ++F2. Then use the following command: # chroot /mnt/sysimage # vi /etc/lilo.
Linux Driver Support Step 2 Test the Driver Module You can test out the module to ensure that it works for your system by changing working directory to the location where hptiop.o resides and typing in the command “insmod hptiop.ko”. If you are using a distribution with 2.4 kernel, driver file should be hptiop.o. Sometimes insmod will report “unresolved symbols” when you attempt to load the module. This can be caused by two ways: 1. You haven’t loaded the SCSI module before loading hptiop.o.
Linux Driver Support Then you should inform the system load the module when system boots up with the following command: #echo “modprobe hptiop” > /etc/init.d/hptdriver #chmod 755 /etc/init.d/hptdriver #ln –sf /etc/init.d/hptdriver /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S01hptdriver #ln –sf /etc/init.d/hptdriver /etc/rc.d/rc4.d/S01hptdriver #ln –sf /etc/init.d/hptdriver /etc/rc.d/rc5.
Linux Driver Support RR3540 driver on an Existing System”. Overwrite the driver file in the directory “/lib/modules/`uname –r`/kernel/drivers/scsi/”. #cp –f /tmp/hptiop.ko /lib/ modules/`uname –r`/kernel/drivers/scsi/ 2. If you are using a system installed to RR3540 controller, you can update the driver file in the directory “/lib/modules/`uname –r`/updates/”, then update the initrd file. #cp –f /tmp/hptiop.ko /lib/modules/‘uname –r‘/updates/ #mkinitrd initrd-‘uname –r‘.
Chapter 7 FreeBSD Driver Support Contents of this Chapter: 1 - Overview 2 - Installing FreeBSD on the RocketRAID 3540 Controller 3 - Installing the RocketRAID 3540 Driver on an Existing System 4 - Updating the Driver 5 - Installing RAID Management Software 6 - Uninstalling the Driver
FreeBSD Driver Support 1 - Overview The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use RocketRAID 3540 Controller on a FreeBSD system.
FreeBSD Driver Support On a FreeBSD system, you can use the “dd” command to make the driver diskette. For example, Insert a floppy disk into the floppy drive and type the following command if you are installing FreeBSD versions: # dd if=rr3xxx_4xxx-bsd.img of=/dev/fd0 Step 4 Install FreeBSD 1. Start installing the FreeBSD by booting from installation CD. 2. If you are installing FreeBSD 5.
FreeBSD Driver Support ok load disk1:hptiop-4.4.ko for FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE ok load disk1:hptiop-4.5.ko for FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE ok load disk1:hptiop-4.6.2.ko for FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE ok load disk1:hptiop-4.7.ko for FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE ok load disk1:hptiop-4.8.ko for FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE ok load disk1:hptiop-4.9.ko for FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE ok load disk1:hptiop-4.10.ko for FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE ok load disk1:hptiop-4.11.ko for FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE ok load disk0:hptiop-5.0.ko for FreeBSD 5.
FreeBSD Driver Support for FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE ok load disk0:hptiop-5.4.ko for FreeBSD 5.4-AMD64-RELEASE ok load disk0:hptiop-5.4-amd64.ko for FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE ok load disk0:hptiop-5.5.ko for FreeBSD 5.5-AMD64-RELEASE ok load disk0:hptiop-5.5-amd64.ko for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE ok load disk0:hptiop-6.0.ko for FreeBSD 6.0-AMD64-RELEASE ok load disk0:hptiop-6.0-amd64.ko for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE ok load disk0:hptiop-6.1.ko for FreeBSD 6.1-AMD64-RELEASE ok load disk0:hptiop-6.1-amd64.ko for FreeBSD 6.
FreeBSD Driver Support for FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE ok load disk0:hptiop-6.3.ko for FreeBSD 7.0-AMD64-RELEASE ok load disk0:hptiop-6.3-amd64.ko 5. After the driver has been loaded, remove the floppy diskette from the floppy drive. 6. Type in “boot” and continue the installation as normal. You can refer to FreeBSD installation guide. ok boot 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.
FreeBSD Driver Support 3 - Installing RR3xxx/4xxx Driver on an Existing System If you are currently running FreeBSD and would like to access drives or arrays attached to the RR3xxx/4xxx Controller, you can perform the following steps. Step 1 Copy the Driver Module If you have made freebsd drivers into a diskette, you can insert the driver diskette to floppy drive, then using the following commands to copy the driver module: for # # # for # # FreeBSD 4.x: mount –o ro /dev/fd0 /mnt cp /mnt/hptiop-xxx.
FreeBSD Driver Support (if you have no other SCSI device, the first device is /dev/da0, then /dev/da1, etc.). Example 1. Load it at boot loader for 5.0 or earlier version: F1 FreeBSD Default: F1 >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader boot: BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS driver A: is disk0 BIOS driver C: is disk2 BIOS 636kB/74512kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 (mailto:jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.
FreeBSD Driver Support Now you can mount /dev/da0s1e to somewhere to access it. Step 3 Configure System to Automatically Load the Driver Most likely, you will not want to type “load hptiop” each time you boot up the system. Therefore you must install the module and tell the system about it. To configure system to automatically load the driver, type in the following commands: # echo ’hptiop_load=”YES”’ >> /boot/defaults/loader.
FreeBSD Driver Support 5 - Installing RAID Management Software HighPoint RAID Management Software is used to configure and keep track of your hard disks and RAID arrays attached to RR3540 controller. Installation of the management software is optional but recommended. Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents about more information. 6 - Uninstalling You can only uninstall the driver when your system is not booting from devices attached to RR3540 controller.
Chapter 8 Mac OSX Driver Contents of this Chapter: Installing the driver and RAID utility 7-8
Mac OSX Driver 1 Installing the driver and RAID utility Installing the package 1. Double click the package labeled “rr3xxx-mac-v120-113007.dmg” to start the installation process (“xxx” refers to the revision of the driver). This will open the driver and software packag. 2. Double click the “rr3xxx-mac-v120-113007.dmg” file to start the installer. 3. When the Installer window opens, click the “Continue” button. 4. The installer will ask you to select a destination for the driver.
Appendix Customer Support
CustomerSupport Customer Support If you encounter any problems while utilizing the RocketRAID 3540, or have any questions about this or any other HighPoint product, feel free to contact our Customer Support Department. Troubleshooting Checklist Before contacting our Customer Support department: Make sure the latest BIOS, driver and RAID Software have been installed for the RocketRAID 3540. Updates are available from our website.
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