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RocketRAID 2224 User`s Manual

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2. 4 Verifying Installation Once the RocketRAID 2224 host adapter and hard disks have been installed into the chassis boot up the system to verify that the hardware is properly recognized 0 Power on the system If the system detects the presence of the adapter the RocketRAID 2224 BIOS will be displayed 0 Press Ctrl H to access the RocketRAID 2224 BIOS Utility The BIOS Utility will display information about hard disks attached to the adapter 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 power and SATA cable connections RocketRAID 2224 BIOS Utility RocketRAID 2224 BIOS Utility The RocketRAID 2224 s BIOS Utility can be accessed using the Ctrl H command This command should be displayed automatically when the RocketRAID 2224 s BIOS screen appears during the system s boot up procedure 1 BIOS Command Overview The RocketRAID 2224 BIOS Utility provides a wide selection of RAID related commands These commands are displayed towards the top of the utility s interface Rocket RAID 2224 BIOS Setting Utility v1 6 lt c 2064 2005 HighPoint Technologies Inc All rights reserved elp Press lt Ctrl gt lt H gt to run BIOS Setting Utility Use the lt arrow keys to scroll through the various commands and the T 4 arrows to browse through the corresponding command menus Use the ENTER key to execute the selected command The ESC
3. Configured The disk has been assigned to one or more arrays or configured as a spare disk Legacy The disk was used on other controllers before use with the RocketRAID 2224 see legacy disk below Array initialization A redundant array RAIDS RAIDI RAID10 needs to be initialized to ensure full performance and reliability Non redundant arrays RAIDO JBOD do not need to be initialized When you create a redundant array using the RocketRAID 2224 controller s BIOS Configuration Utility it will create the array in un initialized state The initialization process can be completed after installing the driver and management software When creating an array using the HighPoint RAID Management Console software you can specify an initialization option Skip initialization foreground and background Foreground initialization Foreground initialization will zero out all data on the array The array is not accessible by the operating system until initialization is complete Background initialization Background initialization allows the array to be used immediately For RAID1 and RAIDIO arrays initialization will results in data being duplicated identically to the mirror pair For RAIDS arrays initialization will result in parity being generated from all array members Note An un initialized RAIDI or RAIDIO array can still provide redundancy in case of a disk failure A RAIDS array however is not fault tolerant until initialization
4. Delete a Scheduled Task This command is used to delete a Scheduled Task for the selected remote system To delete a Task Schedule 1 Select a task from the Task schedule list 2 Click the Delete button on the toolbar 10 Configuring Remote Systems Then HighPoint RAID Management Console manages a RAID controller through a connection to the HighPoint RAID Management Service which runs on the system where the RAID host adapter is physically installed This type of system is referred to as a remote system Note What the software classifies as a remote system may not always be an actual remote computer In some configurations the local computer hosts both the RAID host adapter and Management Service The local system in these cases is still generically referred to as a remote system Add a Connection This command is used to add new connection to a remote system To Add a Connection 1 Highlight the File menu and select the Remote Control function 2 Click the Add button on the toolbar or select the Add command from the Operation menu 3 Enter the system address name and port information in the pop up window x System Address X Cancel System Name System Port 7402 The system address can be a host name or an IP address The default system port is 7402 4 Click OK to finish adding the new connection 27 Modify a Connection This c
5. Disks must be selected one a time If you wish to remove a selected disk highlight it from the selected disk section and use the button to move it to the available disk section Note The selection sequence is important the order in which the disks are selected will determine the disk sequence of the array 7 Select the capacity the RocketRAID 2224 can create multiple arrays on the same set of drives As a result of this feature you have the option of assigning a physical disk to multiple RAID arrays Press Enter to use the default value the maximum capacity for the array or specify the desired value using the keyboard and press Enter to confirm this selection Then click the Finish button Note If you have specified an initialization option the initialization process will start automatically A progress bar will be displayed towards the bottom of the interface window and will indicate completion and provide an estimate of the time needed to complete the initialization procedure 4 Deleting an Array To delete an array 1 Highlight the Management menu then select the Array Management function 2 Highlight the array you want to delete then click on the Delete Icon or select the Delete command from the Operation menu 3 A warning message will appear Click Yes to delete the array Click No to stop this procedure Note An array in use by the operating system cannot be deleted Any data stored on a
6. In sf etc init d hptdriver etc rc d rc3 d S01hptdriver In sf etc init d hptdriver etc rc d rc4 d SO 1 hptdriver In sf etc init d hptdriver etc rc d rc5 d SO 1 hptdriver 37 Step 4 Configure System to Mount Volumes during Startup The system can be instructed to automatically mount the array s during startup by modifying the file etc fstab For example add the following line to tell the system to mount dev sdal to location mnt raid after startup dev sdal mnt raid ext2 defaults 00 4 Updating the Driver If you are not booting from disks attached to RocketRAID 2224 controller you can update the driver just by reinstalling it following the procedure outlined in the previous section Installing the RocketRAID 2224 driver for an Existing System If you are running the system installed to a disk or array attached to the RocketRAID 2224 First obtain the new driver module hptmv6 0 Refer to the previous section Obtain the Driver Module In following steps we assume it has been copied to tmp hptmv6 o Replace hptmv6 0 in the boot RAM disk image boot initrd xxx img where xxx is the kernel version Example 2 4 21 4 EL for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 0 gzip dc boot initrd xxx img gt tmp initrd ext2 mkdir mnt initrd mount o loop tmp initrd ext2 mnt initrd cp tmp hptmv6 o mnt initrd lib hptmv6 o umount mnt initrd gzip c tmp initrd ext2 gt boot initrd xxx img If you
7. RAID array has been configured between several hard disks This array will be registered to the system as device dev sda 1 To create a partition on this array which will listed as dev sdal use the fdisk dev sda command 2 Next use the mkfs dev sdal command to setup a file system on this partition 3 Use the command mkdir xxxx to create a mount point for the RAID array Then mount dev sdal xxxx in order to access it Note xxxx represents the desired name of the mount point Step 4 Configure System to Automatically Load the Driver To avoid typing in insmod hptmv6 o each time the operating system is booted the system must be instructed to automatically load the module during bootup To install the module type in the following commands first change to the directory where the proper hptmv6 ko file is located 1 Edit the file etc svsconfig kernel and add the hptmv6 module to the line INITRD MODULES Example INITRD_MODULES reiserfs hptmv6 2 Run the depmod command to update the module configuration depmod 3 Next run the mkinitrd command to update the initrd file mkinitrd 4 If you are using the lilo boot loader run lilo again lilo Step 5 Configure System to Mount Volumes during Startup The system can be instructed to automatically mount the array s during startup by modifying the file etc fstab For example add the following line to tell the s
