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1. for FreeBSD 5 5 RELEASE ok load disk0 hptiop 5 5 ko for FreeBSD 5 5 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 hptiop 5 5 amd64 ko for FreeBSD 6 0 RELEASE ok load disk0 hptiop 6 0 ko for FreeBSD 6 0 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 hptiop 6 0 amd64 ko for FreeBSD 6 1 RELEASE ok load disk0 hptiop 6 1 ko for FreeBSD 6 1 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 hptiop 6 1 amd64 ko for FreeBSD 6 2 RELEASE ok load disk0 hptiop 6 2 ko for FreeBSD 6 2 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 hptiop 6 2 amd64 ko for FreeBSD 6 3 RELEASE ok load disk0 hptiop 6 3 ko for FreeBSD 6 3 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 hptiop 6 3 amd64 ko 7 4 MighPoint FreeBSD Driver Support for FreeBSD 7 0 RELEASE ok load disk0 hptiop 6 3 ko for FreeBSD 7 0 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 hptiop 6 3 amd64 ko 5 After the driver has been loaded remove the floppy diskette from the floppy drive 6 Type in boot and continue the installation as normal You can refer to FreeBSD installation guide ok boot Note On some systems with ACPI enabled FreeBSD may not work You can try to disable ACPI in system BIOS or type the command set hint acpi 0 dis abled 1 under boot prompt to solve the problem FreeBSD 7 0 and later version natively support RR3xxx 4xxx but you still need to load the driver manually For FreeBSD 4 x 5 x 6 x version On the driver disk there is a setup script postinstall which will do this work for you Before you reboot the system
2. Click on the blue Schedule link to access the Event menu S M A R T Status You can view S M A R T Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology data about a particular hard disk to help troubleshoot problems that occur You can also setup periodically S M A R T status checking to send notification messages when S M A R T thresholds are exceeded Click on the blue SMART text to view the SMART status of the hard disk 5 10 Kegl Po ni Web RAID Management Interface ELEG GRE sine Manage Event Schedule Storage Health Inspector SHI i 5 Bad Sectors Controller ID Port Device Serial Number RAID oF g Device Status Found amp Repaired 1 3_1 WD WMANU1006170 None 100 None OK SMART 1 3_2 WD WMANU1018718 None 100 None OK SMART 1 3_3 WD WMANU1016543 None 102 None OK SMART 1 3_4 WD WMANU1018709 None 101 None OK MART Device Name Device 1 3 2 Model Number WDC WD5000YS 01MPB0 WD WMANU1018718 Temperature Celsius 39 S M A R T Enabled Disable S M A R T Attributes ID Name Threshold Worst Value Status 1 Raw Read Error Rate 51 200 200 oK 3 Spin Up Time 21 215 249 oK 4 Start Stop Count 0 100 100 OK 5 Reallocated Sector Ct 140 200 200 oK 7 Seek Error Rate 51 200 200 oK 9 Power On Hours 0 98 98 oK a Spin Retry Count 51 100 100 OK b Calibration Retry Count 51 100 100 oK c Power Cycle Count 0 100 100 OK be Unknown Attribute 0 18 61 oK c3 Hardware ECC Recovered 0 1 1 oK c4 Reallocated Even
3. If your BIOS settings do not support such a boot sequence you can first set it to boot from CDROM After you finish installation set SCSI as the first boot device to boot up the system Step 3 Prepare the Driver Diskette If you are installing FreeBSD you must prepare a driver disk for RR3540 before installation First obtain the driver diskette image file freebsd img On a DOS or Windows system you can make the boot diskette using rawrite exe It can be found on the FreeBSD CD under tools Just run it under a command window and follow its prompt MighPoint FreeBSD Driver Support On a FreeBSD system you can use the dd command to make the driver diskette For example Insert a floppy disk into the floppy drive and type the following command if you are installing FreeBSD versions dd if rr3xxx_4xxx bsd img of dev fd0 Step 4 Install FreeBSD 1 Start installing the FreeBSD by booting from installation CD 2 Ifyou 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 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
4. On Welcome to Fedora Linux installation screen a prompted label boot will appear at the bottom of the screen Type in linux dd updates without quota tion mark and then press Enter 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 RR3540 driver automatically When prompted for an update disk source select fd0 The installer will read updates from the driver floppy Continue the installation as usual Do not remove the floppy diskette until installation completed Installation steps for Fedora Core 1 amp Core 3 amp Core 4 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 Type in linux dd without quotation mark and then press Enter 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 4 Now the system will load RR3540 driver automatically 9 ig hate Linux Driver Support 5 Continue the installation as usual Installation steps for Fedora Core 2 1 Start installing Fedora Linux by booting from the insta
