RocketRAID 3122 SATAII Host Adapter User’s Guide Revision: 1.0 Date: June. 2008 HighPoint Technologies, Inc.
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Tables of Contents Table of Content Chapter 1 Introduction 1 - About this Guide ...................................................................................................1-1 2 - Introducing the RocketRAID 3122 Host Adapter .................................................1-1 3 - RocketRAID 3122 – Features and Specifications ..................................................1-2 4 - Understanding RAID Concepts and Terminology ................................................
Table of Contents Chapter 5 RocketRAID 3122 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 3122 Host Adapter RocketRAID 3122 – Features and Specifications Understanding RAID Concepts and Terminology
Introduction About this Guide The RocketRAID 3122 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. Introducing the RocketRAID 3122 Host Adapter The HighPoint RocketRAID 3122 is a 2-External-channel PCI-Express x1 to Serial ATA II RAID controller.
Introduction RocketRAID 3122 – Features and Specifications Host Adapter Architecture • Marvell 5182(400MHZ) IOP • PCI -Express x1 (x4, x8 and x16 slot compatible) • 2 eSATA 3Gb/s Device Port • Up to 2 SATA Hard Drives or 10 with PM (Port Multiplier) • NCQ (Native Command Queuing) • Low Profile Advance RAID Features • Support RAID 0, 1, 10, and JBOD • Multiple RAID support • Multiple Logical Drive Support • BIOS booting support • Online array roaming • Automatic RAID rebuild • Autom
Introduction RAID Management • TerabyteSaver™ and TerabyteGuard™ for Data Protection and Reliability • Online capacity expansion (OCE) and Online RAID level migration (ORLM) • Quick and Background initialization for instant RAID configuration • Firmware update in the Operating System • Hot key (ctrl-h) boot-up RAID manager via BIOS • API library for customizing AP • Command Line Interface (CLI) • Web browser-base RAID management software • SHI (Storage Health Inspector ¨C Drive analysis fr
Introduction Understanding RAID Concepts and Terminology The following concepts and terminology is commonly used when describing the functions of the RocketRAID 3122 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. Disk Status New The disk contains no data and has not been initialized.
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 single-disk JBOD array into a RAID 1 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 3122 The RocketRAID 3122 supports both Online Capacity Expansion (OCE), and Online RAID Level Migration (ORLM).
Chapter 2 RocketRAID 3122 Hardware Description/Installation Contents of this Chapter: RocketRAID 3122 Hardware 1 - RocketRAID 3122 Adapter Layout 2 - SAF-TE connector 3 - Installing the RocketRAID 3122 Host Adapter 4 - Verifying Installation
RocketRAID 3122 Hardware Description/Installation RocketRAID 3122 Hardware 1 – RocketRAID 3122 Adapter Layout Port1, Port 2 These represent the RocketRAID 3122’s two e.SATA ports. RocketRAID 3122 can support 2 SATA hard drives or 10 with PM (Port Multiplier). BEEP1 – Speaker Alarm (speaker): the speaker emits and audible alarm in the case of disk/array failure.
RocketRAID 3122 Hardware Description/Installation 2 - SAF-TE Connector The RocketRAID 3122 has one jumper. J1 is the SAF-TE (I2C) connector Pins defined as follows: Pin 1: SCL; Pin 2 : GND; Pin 3 : SDA. 3 - Installing the RocketRAID 3122 Host Adapter Note: Make sure the system is powered-off before installing the RocketRAID 3122 host adapter. The RocketRAID 3122 includes both standard and low-profile brackets.
RocketRAID 3122 Hardware Description/Installation 4. 5. 6. After installing the adapter, attach hard disks to the RocketRAID 3122 using SATA cables. Many server-level chassis include hard-disk hot-swap bays. For these system chassis, cables are attached to the chassis backplane, rather than directly to each individual hard disk. Consult the chassis’s manual for proper installation procedures. Close and Screw the system chassis.
RocketRAID 3122 Hardware Description/Installation 4 - Verifying Installation Once the RocketRAID 3122 host adapter and hard disks have been installed into the chassis, boot-up the system to verify that the hardware is properly recognized. 1. Power on the system. If the system detects the presence of the adapter, the RocketRAID 3122 BIOS Utility will be displayed during 2. Press Ctrl+H to access the RocketRAID 3122 BIOS Utility.
Chapter 3 RocketRAID 3122 BIOS Utility Contents of this Chapter: RocketRAID 3122 BIOS Utility 1 - BIOS Command Overview 2 - Creating RAID Arrays 3 - Adding/Removing Spare Disks 4 - Updating the Firmware
RocketRAID 3122 Bios Utility RocketRAID 3122 BIOS Utility The RocketRAID 3122’s BIOS Utility can be accessed using the “Ctrl+H” command. This command should be displayed automatically when the RocketRAID 3122’s BIOS screen appears during the system’s boot up procedure. 1 - BIOS Command Overview The RocketRAID 3122 BIOS Utility provides a wide selection of RAID related commands. These commands are displayed towards the top of the utility’s interface.