8. The driver module for the active kernel is located under the directory that matches the kernel version tmp uname r 1686 hptmv6 ko After extracting the driver module load it using the following commands modprobe sd_mod ff cd tmp uname r insmod hptmv6 ko Arrays attached to the adapter can be accessed as SCSI devices e g dev sda Step 2 Mounting and Partitioning the Device Example A RAID array has been configured between several hard disks This array will be registered to the system as device dev sda To create a partition on this array which will listed as dev sdal use the fdisk dev sda command Next use the mkfs dev sdal command to setup a file system on this partition Use the command mkdir xxxx to create a mount point for the RAID array Then mount dev sdal xxxx in order to access it Note xxxx represents the desired name of the mount point Step 3 Configure System to Automatically Load the Driver To avoid typing in insmod hptmv6 ko each time the operating system is booted the system must be instructed to automatically load the module during bootup To install the module type in the following commands first change to the directory where the proper hptmv6 ko file is located cp hptmv6 ko lib modules uname r kernel drivers scsi depmod Then instruct the system to load the module when booting Use the following commands echo modprobe hptmv6 gt etc init
9. are using lilo to boot the system use lilo to reinstall the RAM disk lilo Update hptmv6 0 in lib modules cp tmp hptmv6 o lib modules uname r kernel drivers scsi hptmv6 o Reboot your system to allow the new driver take effect 5 Uninstalling the Driver To uninstall the RocketRAID 2224 driver Note The driver cannot be uninstalled while the system is booted from a disk or array attached to the RocketRAID 2224 To uninstall the driver remove the lines added to etc fstab and remove the files created in the etc init d directory 38 1 SuSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES installation Overview This section provides instructions describing how to install and utilize the RocketRAID 2224 Adapter on a SuSE SLES Linux system 2 Installing SLES Linux on the RocketRAID 2224 Host Adapter Note If the OS is running kernel that differs from the one supported by the precompiled driver the precompiled drivers cannot be used A driver can be built for this kernel using the OpenSource package for the RocketRAID 2224 controller This package is available from our website and is posted on the BIOS Driver page for the RocketRAID 2224 To install SLES onto hard disks or RAID arrays attached to RocketRAID 2224 controller follow the steps outlined below Step 1 Prepare the Driver Diskette The driver is contained in a floppy diskette image file slesdd img On a DOS or Windows system a driver diskette can be generated
10. button can be used to cancel the selected command or return to the previous command menu Create this command is used to create RAID arrays Section x 2 discusses this command in detail Delete this command will delete the selected RAID array Warning This command may result in permanent data loss it should only be used if data stored on the target array is no longer relevant or has been backed up to an alternate storage device Add Remove Spare this command is used to assign hard disks to function as spare disks The controller is capable of using spare disks to automatically rebuild broken or faulted RAID arrays Page 12 discusses this command in detail Settings Set Boot Mark this function is used to designate a particular disk or RAID array to function as the RocketRAID 2224 s boot device Note This setting is only relevant if the motherboard s BIOS has set the RocketRAID 2224 to function as the system s primary boot device Staggered spin up This function is used to enable or disable staggered drive spin up support Staggered drive spin up by default is disabled When enabled the RocketRAID 2224 will power up the hard disks one at a time approximately every two seconds View this command is used to select between two views Press the ENTER key to change the view Devices displays information about hard disks attached to the RocketRAID 2224 Use the f arrow keys to highlight the target hard disk and
11. d hptdriver chmod 755 etc init d hptdriver 34 Step 3 Configure System to Automatically Load the Driver continued In sf etc init d hptdriver etc rc d rc3 d SO Ihptdriver In sf etc init d hptdriver etc rc d rc4 d SO 1 hptdriver In sf etc init d hptdriver etc re d rc5 d SO 1 hptdriver Step 4 Configure System to Mount Volumes during Startup The system can be instructed to automatically mount the array s during startup by modifying the file etc fstab For example add the following line to tell the system to mount dev sdal to location mnt raid after startup dev sdal mnt raid ext3 defaults 00 4 Updating the Driver 0 If the original driver is installed in the system s initrd Initial RAM Disk file when using a system installed to RR2224 controller for example the driver module in the initrd file should be updated using the mkinitrd command or extract the initrd file and replace the driver module manually 0 If the original driver is installed in the lib modules uname r kernel drivers scsi directory and loaded by the script file Example etc init d hptdriver during the init process or the configure file Example etc modules conf please replace it with the new driver hptmv6 ko 5 Uninstalling the Driver To uninstall the RocketRAID 2224 driver Note The driver cannot be uninstalled while the system is booted from a disk or array attached to the RocketRAID 2224 To unins
12. have configured a RAID 10 using 4 disks it will be registered to system as device dev da0 You can use stand sysinstall to create partitions and disklabels like daOsle on da0 Then create a new filesystem using newfs dev da0sle Now you can mount dev da0s1le to somewhere to access it Step 3 Configure System to Automatically Load the Driver To avoid typing in load hptmv6 each time the operating system is booted the system must be instructed to automatically load the module during bootup To configure the system to automatically install the module type in the following commands echo hptmv6 load YES gt gt boot defaults loader conf This command will instruct the loader to load the RR2224 module together with the kernel After using this command reboot the system The RR2224 module should now automatically load each time the operating system starts up Note When using FreeBSD 4 x type in the following command to configure the system mknod dev hptmv6 c 200 0 Then check to make sure the node dev hptmv6 is present in the dev directory 47 Step 4 Configure the System to Mount Volumes at Startup Instruct the system to automatically mount the array by modifying the file etc fstab Example Add the following line to instruct the system to mount dev dalsle to location mnt hpt after startup dev dalsle mnt hpt ufs rw 0 0 3 Updating the Driver To update the driver with a newer revision
13. press ENTER to view the information RAID Arrays displays information about RAID arrays attached to the RocketRAID 2224 Use the T 4 arrow keys to highlight the target array and press ENTER to view the information Initialize this function is used to prepare disks for use with RAID arrays Note Arrays cannot be created between disks that have not been initialized Section x 2 discusses this command in detail 2 Creating RAID Arrays Initializing Disks Before creating a RAID array the disks must be initialized Initialization writes necessary RAID configuration information to the hard disk Use the lt arrow keys to select the Initialize command and press ENTER Warning Initialization will destroy all pre existing data on the selected hard disks Use the arrow keys to highlight the target hard disk s and press ENTER Next press the Y yes key to initialize the selected disk s or N no key to cancel the initialization process Once initialized these disks can be utilized to create RAID arrays To create an array 1 Use the arrow keys to highlight the Create command and press ENTER to open the Create Menu 2 Use the f arrow keys to select the appropriate RAID level then press ENTER 3 Next use the 4 arrow key to highlight the Array Name option and press ENTER The array name dialogue box will appear Use the keyboard to input a new Array Name and press the Enter key Note the Array Nam