5. press Alt F4 to the command shell and type the following commands mount o ro dev fd0 mnt sh mnt postinstall umount mnt For FreeBSD 7 x version press Alt F4 to the command shell and type the following commands echo hptiop load YES gt gt boot defaults loader conf Then press Alt F1 to return to the setup screen and choose X Exit Install to finish setup MighPoint FreeBSD Driver Support 3 Installing RR3xxx 4xxx Driver on an Existing System If you are currently running FreeBSD and would like to access drives or arrays attached to the RR3xxx 4xxx Controller you can perform the following steps Step 1 Copy the Driver Module If you have made freebsd drivers into a diskette you can insert the driver diskette to floppy drive then using the following commands to copy the driver module for FreeBSD 4 x mount o ro dev fd0 mnt cp mnt hptiop xxx ko modules hptiop ko umount mnt for FreeBSD 5 x and 6 x mount o ro dev f d0 mnt cp mnt hptiop xxx ko boot kernel hptiop ko umount mnt You can also extract the files from img files directly without using a floppy diskette For FreeBSD 4 x vnconfig vn0c rr3xxx 4xxx bsd xxx img mount dev vn0c mnt cp mnt hptiop xxx ko modules hptiop ko vnconfig du vn0c myfilesystem mount mnt For FreeBSD 5 x and 6 x mdconfig a t vnode f rr3xxx 4xxx bsd xxx img u 0 mount dev md0 mnt cp mnt hptiop xxx ko boot kernel hp
6. Array For a RAID 1 or RAID1 0 array verify process compares the data of one mirror pair with the other For RAID 3 5 and RAID 6 verify process calculates RAID parity and compares it to the parity data on the array Verification checks each sector on a drive 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 Select menu Manage Array Sie Web RAID Management Interface 2 Highlight the desired RAID array 3 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 To expand migrate an array 1 Select Manage Array from the menu 2 Highlight the desired RAID array 3 Click the Maintenance button 4 Select the target array type 5 Click the OCE ORLM button 6 The OCE ORLM page will appear The interface is similar to the array creation wizard Note A When expanding a JBOD array all the original disks must be included in the target array and these disks must be selected in the
7. BIT e Linux e FreeBSD e MacOS X 10 4 x amp 10 5 x e GPL licensed driver into Linux Kernel 2 6 25 PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS Size 202 0mm x 96 0mm 7 95 Lx 3 77 W WEMI FCC Part 15 Class B and CE Thermal and Atmospheric Characteristics Work Temperature Range 5 C 55 C Relative Humidity Range 5 60 non condensing Storage Temperature 20 C 80 C MTBF 920 585 Hours ihn Introduction Electrical Characteristics PCI e 3 3V 2W Power 12V 14W Understanding RAID Concepts and Terminology The following concepts and terminology is commonly used when describing the functions of the RocketRAID 3540 Host Adapter Disk initialization Initializing a disk writes necessary RAID configuration information to that disk Disks must be initialized before configuring them into RAID arrays The initialization process will destroy all data on the disk 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 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 3540 see legacy disk below Array initialization A redundant array RAIDS RAID1 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
8. Ctl gt lt Alt gt F1 to continue the installation 3 Installing RR3540 driver on an Existing System Note If you use a SCSI adapter to boot your system you must make sure the RR3540 controller BIOS will be loaded after that adapter s BIOS If not try to move it to another PCI slot Otherwise you may be unable to boot up your system 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 tmp uname r hptiop ko HighPoint A A i 6 16 Linux Driver Support Step 2 Test the Driver Module You can test out the module to ensure that it works for your system by changing working directory to the location where hptiop o resides and typing in the command insmod hptiop ko If you are using a distribution with 2 4 kernel driver file should be hptiop o Sometimes insmod will report unresolved symbols when you attempt to load the module This can be caused by two ways 1 You haven t loaded the SCSI module before loading hptiop o Try to load SCSI modules first E g modprobesd_mod insmod hptiop ko 2 You are using a kernel that is build off a different configurati