RocketRAID 3122 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 3122 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 3122 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 3122 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 3122 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 3122 Driver and Software Installation Microsoft Windows (2000, XP, 2003 Server, x64 versions, Vista) Contents of this Chapter: Driver and Software CD Windows Driver Installation
RocketRAID 3122 Driver and Software Installation Driver and Software CD The RocketRAID 3122 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. Insert the CD into the system’s CD/DVD drive. The program should start automatically. 2. Insert a blank floppy diskette into the system’s floppy drive. 3. Click on “Create Driver Diskette”. 4.
RocketRAID 3122 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”.
RocketRAID 3122 Driver and Software Installation 2. Select the desired software from the drop down menu, and click on the “OK” button. Windows Driver Installation Before installing the RocketRAID 3122 device driver, make sure the RocketRAID 3122 host adapter and all required hard disks have been installed into the system’s chassis (refer to the Hardware Installation section).
RocketRAID 3122 Driver and Software Installation When Windows asks to reboot the system, choose No. 5. Windows will then display a second “Found New Hardware Wizard” window – repeat steps 1 through 4. 6. Remove the Driver Installation diskette from the floppy drive, then Shut down and restart the computer. Installation Verification After the driver has been installed, and the system has been restarted: 1. Click the Start button, then right-click My Computer icon.
RocketRAID 3122 Driver and Software Installation Windows Vista Driver Installation Installing the driver during a fresh Windows Vista installation 1. 2. Boot from Windows Vista DVD. When the screen “where do you want to install Windows” appears, click “Load driver” and browse for the driver location. Windows Vista can install drivers from several media types: floppy diskette, USB flash disk or CD. Select the RocketRAID 3122 controller driver, and click “Next”.
Chapter 5 RocketRAID 3122 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 3122’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 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 OF 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation Overview SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) installation Overview
Linux Driver Support 1 - Overview The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use RocketRAID 3122 Controller on Fedora Linux system.
Linux Driver Support 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 (example): # dd if=rr312x-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.
Linux Driver Support 8. When prompted “Do you have a driver disk?” Select “Yes”. When prompted “Insert your driver disk and press OK to continue”, insert the driver diskette in the floppy drive and then select “OK”. The system will load RR3122 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.
Linux Driver Support Installation steps for Fedora Core2 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 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. You can find the driver module for your running kernel under the directory that matches your kernel version.
Linux Driver Support system as device /dev/sda. You can use “fdisk /dev/sda” to create a partition on it, which will be /dev/sda1, and use “mkfs /dev/sda1” to setup a file system on the partition. Then you can mount /dev/sda1 to somewhere to access it. Step 3 Configure System to Automatically Load the Driver Most likely, you will not want to type in “insmod hptmviop.o” each time you boot up the system. Therefore you must install the module and tell the system about it.
Linux Driver Support Checking Devices Status Using the following command to show driver status: # cat /proc/scsi/hptmviop/x This command will show the driver version number, physical device list and logical device list. 5 - Updating the Driver 1. If the original driver is installed in the system initrd file (e.g. when OS is installed to RR3122 controller), you can update the driver as below: # cp hptmviop.
Linux Driver Support 1 - Overview The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use RocketRAID 3122 Controller on Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS system. Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents about more information.
Linux Driver Support 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=rr312x-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 RR3122 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 hptmviop.o resides and typing in the command “insmod hptmviop.ko”. If you are using a distribution with 2.4 kernel, driver file should be hptmviop.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 hptmviop.o.
Linux Driver Support Then you should inform the system load the module when system boots up with the following command: #echo “modprobe hptmviop” > /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 RR312x driver on an Existing System”. Overwrite the driver file in the directory “/lib/modules/`uname –r`/kernel/drivers/scsi/”. #cp –f /tmp/hptmviop. ko /lib/modules/`uname –r`/kernel/drivers/scsi/ 2. If you are using a system installed to RR3122 controller, you can update the driver file in the directory “/lib/modules/`uname –r`/updates/”, then update the initrd file. #cp –f /tmp/hptmviop.ko /lib/modules/‘uname –r‘/updates/ #mkinitrd initrd-‘uname –r‘.
Linux Driver Support 1 - Overview The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use Rocket RAID 3122 Controller on SLES Linux system.
Linux Driver Support 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=rr312x-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. Insert the Driver Disk when it displays “Please insert the Driver Update floppy”. 4.
Linux Driver Support 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. The following example shows how to extract the driver modules for SLES 9 from driver diskette: # mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy # cd / # tar xfz /media/floppy/linux/suse/i386-sles9/install/update.tar.
Linux Driver Support INITRD_MODULES=..., e.g: INITRD_MODULES=”reiserfs hptmviop” 2. Run depmod to update module configuration: # depmod 3. Run mkinitrd to update the initrd file: # mkinitrd 4. If you are using lilo boot loader, run lilo again: # lilo Step 5 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.