14. simply reinstall the driver following the steps discussed in the previous section Install the driver on an existing system 4 Uninstalling the Driver The driver can only be uninstalled when the system is not booting from devices attached to the RR2224 controller To uninstall remove the line hptmv6_load YES located in boot defaults loader conf and then delete the driver module modules hptmv6 ko or boot kernel hptmv6 ko 48 Customer Support If you encounter any problems while utilizing the RocketRAID 2224 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 2224 Updates are available from our website Prepare a list of the computer system s hardware and software motherboard CPU memory other PCI devices host adapters operating system applications Contact Information E mail address support highpoint tech com Phone 510 623 0968 request for support 9 00AM 5 00PM Pacific Standard Time Additional information about HighPoint products is available from our web site http www highpoint tech com 49 FCC Part 15 Class B Radio Frequency Interference statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to pa
15. 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 Select the Properties item from the pop up menu In the pop up window select Hardware tab and then click Device Manager button Double click the SCSI and RAID controllers entry If the RocketRAID 2224 device entry is not displayed or there are or marks displayed near the RocketRAID 2224 entry the driver has not been installed properly Delete the entries and reinstall the driver Installing the RocketRAID 2224 driver during a fresh Windows 2000 XP 2003 installation 1 After booting from the Windows 2000 XP 2003 CD ROM when the Windows XP 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 2 The setup procedure will continue and will later instruct you to press the S key to specify additional adapters Press the S key as instructed 3 Next the setup program will prompt for the insertion of the driver diskette Please insert the driver diskette and then press ENTER to continue 4 The next window will display several driver options Please select the RocketRAID 2224 Controller for the corresponding operating system and press ENTER to continue 1 Installing the RAID Management Console In
16. tmp uname r hptmv6 o After you have extracted the driver module you can load it by following commands modprobe sd_mod ff cd tmp uname r insmod hptmv6 o Arrays attached to the adapter can be accessed as SCSI devices e g dev sda Step 2 Mounting and Partitioning the Device Example A RAID array has been configured between several hard disks This array will be registered to the system as device dev sda To create a partition on this array which will listed as dev sdal use the fdisk dev sda command Next use the mkfs dev sdal command to setup a file system on this partition Use the command mkdir xxxx to create a mount point for the RAID array Then mount dev sdal xxxx in order to access it Note xxxx represents the desired name of the mount point Step 3 Configure System to Automatically Load the Driver To avoid typing in insmod hptmv6 o each time the operating system is booted the system must be instructed to automatically load the module during bootup To install the module type in the following commands first change to the directory where the proper hptmv6 o file is located install d lib modules uname r kernel drivers scsi install c hptmv6 o lib modules uname r kernel drivers scsi Then instruct the system to load the module when booting Use the following commands echo modprobe hptmv6 gt etc init d hptdriver chmod 755 etc init d hptdriver
17. xxx ko modules hptmv6 ko vnconfig du vnOc myfilesystem mount mnt For FreeBSD 5 x mdconfig a t vnode f freebsd 5 x img u 0 mount dev mdO mnt cp mnt hptmv xxx ko boot kernel hptmv6 ko umount mnt mdconfig d u mdO THE He cH GE 46 Step 2 Test the Driver Module Test the driver module to ensure that it works with the system by loading it during bootup If the module has been loaded successfully you should see the RR2224 banner and a display screen of the attached drives You can now access the drives as a SCSI device Note If you have no other SCSI device the first device is dev daQ0 then dev dal etc Example F1 FreeBSD Default F1 gt gt 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 disko BIOS driver C is disk2 BIOS 636kB 74512kB available memory FreeBSD i386 bootstrap loader Revision 0 8 mailto jkh narf osd bsdi com Sat Apr 21 08 46 19 GMT 2001 Loading boot defaults loader conf kernel text 0x24fldb data 0x3007ec 0x2062c lt For FreeBSD 5 1 and later select 6 on Welcome to FreeBSD screen Hit Enter to boot immediately or any other key for command prompt Booting kernel in 9 seconds lt press SPACE key Type for a list of commands help for more detailed help ok load hptmv6 modules hptmv6 ko text 0xf571 data 0x2c8 0x254 ok autoboot Note If you
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19. RocketRAID 2224 SATAII Host Adapter User s Guide Revision 1 0 Date August 2005 HighPoint Technologies Inc Copyright Copyright 2005 HighPoint Technologies Inc This document contains materials protected by International Copyright Laws All rights reserved No part of this manual may be reproduced transmitted or transcribed in any form and for any purpose without the express written permission of HighPoint Technologies Inc Trademarks Companies and products mentioned in this manual are for identification purpose only Product names or brand names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective owners Backup your important data before using HighPoint s products and use at your own risk In no event shall HighPoint be liable for any loss of profits or for direct indirect special incidental or consequential damages arising from any defect or error in HighPoint s products or manuals Information in this manual is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of HighPoint Notice Reasonable effort has been made to ensure that the information in this manual is accurate HighPoint assumes no liability for technical inaccuracies typographical or other errors contained herein ji Table of Contents INTRODUCING THE ROCKETRAID 2224 HOST ADAPTER seen Product Features ccescscasccsscsscasececsaccsdscesasseceades ddcceoasssvessosececebecsevcd
20. appear n x HighPoint RAID Management Console Array Management File Management View Operation Help Create am P T Delete a 1 Create Delete Tum Jisk Unplug VE RER iid Disk Unplug Initialize Rebuild Name OCE ORLM stop Status Rescan System OS Select the desired RAID level from the drop down list Enter a name for the array using the keyboard this is optional and click the Next button If you are creating a redundant array RAID 1 5 10 select an initialization option If you are creating a RAID 0 or JBOD volume skip to step 6 For RAIDI and RAID 10 arrays the default initialization method is No initialization For RAIDS arrays the default initialization method is Foreground If you are creating RAIDS you will be asked to specify a cache policy Write back when the write back setting is selected all write requests sent to the array are cached This will result in higher performance but data loss may occur in case of a power failure Write through when the write through setting is selected all write requests sent to the array are passed directly to the disks However subsequent reads may still be completed from the cache if appropriate Select which disks are to be used to create the array Highlight the desired disk from the left side of the interface available disks then click on the button to move the disk to the right side of the interface selected disks