9. HDS725050KLA4360 KRVNO3ZAG6347D 500 02 GB Available Disks Ss Device_6 HDS7250S0KLA360 KRVP22Z4GOH13C 500 02 GB 5 Device 7 HDS725050KL4360 KRYNO2ZAGOKVIC 500 02 GB 5 Device_8 HDS725050KLA360 KRVP22ZAGOJHOC 500 02 GB Add Spare Adding a Spare Disk To add a spare disk select a disk from the Available Disks list and click the Add Spare button This will add the disk to the Spare Pool list Removing a Spare Disk To remove a spare disk select it from the Spare Pool list and click the Remove Spare button This will remove the disk from the Spare Pool list 5 12 _ HighPoint 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 These events are logged recorded by the Management Software To view logged events Please select Event from the menu The Event Management page will be displayed Settings Event View 1 Type Date Time Description BE Information 2008 01 08 11 33 59 Disk Device 5 Location 5 has been put into spare pool successfully El Information 2008 01 0
10. RocketRAID 3540 Hardware Description Installation RocketRAID 3540 Hardware 1 RocketRAID 3540 Adapter Layout s Ange ES K oaoa o 1 Sag om 20000 72000 20000 00000 Fm 00990 25905 20000 00000 J3 a js ra n 2 Pi PORT a RocketRAID 3540 I PORTI PT a Port1 Port2 Port3 Port4 These represent the RocketRAID 3540 s four Internal Mini SAS ports Each port can support up to 4 hard disks A1 A4 F1 F4 A1 A4 provides LED support Disk Activity while F1 F4 support Disk Faliture A4 A3 A2 A1 fe Ra SO EF OBS BB EE es Ae 11 12 M 13 14 15 16 W F4 F3 F2 F1 1 2 3 4 I 3 7 6 lt a 9 id L gt 3h UA 13 14 i 16 N Pin 1 16 represent each SATA channel port hoe RocketRAID 3540 Hardware Description Installation J18 BBU connector Connector for battery backup unit optional part BEEPI1 Speaker Alarm speaker the speaker emits and audible alarm in the case of disk array failure Ethernet Port Ethernet port for Out of Bound Manegement support Net Time Protocol Cable Internal Mini SAS to SATA The integrated RocketRAID 3540 include 4 Internal Mini SAS to SATA cables each of the RocketRAID 3540 s cable can support SGPIO SideBand Connector As follows SideBand a Pins defined as follows Pin 1 NC Pin 2 SDATAIN Pin 3 GND Pin 4 SDATAOUT Pin 5 SLOAD Pin 6 GND Pin7 SCLOCK Pin 8 NC 2 Installing the RocketRAID 3540 Host Adapter Note Make sure the syst
11. as Disk Initialization Highlight the desired disks and press ENTER to select them Return to the Disk menu highlight the desired function and press ENTER to initiate the task Toggle Spare use this option to specify spare disks Spare disks are used to automatically rebuild failed RAID arrays Unplug use this option to safely remove the selected hard disk This allows you to safely park and power off a disk while the system remains active Rescan use this option when attaching hard disks to the RocketRAID card Turn on Turn off write Cache use these options to enable or disable write cache on the selected disks Disk cache is enabled by default 3 Array Menu Press ALT A to access the Array menu Create an Array To create a RAID array first access the Disk menu Use the J arrows keys to highlight a disk and press the Enter key to confirm the selection Repeat this procedure to add additional disks to the array Once the appropriate disks have been selected return to the Array menu highlight the Create option and press ENTER to access the Create Array page Use the TAB and Shift TAB to select from the corresponding RAID settings Radio button Edit box etc and use the SPACE key to confirm the selections VSS Variable Sector Size If the array s capacity is over 2TB user will be asked to select the Sector Size values from 512B to 4K HighPoint A A 3 3 RocketRAID 3540 BIOS Ut
12. 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 dalsle to location mnt hpt after startup dev da1sle 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 HighPoint 7 8 FreeBSD Driver Support 5 Installing RAID Management Software HighPoint RAID Management Software is used to configure and keep track of your hard disks and RAID arrays attached to RR3540 controller Installation of the manage ment software is optional but recommended Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents about more information 6 Uninstalling You can only uninstall the driver when your system is not booting from devices attached to RR3540 controller Just remove the line hptiop_load YES in boot defaults loader conf and then delete the driver module modules hptiop ko or boot kernel hptiop ko MighPoint Chapter 8 Mac OSX Driver Contents of this Chapter Installing the driver and RAID utility WighPoint Mac OSX Driver 1 Installing the driver and RAID utility Installing the package 1 Double click the package labeled rr3xxx mac v120 113007 dmg to start the installation process xxx refers to the revision of the driver This