Chapter 7 FreeBSD Driver Support Contents of this Chapter: 1 - Overview 2 - Installing FreeBSD on RocketRAID 3122 Controller 3 - Installing RR3122 Driver on an Existing System 4 - Updating the Driver 5 - Installing RAID Management Software 6 - Uninstalling
FreeBSD Driver Support FreeBSD Driver Support 1 - Overview The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use RocketRAID 3122 Controller on a FreeBSD system.
FreeBSD Driver Support # dd if=rr312x-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 5.0 or earlier versions: When “Hit [enter] to boot immediately or any other key for command prompt” screen appears, press SPACE key to stop loader from autobooting. BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.
FreeBSD Driver Support for FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE ok load disk1:hptmviop-4.6.2.ko for FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE ok load disk1:hptmviop-4.7.ko for FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE ok load disk1:hptmviop-4.8.ko for FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE ok load disk1:hptmviop-4.9.ko for FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE ok load disk1:hptmviop-4.10.ko for FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE ok load disk1:hptmviop-4.11.ko for FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE ok load disk0:hptmviop-5.0.ko for FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE ok load disk0:hptmviop-5.1.ko for FreeBSD 5.2.
FreeBSD Driver Support ok load disk0:hptmviop-5.5-amd64.ko for FreeBSD 6.0-AMD64-RELEASE ok load disk0:hptmviop-6.0-amd64.ko for FreeBSD 6.1-AMD64-RELEASE ok load disk0: hptmviop-6.1-amd64.ko for FreeBSD 6.2-AMD64-RELEASE ok load disk0: hptmviop-6.2-amd64.ko for FreeBSD 6.3-AMD64-RELEASE ok load disk0: hptmviop-6.3-amd64.ko for FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE ok load hptmviop.ko for FrRELEASE reeBSD 7.0-AMD64ok load hptmviop.ko 4. After the driver has been loaded, remove the floppy diskette from the floppy drive.
FreeBSD Driver Support # umount /mnt For FreeBSD 7.x version: press Alt-F4 to the command shell and type the following commands: # echo ‘hptmviop_load=”YES”’ >>/boot/defaults/loader.conf Then press Alt-F1 to return to the setup screen and choose [X Exit Install] to finish setup. 3 - Installing RR3122 Driver on an Existing System If you are currently running FreeBSD and would like to access drives or arrays attached to the RR3122 Controller, you can perform the following steps.
FreeBSD Driver Support FreeBSD 7.x version natively supports RR3122, and its built-in driver module hptmviop. ko is located at /boot/kernel/hptmviop.ko. Step 2 Test the Driver Module You can test out the module to ensure that it works for your system by load it during system booting. If the module has been loaded successfully you should see the RR3122 banner and a display screen of the attached drives.
FreeBSD Driver Support <-press SPACE key Type ’?’ for a list of commands, ’help’ for more detailed help. ok load hptmviop /modules/hptmviop.ko text=0xf571 data=0x2c8+0x254 ok autoboot 2. Load it at boot loader for 5.1 or later version: when “Welcome to FreeBSD” screen appears, select “6”, an “ok” prompt will appear. ok 3. load hptmviop Load it when system is running: #kldload hptmviop Note: If you have configured a RAID 5 using 8 disks, it will be registered to system as device /dev/da0.
FreeBSD Driver Support 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. You can add the following line to tell the system to mount /dev/da1s1e to location /mnt/hpt after startup: /dev/da1s1e /mnt/hpt ufs rw 0 0 4 - Updating the Driver To update the driver with a new version you simply reinstall the driver following the previous section, “Install the driver on an existing system”.
FreeBSD Driver Support 6 - Uninstalling You can only uninstall the driver when your system is not booting from devices attached to RR3122 controller. Just remove the line hptmviop_load=”YES” in /boot/defaults/loader.conf, and then delete the driver module /modules/hptmviop. ko or /boot/kernel/hptmviop.ko.
Chapter 8 Mac OSX Driver Contents of this Chapter: Installing the driver and RAID utility
Mac OSX Driver Mac OSX Driver 1 Installing the driver and RAID utility Installing the package 1. Double click the package labeled “rr3122-MacOSX-universal-vxxx.dmg” to start the installation process (“xxx” refers to the revision of the driver). This will open the driver and software package. 2. Double click the “rr3xxx-MacOSX-universal-vxxx.dmg” file to start the installer: 3. When the Installer window opens, click the “Continue” button. 4.
Mac OSX Driver 7. The driver will then be installed into the system. Click “Restart” to restart the system. After the system restarts, you can use a web browser to configure the controller and setup RAID arrays. Use the MacOSX Disk Utility to create partitions the RAID arrays. Web RAID Management Utility Please refer to page 5-1 – the Web utility utilizes a universal interface, and operates in the same manner as revisions released for other operating systems.
Appendix Customer Support
CustomerSupport Customer Support If you encounter any problems while utilizing the RocketRAID 3122, 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 3122. Updates are available from our website.
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