21. ction 2 Highlight the array that needs to be rebuilt 3 Click the Rebuild button on the toolbar or select the Rebuild command from the Operation menu Verifying an Array For a RAID 1 or RAID 10 array the verify process compares the data of one mirror pair with the other single hard disk in the case of RAIDI and a paired set of disks for RAID 10 For RAID 5 the verify process calculates RAIDS parity and compares it to the parity data on the array Verification checks each sector on a given disk Periodic verification of an array allows the disk drive firmware to take corrective actions on problem areas on the disk minimizing the occurrence of uncorrectable read and write errors To verify an array 1 Highlight the Management menu and select the Array Management function 2 Highlight the array you want to verify 3 Click the Verify button on the toolbar or select the Verify command from the Operation menu 4 Verify process will start 7 OCE ORLM The RocketRAID 2224 supports both OCE Online Capacity Expansion and ORLM Online RAID Level Migration The RAID software provides support for these features through a single function known as OCE ORLM With the OCE ORLM function you can transform an array from one RAID level to another RAID level and or resize the array dynamically even under I O load To perform OCE ORLM on an array 1 Highlight the Management menu and select the Array Management func
22. deleted array will be inaccessible 5 Configuring Spare Disks Spare disks can be used to rebuild redundant RAID arrays in the case of failure To configure spare disks highlight the Management menu and select the Spare Management function The Spare Management window will appear To add a spare disk select it from the Available Disk list box and click the button to add the disk to the Spare Pool list box To remove a spare disk select it from the Spare Pool list box and click the button to remove the disk from the Spare Pool list box 20 6 Recovering Verifying Arrays When an array member hard disk of a redundant array fails the array will be marked as broken Broken arrays can be automatically rebuilt using hot spare disks see page 23 However if there are no available spare disks you can still rebuild the array by adding a new disk to it To add a disk to a broken array Highlight the Management menu and select the Array Management function Highlight the broken array that needs to be rebuilt Click the Add Disk button on the toolbar or select Add Disk command from the Operation menu If the disk is successfully added to the array rebuild process will start automatically Bep Ll Note In some instances a failed array will not rebuild automatically To manually start the rebuild process for a broken critical array 1 Highlight the Management menu and select the Array Management fun
23. e command is optional it is not necessary to name the array The array can be named at a later time and the name of the array can be changed at any time 4 On the Create menu use the arrow key to highlight the Select Devices item and press ENTER A device list will appear and display all available hard disk drives 5 Highlight the target disks that you want to use and press ENTER to select them After all of the disks have been selected press the ESC key to return to the Create Menu 6 Next Use the arrow key to highlight the Capacity GB option and press ENTER The total available capacity will be displayed Press ENTER if you wish to use all available space 7 If you wish to reserve disk space for additional arrays single disks use the keyboard to input the amount of space in GB you wish to set aside for this particular array and press ENTER Note Multiple arrays can be created using the same set of hard disk drives The Capacity option allows you to set aside disk space that be used to create another array or set as a spare disk 8 To complete the creation procedure use the 4 arrow key to highlight the Start Creation item and press ENTER 3 Adding Removing Spare Disks This command is used to assign a hard disk to act as a Spare Disk Spare Disks are used to automatically rebuild Redundant RAID arrays RAID 1 5 10 in the case of disk failure To set a hard disk to act as a Spare Disk use the 4 arrow keys t
24. e interface window 4 HighPoint RAID Management Console Arrav Management i E 8 x File Management View Operation Help F wrs F9 1 4 B Create Delete Rename Add Disk Unplug Verita Initialize Rebuild OCE ORLM Stop Rescan Overview of Function menus tabs File Remote Control view information about remote systems System Configuration switch between available remote systems User Management Add or remove users edit user profiles Password change the password Exit exit the utility interface Management RAID Management Create delete maintain RAID arrays Device Management check information or change settings for host adapters and hard disks Spare management create and assign spare disks System Notification Set up system notification options View Event view Views the event log Icon view view icon descriptions legend Operation This menu will list all available commands for the selected Function menu These commands are also represented in icon button form below the function menu tabs selections Help Search through help topics related to the RAID Management Console software View software version information 18 3 Creating an Array To create an array 1 2 Highlight the Management menu then select the Array Management function Click the Create button on the toolbar or select the Create command from the Operation menu The array creation wizard will
25. ement Software Browse the CD Exit 2 Click on the Please Select a Product drop down button and select RocketRAID 2220 2224 from the list Create driver diskette l X Please select a product Please selectthe diskette you wantto create windows driver cont To create a driver diskette continued 2 Click on the Please Select the Diskette you want to create drop down button and select the appropriate OS from the list i f HighPoint Products Software ED ux Create driver diskette xl Please selecta product RocketRAID 2220 2224 Please selectthe diskette you wantto create windows driver gt Windows drive Fedora Core 1 i385 driver Fedora Core 2 1386 driver Fedora Core 2 x86_64 driver Fedora Core 3 i385 driver Fedora Core 3 x85 54 driver Fedora Core 4 386 driver Fedora Core 4 x86 64 driver Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 0 driver amd64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 0 driver athlon Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 0 driver i586 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 0 driver 1686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 0 driver x66 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 0 driver amd64 SuSE Linux Enterprise 9 driver SuSE Linux 8 x driver SuSE Linux 9 0 driver SuSE Linux 9 1 driver SuSE Linux 9 2 driver 2 Click on the OK button to create the driver diskette To install the RAID software 22 Click on Install RAID Management Software iz HighPoin
26. fore assigning it to an array RocketRAID 2224 Hardware Description Installation RocketRAID 2224 Hardware 1 RocketRAID 2224 Adapter Layout SPEAKER 1 1 RocketRAID 2224 1HOd FlHOd Port1 Port4 These represent the RocketRAID 2224 s four internal SATA channels The SATA port furthest away from the surface of the adapter is always the odd numbered channel 1 3 while the port closest to the adapter is the even numbered channel 2 4 IB1 This represents the RR2224 s Infiniband port which supports up to 4 hard disks installed into an external disk enclosure such as our X4 SATAII disk enclosure CON2 CON3 LED connectors disk activity disk failure CON is designed for use with hard disk activity LED s while CONG provides disk failure LED support LED support is discussed in greater detail in the LED Connection section page 10 and in a separate document the RocketRAID 2224 LED guide which discusses LED installation for specific server chassis and will be available in downloadable form from our website JP5 SAF TE for Disk Enclosures This jumper is used to connect the RR2224 to an external disk enclosure enabling SAF TE for enclosures that support this feature and LED support Speaker Alarm speaker the speaker emits and audible alarm in the case of disk array failure 2 LED Connections DI through D8 represent SATA channels SATAI through SATA8 respectively The following diagrams de