13. 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 load hptiop 3 Load it when system is running kldload hptiop If you have configured a RAID 5 using 8 disks it will be registered to system as device dev da0 You can use stand sysinstall to create partitions and disklabels like daOs1e on da0 Then you can create new filesystem using newfs dev da0sle MighPoint FreeBSD Driver Support Now you can mount dev da0sle to somewhere to access it Step 3 Configure System to Automatically Load the Driver Most likely you will not want to type load hptiop each time you boot up the system Therefore you must install the module and tell the system about it To configure system to automatically load the driver type in the following commands echo hptiop load YES gt gt boot defaults loader conf This tells the loader to try loading the RR3540 module together with the kernel Now reboot the system RR3540 module should be automatically loaded each time system start up Note If FreeBSD you installed is 4 x version you should type the following com mand to configure your system mknod dev hptiop c 200 0 Then please check whether node dev hptiop exists in dev directory Step 4 Configure System to Mount Volumes when Startup Now you can
14. not booting from disks attached to RR3540 controller you can update the driver just by reinstalling it following the previous section Install HighPoint A a i 6 18 Linux Driver Support RR3540 driver on an Existing System Overwrite the driver file in the directory lib modules uname r kernel drivers scsi cp f tmp hptiop ko lib modules uname r kernel drivers scsi 2 If you are using a system installed to RR3540 controller you can update the driver file in the directory lib modules uname r updates then update the initrd file cp f tmp hptiop ko lib modules uname r updates mkinitrd initrd uname r img uname r If you are using lilo to boot your system use lilo to reinstall the RAM disk lilo 6 Installing RAID Management Software HighPoint RAID Management Software is used to configure and keep track of your hard disks and RAID arrays attached to RR3540 controller Installation of the manage ment software is optional but recommended Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents about more information 7 Uninstalling You can only uninstall the driver when your system is not booting from devices attached to RR3540 controller Just remove the lines you added to etc fstab and remove the file files you created in the etc init d Appendix A Revision History Version Date 1 2 2007 11 07 1 1 2007 05 11 1 0 2006
15. the driver when your system is not booting from devices attached to RR3540 controller Just remove the lines you added to etc modules conf and etc fstab Appendix A Revision History Version Date Updates 1 1 2007 1 1 07 AddRR4xxx 1 0 2006 04 11 First release for RR3540 adapter 6 13 m irighPoint Linux Driver Support 1 Overview The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use RocketRAID 3540 Controller on Red Hat Enterprise Linux CentOS system Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents about more information 2 Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux CentOS on RR3540 controller If you would like to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux CentOS onto drives attached to RR3540 controller please perform the following operations Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation After you attach your hard disks to RR3540 controller you can use RR3540 BIOS Setting Utility to configure your hard disks as RAID arrays or just use them as single disks Before installation you must remove all the disk drives which are not physically attached to RR3540 controller from your system Note If you have other SCSI adapters installed you must make sure the RR3540 controller BIOS will be loaded firstly If not try to move it to another PCI slot Otherwise you may be unable to boot up your system Step 2 Check System BIOS Settings In your system BIOS SETUP menu change Boot Sequence in s
16. to boot immediately or any other key for command prompt Booting kernel in 9 seconds lt press SPACE key For 5 1 or later version when Welcome to FreeBSD screen appears select 6 3 A prompted label ok will appear at the botton of the screen 4 Insert RR3xxx 4xxx driver diskette into floppy drive now Type in load diskx hptiop x x without quotation mark and then press enter for FreeBSD 4 3 RELEASE ok load kernel ok load disk1 hptiop 4 3 ko for FreeBSD 4 4 RELEASE ok load kernel T2 Kigh Po ni FreeBSD Driver Support ok load diskl hptiop 4 4 ko for FreeBSD 4 5 RELEASE ok load diskl hptiop 4 5 ko for FreeBSD 4 6 2 RELEASE ok load diskl hptiop 4 6 2 ko for FreeBSD 4 7 RELEASE ok load diskl hptiop 4 7 ko for FreeBSD 4 8 RELEASE ok load diskl hptiop 4 8 ko for FreeBSD 4 9 RELEASE ok load diskl hptiop 4 9 ko for FreeBSD 4 10 RELEASE ok load diskl hptiop 4 10 ko for FreeBSD 4 11 RELEASE ok load diskl hptiop 4 11 ko for FreeBSD 5 0 RELEASE ok load disk0 hptiop 5 0 ko for FreeBSD 5 1 RELEASE ok load disk0 hptiop 5 1 ko for FreeBSD 5 2 1 RELEASE ok load disk0 hptiop 5 2 1 ko for FreeBSD 5 3 RELEASE ok load disk0O hptiop 5 3 ko for FreeBSD 5 3 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 hptiop 5 3 amd64 ko MighPoint FreeBSD Driver Support for FreeBSD 5 4 RELEASE ok load disk0 hptiop 5 4 ko for FreeBSD 5 4 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 hptiop 5 4 amd64 ko
17. 02 GB FJ 1 3 4 WDC WD5000YS 01MPB0 WD WMANU1018709 500 02 GB 500 02 GB Rescan HighPoint Web RAID Management 1 6 0 Copyright c 1996 2007 HighPoint Technologies Inc All Rights Reserved 3 Choose the array type you want to create from the drop down list 4 Enter a name for the array this is optional WighPoint 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 RAID1I or RAID10 array can still provide redundancy in case of a disk failure A RAIDS array however is not fault tolerant until initializa tion is finished 6 Specify a cache policy Write back When the write back setting is selected writes 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 writes to the array are always passed directly to the disks Subsequent reads may still be completed from the cache if appropriate None Neither write back nor write through cache is used I O data will be passed to disks directly Select disks from the Available Disks list Enter a capacity for the array or use the default value the maximum capacity for the array 9 Click Create If you have specified an initialization option the initialization process will start automatically Deleting an Array To delete an array 1 Sel
18. 04 11 6 19 Updates Add CentOS Add RHELS First release for RR3540 adapter WighPoint Chapter 7 FreeBSD Driver Support Contents of this Chapter 1 Overview 2 Installing FreeBSD on the RocketRAID 3540 Controller 3 Installing the RocketRAID 3540 Driver on an Existing System 4 Updating the Driver 5 Installing RAID Management Software 6 Uninstalling the Driver WighPoint FreeBSD Driver Support 1 Overview The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use RocketRAID 3540 Controller on a FreeBSD system 2 Installing FreeBSD on RocketRAID 3540 Controller If you would like to install FreeBSD onto drives attached to RocketRAID 3540 controller please perform the following operations Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation After you attach your hard disks to RR3540 controller you can use RR3540 BIOS Setting Utility to configure your hard disks as RAID arrays or just use them as single disks Note If you have other SCSI adapters installed you must make sure the RR3540 controller BIOS will be loaded firstly If not try to move it to another PCI slot Otherwise you may be unable to boot up your system Step 2 Check System BIOS Settings In your system BIOS SETUP menu change Boot Sequence in such a way that the system will first boot from CDROM next from and then from floppy drive and then from SCSI Refer to your BIOS manual to see how to set boot sequence