27. ht the remote system you to establish a connection with 3 Click the Connect button on the toolbar or select the Connect command from the Operation menu 4 Enter the appropriate Login information in the pop up window 28 Connect to a Remote System Continued x en 2 a 3 r oa 2 m e a n3 System Port au a User Name f Tv Password X Cancel Note The initial user name password for a remote system is RAID hpt You are free to modify the username and password after the connection is established If the connection is successful established the application will retrieve the event logs from the remote system then switch to Array Management view Disconnect a Remote System This function closes the connection from a connected system To disconnect a remote system 1 Highlight the File menu and select the Remote Control function 2 Highlight the system you want to disconnect from 3 Select the Disconnect command from the Operation menu System Configuration This function is used to modify the service configuration on a remote system To change the service configuration 1 Highlight the File menu and select the Remote Control function 2 Highlight the remote system you want to modify 3 Select the System Configuration option from the Operation menu 4 Modify the information in the pop up window Syste
28. in the integrity of RAID arrays attached to the RocketRAID 2224 To setup and schedule tasks highlight the Management menu and select the Task Management function to open Task Management window Zi Delete Task Management B x M pd i New Task schedule list Details Name TaskType Create datetime Last modify date The Task Schedule list displays all of the tasks assigned to the selected remote system To view detailed information about a specific task highlight and Double click the task s name Add a Scheduled Task This command is used to add a Scheduled task for the selected remote system To add a new scheduled task Click the New button on the toolbar The new task schedule wizard will appear 25 HighPoint Technologies Inc Add a Scheduled Task continued New task schedule wizard Verify RAID 1 0 a 27 4 2005 a tartdate 2 4 2005 5 Endgste 2 4 2005 e lio end date TE Enter a name for the task Configure the frequency for the task Set the duration for the task Check the Enable the task option to activate this task Click Finish seppo 26 Modify a Scheduled Task This command is used to change settings for a scheduled task To Modify a Task Schedule 1 Select a task from the Task schedule list 2 Click the Modify button on the toolbar and modify the task settings in the pop up window
29. inue insert the driver diskette into the system s floppy drive and select OK 0 The system will now load the RocketRAID 2224 driver automatically 0 When prompted Where do you want to install the boot loader in the Boot Loader Configuration dialog select Master Boot Record MBR to instruct the system be to boot from the RocketRAID 2224 Continue the installation as normal You can refer to Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation guide Note 1 The system device mapping order is the same as the order shown in RocketRAID 2224 BIOS Setting Utility If no other SCSI adapters are installed the device marked as BOOT or HDDO will identified as dev sda HDD1 as dev sdb HDD as dev sdc etc When creating mount points boot must be mounted on dev sda 36 3 Installing the RR2224 driver for an Existing System Note If a SCSI adapter is used to boot the system make sure the RR2224 controller BIOS loads posts after the SCSI adapter s BIOS It may be necessary to move the adapter s to another PCI slot Step 1 Obtain the Driver Module Extract the module file from the file modules cgz from 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 The driver module for the active kernel is located under the directory that matches the kernel version
30. is finished Online Capacity Expansion OCE This feature allows disks to be added to existing RAID arrays in order to increase the array s capacity without fear of data loss Any number of disks can be added to an array at any time Data can be accessed and utilized even while being redistributed 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 2224 The RocketRAID 2224 supports both Online Capacity Expansion OCE and Online RAID Level Migration ORLM Both features are supported by a single function an array can be transformed from one RAID level to another RAID level while simultaneously being resized even under I O load Spare disk A spare disk is a single disk that can be used to automatically rebuild a redundant array in case of drive failure Spare disks may also be members of a RAID array Any available space on these disks may be used to rebuild other broken arrays Legacy disk Disks attached to the RocketRAID 2224 that contain valid partition tables will be identified as legacy disks A legacy disk attached to the RocketRAID 2224 can be accessed by the operating system but cannot be used to create RAID arrays A legacy disk must be initialized be
31. ld always stop the transform progress from the RAID Management software 5 Anunexpected 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 8 Misc Array Device Options Device Management The Device Management window provides configuration information about controllers the RocketRAID 2224 and other HighPoint host adapters channels and hard disks To access the Device Management window highlight the Management menu and select the Device Management function Changing Device Settings Depending upon the hard disk in question and support provided by the current device driver you can adjust settings for disk Read Ahead Write Cache TCQ and NCQ Each feature can be enabled or disabled individually S M A R T Status You can view S M A R T Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology data about a drive to help troubleshoot any problems that occur You can also setup periodical S M A R T status checks that send notification messages when S M A R T thresholds are exceeded To view the S M A R T status of a hard disk 1 Highlight the Management menu and select the Device Management function 2 Highlight the disk you want to examine 3 Select the SMART command from the Operation menu or click on the SM8AT button to display the S M A R T status settings window 22 SAF TE Management For Disk Enclosu
32. m Configuration 4 x Lyx System Port EUIS x Cancel Event Port 7403 System Port This is the TCP port number that the RAID Management Service uses to communicate with RAID Management Console When you connect to the service the port value you enter must be in accordance with the system port value on the service The default value is 7402 29 System Configuration Continued Event Port The client software will retrieve events through this port The default value is 7403 The System Port value must differ from the value assigned to the Event Port After you reset a system s configuration you should restart the service on that system for the changes to take effect 5 Click OK to apply the changes 11 Configuring Users and Privileges The RAID Management Console allows the Administrator to manage user accounts in its own database You can setup multiple users and assign different privileges levels for the purpose of RAID management Users can be assigned to each individual Remote System controlled by the RAID Management Console Highlight the File menu and select the User Management function to configure User related options for the selected remote system x A GRAD Add Delete The user management window lists all users assigned to the selected remote system The current active user will be designated with an icon Add a User This function adds a user account to the connected remote s
33. n tested and found to comply with the following European directives European Standard EN55022 1998 Class B European Standard EN55024 1998 50
34. ndow and follow the directions it provides On a Linux system use the dd command to generate a boot diskette Insert a floppy disk into the floppy drive and type the following command dd if fc3 1386 img of dev fd0 Note The driver disk image file depends on your core version and hardware Step 2 Install Fedora Linux Installation steps for Fedora Core 3 1 Boot from the Fedora Installation CD and start the install procedure 2 At the Welcome to Fedora Linux installation screen a prompt labeled boot will appear at the bottom of the screen Type in linux dd then press Enter boot linux dd 3 When prompted Do you have a driver disk select Yes At the Insert your driver disk and press OK to continue prompt insert the driver diskette in the floppy drive and then select OK 4 The system will now load the RocketRAID 2224 driver automatically 33 3 Installing the RocketRAID 2224 driver for an Existing System Note If a SCSI adapter is used to boot the system make sure the RocketRAID 2224 controller BIOS loads posts after the SCSI adapter s BIOS It may be necessary to move the adapter s to another PCI slot Step 1 Obtain the Driver Module Extract the module file from the file modules cgz from the driver disk using the following commands mount dev fd0 cd tmp gzip dc media floppy modules cgz cpio idumv Driver modules for all supported kernel versions will be extracted
35. ndow and follow it s prompt On a FreeBSD system 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 5 x versions dd if freebsd_5 x img of dev fd0 Step 2 Install FreeBSD 1 Start the FreeBSD installation procedure by booting from installation CD 2 If you are installing FreeBSD 5 0 or earlier versions skip this step When the Welcome to FreeBSD screen appears select 6 3 When the Hit enter to boot immediately or any other key for command prompt screen appears press the SPACE key to stop the loader from autobooting BTX loader 1 00 BTX version is 1 01 Console internal video keyboard BIOS driver A is disko BIOS driver B is diskl BIOS driver C is disk2 BIOS 636kB 74512kB available memory FreeBSD i386 bootstrap loader Revision 0 8 mailto jkh narf osd bsdi com Sat Apr 21 08 46 19 GMT 2001 Hit Enter to boot immediately or any other key for command prompt Booting kernel in 9 seconds x press SPACE key A prompted label ok will appear at the bottom of the screen 44 Step 2 Install FreeBSD continued 4 Insert the RR2224 driver diskette into floppy drive Type in load diskx hptmv6 x x quotation marks and then press enter for FreeBSD 4 3 REL EAS Ok load kernel ok load diskl hptmv6 4 3 ko for FreeBSD 4 4 REL EAS
36. ned below Note If a SCSI adapter is used to boot the system make sure the RocketRAID 2224 controller BIOS loads posts after the SCSI adapter s BIOS It may be necessary to move the adapter s to another PCI slot Step 1 Update Grub If you are running an SLES 9 SMP System you must first update the boot grub menu Ist Example default 0 timeout 8 title Linux kernel hd0 1 vmlinux root dev hdal acpi off initrd hd0 1 initrd Reboot the system to allow the new kernel parameters to take effect Step 2 Install the Driver Module Extract the module file from the file linux suse arch version install update tar gz from the driver disk using the following commands mount dev fd0 media floppy cd tar xfz media floppy linux suse i386 sles9 install update tar gz The driver modules will be extracted to the directory lib modules kernel ver kernel drivers scsi After you have extracted the driver module you can load it by following commands modprobe sd_mod insmod lib modules uname r kernel drivers scsi hptmv6 ko Then you can access the arrays attached to the controller as SCSI devices e g dev sda 40 Step 3 Mounting and Partitioning the Device Note Many versions of SuSE include YAST YAST is a graphical configuration utility that is capable of executing the commands described below We recommend using Y AST if available as it may help simplify the installation process Example A
37. o select a disk and press ENTER To remove the Spare Disk setting from a hard disk highlight the spare disk and press ENTER Generally single disks are designated to act as spares disks that are not configured into RAID arrays However in some instances disks that are members of RAID arrays may also be designated to act as a spare If the disks in question are part of a RAID array that did not utilize the full available capacity at the time of creation these disks may be used as spares For example a RAID 0 array was created between two 200GB hard disks but only 200GB of space out of a grand total of 400GB was assigned to that array In this example 200GB of disk space remains unallocated This unallocated space would allow these disks to be set as spares for a separate redundant array that falls into the same capacity range 200GB RocketRAID 2224 Driver and Software Installation Microsoft Windows 2000 XP 2003 Server Driver and Software CD The RocketRAID 2224 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 2 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 2 Click on Create Driver Diskette ighPoint Products Software CD ReadMe First Install RAID Manag
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39. ommand modifies connection information for a remote system To modify a connection 1 Highlight the File menu and select the Remote Control function 2 Highlight the system you want to modify 3 Click the Modify button on the toolbar or select the Modify command from the Operation menu FI 27 00 X Cancel System Address NET System Name Local Hosthptmyv6 System Port 7402 4 Enter new connection information in the pop up window and click OK to apply the changes Note The System Address cannot be modified If you insist on modifying this item you must first delete this connection and then add a new connection In addition the connected system cannot be modified you must first disconnect from this system Delete a Connection This command deletes a remote system from the connection list To delete a connection 1 Highlight the File menu and select the Remote Control function 2 Highlight the system you want to delete 3 Click the Delete button on the toolbar or select the Delete command from the Operation menu 4 A warning message will be displayed Click Yes to delete the item Select No to cancel this command Connect to a Remote System This command establishes a connection to a remote system for RAID management To connect to a remote system 1 Highlight the File menu and select the Remote Control function 2 Highlig
40. res File Management View Help Name Status Temperature 0 Fan Speed 0 Temperature Limit 60 Slot A Fail LED On Slot B Fail LED Off Slot C Fail LED Off Slot D Fail LED Off This feature allows the administrator to view and monitor a variety of SAF TE related attributes such as temperature readings of the disk enclosure disk failure and the status of the chassis cooling apparatus cooling fans Note This feature is dependent upon the external disk enclosure this function will not be available unless the enclosure supports SAF TE Renaming an Array 1 Highlight the Management menu and select the Array Management function 2 Highlight the array you want to rename 3 Click the Rename button on the toolbar or select the Rename command from the Operation menu 4 Enter a new name for the array using the keyboard and press the OK button to confirm your selection Note An array running background tasks cannot be renamed 9 Managing Events The HighPoint RAID Management Console will log all events that have occurred on any host adapter under its control Viewing Logged Events To view logged events 1 Highlight the View menu and select the Event View option 2 In the Event View window you can filer events clear events and save events to a file Configuring E mail notification To enable E mail notification 1 Highlight the Management menu and select the Event Notification func
41. rt 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected Consult the dealer or an experienced radio TV technician for help Modifications not expressly approved by the manufacturer could void the user s authority to operate the equipment under FCC rules This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the following two conditions 1 this device may not cause harmful interference and 2 this device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation European Union Compliance Statement This Information Technologies Equipment has bee
42. scribe the connector pin definitions for LED CON2 disk activity and CONG disk failure CON 1is not utilized by the RocketRAID 2224 CON2 Hard Disk Activity POWER 3 3V CON3 Hard Disk Failure 3 Installing the RocketRAID 2224 Host Adapter Note Make sure the system is powered off before installing the RocketRAID 2224 host adapter The RocketRAID 2224 includes both standard and low profile brackets It may be necessary to attach the low profile bracket in place of the standard bracket depending upon the chassis design 0 Open the system chassis and locate an unused PCI X slot 0 Remove the PCI slot cover 0 Gently insert the RocketRAID 2224 into the PCI slot and secure the bracket to the system chassis _L Lg L 1 RS 32 bit PCI Slots 64 bit PCI Slots 0 After installing the adapter attach individual hard disks to the RocketRAID 2224 using an SATA data cable or an external disk enclosure to the Infiniband port SATA cables have universal connections either end can be attached to the adapter or hard disk Each RocketRAID 2224 included 4 SATA cables for use with the 4 internal SATA channels 0 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 0 Close and secure the system chassis
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44. t Products Software CD ReadMe First Create Driver Diskette Browse the CD Exit 22 Select the desired software from the drop down menu and click on the OK button 15 Windows Driver Installation Before installing the RocketRAID 2224 device driver make sure the RocketRAID 2224 host adapter and all required hard disks have been installed into the system s chassis refer to the Hardware Installation section page 12 Installing the RocketRAID 2224 driver for an existing Windows XP 2003 system After the operating system has booted Windows XP 2003 will automatically detect the RocketRAID 2224 and request that a device driver be installed To install the device driver follow the steps outlined below 1 When the Found New Hardware Wizard window appears select Install from a list or specific location Advanced and click Next to continue Click on the Include this location in the search option and select the system s floppy drive generally Disk A Next insert the Driver Installation diskette into the system s floppy drive At the Hardware Wizard screen select the floppy drive as the source then click the Next button Select the Win2003 folder then click the Next button Windows will display a warning message that states the driver has not been signed Select Continue Anyway then click Finish when prompted Remove the Driver Installation diskette from the floppy drive then Shut down and restart
45. tall the driver remove the lines added to etc fstab and remove the files created in the etc init d directory 35 1 Red Hat Enterprise 3 Overview This section provides instructions describing how to install and utilize the RocketRAID 2224 Adapter on a Red Hat Enterprise 3 Linux system 2 Installing Red Hat Enterprise 3 AS ES WS Linux on the RocketRAID 2224 controller To install Red Hat Enterprise Linux onto disks or RAID arrays attached to RocketRAID 2224 Step 1 Prepare the Driver Diskette The driver is provided in a floppy diskette image file format On a DOS or Windows system a driver diskette can be generated using rawrite exe This utility is included on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CD under dosutils Run rawrite using a command prompt window and follow the directions it provides On a Linux system use the dd command to generate a boot diskette Insert a floppy disk into the floppy drive and type the following command amd64 driver for example dd if rh3dd amd64 img of dev fd0 Step 2 Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 0 Start installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux by booting from the installation CD 0 Atthe Welcome to Red Hat Linux installation screen a prompt labeled boot will appear at the bottom of the screen Type in linux dd then press Enter boot linux dd 0 When prompted Do you have a driver disk Select Yes 0 When prompted Insert your driver disk and press OK to cont
46. terface Overview To install the RAID software from diskettes locate the setup exe file located on the floppy diskette labeled DISK 1 or the Diski folder if the software was downloaded Double click this file to start the Installation Wizard There is no need to restart the system after installing the software To start the software double click the picture icon on the desktop Note If the system chassis supports SAF TE make sure to select the corresponding chassis type manufacturer when prompted A unique profile is included for the X4 disk enclosure Logging On The RAID Management Console requires that a user or Administrator log on The software is incapable of working with RAID arrays or hard disks attached to the RocketRAID 2224 until the user has logged on Login Form xl d w System Port User Name f Password x cmos Default Parameters System Address 127 0 0 1 Port 7402 User Name RAID Password hpt Logging On continued Note The password and user name fields are case sensitive The first time the software is used make sure to enter the information listed above After successfully logging on the software will ask you to alter the password as a security precaution Enter a password and press enter 2 Software Interface Overview of commands functions After logging on several new options will become available These commands are displayed towards the top of th
47. tion 2 Click the Setting button on the toolbar or select Setting option from the Operation menu 3 Next enter the necessary information in the E mail Notification Setting window 23 Email notification continued x X Cancel permesso Mail From SMTP Server Port Note The current software does not support SMTP servers that require user authentication To add a Recipient 1 Highlight the Management menu and select the Event Notification function 2 Click the Add button on the toolbar or select Add command from the Operation menu 3 Enter the necessary information in the Add recipient window Add recipient a xl E mail s OK X Cancel Name Notification Option I Information Warming v Error 4 The recipient will be listed in the main window You can use Modify or Delete button on the toolbar to modify or delete the recipient To test E mail notification 1 Highlight the Management menu and select the Event Notification function 2 Select one recipient from the main window 3 Click the Test button on the toolbar or select the Test command from the Operation menu 4 The software will send a test e mail message to the selected recipient 24 Managing Tasks The RAID management Console can be used to setup routine periodical background rebuild or verify tasks that will help mainta
48. tion 2 Highlight the array you want to alter 3 Click the PCE ORLM button on the toolbar or select OCE ORLM command from the Operation menu To perform OCE ORLM on an array continued 4 The OCE ORLM window will appear 21 OCE ORLM continued 5 The interface is very similar to the Array Creation Wizard interface Select the type of array you wish to change the existing array into then set any corresponding parameters cache options capacity if relevant Notes 1 When expanding a JBOD array all the original disks must be included in the target array and these disks must be selected in the same order as the original array If you want to migrate a JBOD array to another RAID level only the first member disk can be included in the target array For example a JBOD comprised of 3 disks 1 2 3 can only be migrated using disk 1 Disks 2 and 3 cannot be used disk 1 would have to be combined with other disks attached to the RocketRAID 2224 4 5 6 7 8 2 You cannot change an array to another type of array with a smaller capacity In some cases a disk may need to be added to the RocketRAID 2224 3 During the OCE ORLM procedure the redundancy level of the array will be the lowest of the source and target arrays e g if you ORLM a RAIDO array to a RAIDI array the array will be non redundant until the procedure is complete 4 The OCE ORLM process can be aborted and continued at later time However you shou
49. to SATAII host adapter Supports up to 8 SATA SATAII hard disk drives 4 internal 4 external PCI X 64 bit 66 100 133MHz PCI bus 64 bit LBA support for drive capacity over 2TB Supports RAID 0 1 5 10 and JBOD Supports Native Command Queuing NCQ Online Capacity Expansion OCE Online RAID Level Migration ORLM SAF TE Enclosure management ready Staggered drive spin up support S M A R T monitoring of hard disk status for reliability Hot Swap and Hot Spare support Audible alarm LED support disk activity and disk failure status Quick and Background initialization for quick RAID configuration BIOS boot support Command Line Interface for RAID management CLD Graphical RAID Management Software RAID Management Console Web based RAID Management Software Automatic RAID rebuild SMTP support for email notification Windows 2000 XP Server 2003 Mac OSX Linux and FreeBSD support Understanding RAID Concepts and Terminology The following concepts and terminology is commonly used when describing the functions of the RocketRAID 2224 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 Initialized The disk has been initialized and can be used for array creation
50. using rawrite exe This utility is included on the SLES Linux CD under dosutils Run rawrite using a command prompt window and follow the directions it provides On a Linux system use the dd command to generate a boot diskette Insert a floppy disk into the floppy drive and type the following command dd if SLESdd img of dev fd0 Step 2 Install SLES Linux 1 Start the install procedure by booting from SLES installation CD 2 After the CD boots select the Installation option and press F6 to load the driver 3 Insert the Driver Diskette when it displays Please insert the Driver Update floppy 4 When the Diver Update Menu is displayed press OK and back for back to installer 5 Next Select back to return to the installer 6 Installation will now proceed normally Refer to SLES Linux documents for additional OS installation procedures Additional Installation Notes The system device mapping order is the same as the order shown in RocketRAID 2224 BIOS Setting Utility If no other SCSI adapters are installed the device marked as BOOT or HDDO will be identified as dev sda HDD1 as dev sdb HDD2 as dev sdc etc When creating mount points boot must be mounted on dev sda 39 3 Installing the RocketRAID 2224 Driver on an Existing System If you are currently running SLES and would like to access drives or arrays attached to the RocketRAID 2224 controller follow the steps outli
51. vilege option Add New User xi Set user privileges LI User management LI Array management C Device management d LI Spare Management ao L1 Notification E mail setting LI Clear events pd LI Configure system parameters i LI Task management x Cancel lt lt Back 3 In the pop up window assign the privileges for the selected user 4 Click OK to apply your selections 31 Linux Driver Support 1 Fedora Core 3 Linux installation Overview This section provides instructions describing how to install and utilize the RocketRAID 2224 Adapter on a Fedora Core 3 Linux system 2 Installing Fedora Core 3 on the RocketRAID 2224 Host Adapter Note If the OS is running kernel that differs from the one supported by the precompiled driver the precompiled drivers cannot be used A driver can be built for this kernel using the OpenSource package for the RocketRAID 2224 controller This package is available from our website and is posted on the BIOS Driver page for the RocketRAID 2224 To install Fedora Linux onto hard disks or RAID arrays attached to RocketRAID 2224 controller follow the steps outlined below Step 1 Prepare the Driver Diskette The driver is contained in a floppy diskette image file On a DOS or Windows system a Fedora driver diskette can be generated using rawrite exe This utility is included on the Fedora Linux CD under dosutils Run rawrite exe using a command prompt wi
52. y disabling ACPI in the motherboard s BIOS settings or type the command set hint acpi 0 disabled 1 under the boot prompt in order to solve the problem 7 Before exiting installation an additional step must be taken to copy the RR2224 driver module to the system On the driver diskette there is a setup script labeled postinstall which will complete this task Before rebooting the system press Alt F4 to enter the command shell and type the following commands f mount o ro dev fd0 mnt sh mnt postinstall umount mnt Then press Alt F1 to return to the setup screen and choose X Exit Install to finish setup 2 Installing RR2224 Driver on an Existing System If you are currently running FreeBSD and would like to access drives or arrays attached to the RR2224 Controller follow the steps outlined below 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 FreeBSD 4 x mount o ro dev fd0 mnt cp mnt hptmv6 xxx ko modules hptmv6 ko umount mnt For FreeBSD 5 x mount o ro dev fd0 mnt cp mnt hptmv6 xxx ko boot kernel hptmv6 ko umount mnt Alternately it is possible extract the files from the img files directly without using a floppy diskette For FreeBSD 4 x f vnconfig vnOc freebsd xxx img mount dev vn0c mnt cp mnt hptmv6
53. ystem To add a user 1 Click the Add button in the User Management window 2 In the pop up window enter the user name enter and confirm the password and then click Next Add New User xl TAREA B Name A Password J A x Cancel Back seo 3 Select the appropriate privileges for the user 4 Click Finish 30 Delete a User This function deletes a user s account on the connected remote system To delete a user 1 Select the target user ID from the User list displayed in the User Management window 2 Click Delete to remove the selected user Click Yes to delete the item Select No to cancel this command Note An active user user currently utilizing the software cannot be deleted from the console Set Password The Administrator uses this function to set a user s password the password allows a user to log on to a remote system and utilize the RAID Management Console To set password for a user 1 Select the target user ID from the user list displayed in the User Management window 2 Click the Set Password option and enter the password for the user 3 Click OK to apply your selections Set Privilege The Administrator uses this function set a user s privileges for the selected remote system To set privileges for a user 1 Select the target user ID from the user list displayed in the User Management window 2 Click the Set Pri
54. ystem to mount dev sdal to location mnt raid after startup dev sdal mnt raid ext2 defaults 00 41 4 Updating the Driver To update the driver simply reinstall the driver following the steps in previous section Install RocketRAID 2224 Driver on an Existing System Note If the driver is loaded in initrd when system is installed onto a disk or array attached to the RocketRAID 2224 you need to run the mkinitrd command to update the initrd file If you are using the lilo boot loader run lilo again lilo 5 Uninstalling the Driver To uninstall the RocketRAID 2224 driver Note The driver cannot be uninstalled while the system is booted from a disk or array attached to the RocketRAID 2224 To uninstall the driver remove the lines added to etc modules conf and etc fstab 42 FreeBSD Driver Support 43 1 Installing FreeBSD on the RocketRAID 2224 Controller If you would like to install FreeBSD onto arrays attached to the RocketRAID 2224 host adapter please follow the steps below Step 1 Prepare the Driver Diskette When installing FreeBSD to a disk or array attached to the RR2224 you must prepare a RR2224 driver diskette before starting the installation procedure First obtain the driver diskette image file from the driver package In a DOS or Windows system create the boot diskette using the rawrite exe utility This utility can be found on the FreeBSD CD under tools Run it under a DOS Prompt wi

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