19. 103 DNS Server Current IP Address Current Subnet Mask Current Gateway Current DNS Server 192 9 200 251 255 255 255 0 192 9 200 103 Ether Net MAC Address 00 19 3c 00 00 00 This page allow user to adjust the onboard LAN values 5 15 WighPoint Web RAID Management Interface Settings gt User Password Confirm Clranga Password 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 gt Email E Enable Event Notification Server Address name or 1P 192 168 0 1 Mail From E mail address admin host com Login Name admin Password ssssssss SMTP Port 25 E mail Name Event Level C tester host com tester Information Warning Error E mail Name gr aa E Event Level Oilnformation warning error Cane 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 Note Your SMTP server may require user authentication enter the appropriate password and username as required To add a Recipient 1 Enter the necessary information for the desired recipient 2 Click the Add button WighPoint 5 16 Web RAID Management Interface To test E
20. 50 6 and JBOD Multiple RAID support Multiple Logical Drive Support BIOS booting support BIOS PnP and BBS BIOS boot specification support Write through and write back cache Online array roaming Online capacity expansion OCE and Online RAID level migration ORLM Quick and Background initialization for instant RAID configuration Automatic drive insertion removal detection and rebuild 64bit LBA support greater than 2TB per volume S M A R T monitoring hard drive status for reliability Staggered Spinup with user selection in BIOS MAID spin down drives in array is idle HighPoint A 1 2 Introduction Array Monitors Alerts and Indicators e SMTP for email notification e Alarm Buzzer alerts for drive failure e SAF TE I2C and SGPIO enclosure management e SNMP for remote management e Ethernet port for OBM Out of Bound Managment e NTP Network Time Protocol e Intelli VRM Intelligent Virtual RAID Managment RAID Management e TerabyteSaver and TerabyteGuard for Data Protection and Reliability e Firmware update in the Operating System e Hot key ctrl h boot up RAID manager via BIOS e API library for customizing AP e Command Line Interface CLI e Web browser base RAID management software e Disk scrubbing to prevent degraded RAID arrays e Bad sector repair and re mapping to reduce dropped drives e ATA pass through mode support Operating System Support e Windows 2000 XP x64 2003 2008 and Vista 32 and 64
21. 8 11 29 27 User RAID logged on system E Information 2008 01 08 11 02 09 User RAID logged on system R Information 2008 01 08 10 13 23 User RAID logged on system E Information 2008 01 08 10 05 09 User RAID logged on system RAID 6 Array RAID_6_0 has been created successfully Disk 1 ST3160812SV SLSENGST 1 Disk 2 ST3160812SV 5LSESH7E 2 Disk le gt 3 ST3160812SV 5LSES6GL 3 Disk 4 5T31608125V 5LSEQ884 4 Disk ES Information 2008 01 07 18 52 40 ADS725050KLA360 KRVNOS AG63A7D 5 Disk 6 HDS725050KLA360 KRVP22 AGOH13C 6 Disk 7 HDS725050KLA360 KRVNO2 AGOKVIC 7 Disk 8 HDS725050KLA360 KRVP22 AGOJHOC 8 Click the Clear button to clear the event log Managing Tasks With the HighPoint RAID Management Software you can configure and schedule back ground rebuild and verify tasks to help maintain the integrity of your drives and data You can select menu Task to enter Task Management page 5 13 Hegh Po ni Web RAID Management Interface ZZ A Manage Event Settings Logout LEGA pacit Techne ne Name Description Verify Verify array RAID 6 0 every day at 11 43 54 from 2008 01 08 O SHI Check all disks every week on Sunday at 11 44 02 New Verify Task RAID_6_0 nme Doo Name Occurs one i time on 2008 4 1 8 at 11 158 11 Occurs every 1 Day s lon Sunday am qes f Schedule Start i dat
22. ERE EE TES ENEE EEEE ER E E a A 1 217 Paint Chapter 1 Introduction Contents of this Chapter About this guide Introducing the RocketRAID 3540 Host Adapter RocketRAID 3540 Features and Specifications Understanding RAID Concepts and Terminology Network Features Web Management BIOS Utilities HighPoint Introduction About This Guide The RocketRAID 3540 SATAII Host Adapter s User s Guide provides information about the functions and capabilities of the host adapter and instructions for installing configuring and maintaining RAID arrays hosted by the adapter The RocketRAID 3540 Host Adapter The HighPoint RocketRAID 3540 is the world s fastest interal RAID controller utilizing Intel IOP341 processor The RocketRAID 3540 is the latest product in storage technology leveraging the storage performance in SATA II and supporting the fastest available throughput while supporting enterprise level features such as Native Command Queuing NCQ staggered drive spin up andSAF TE I2C enclosure management support HighPoint RAID Management HighPoint RAID Management software offers a user friendly interface to create manage and maintain your storage solutions Email notification and remote are some of the advance features that the RAID Management software has to offer Intel 81341 I O Processor and SDRAM The RocketRAID 3540 RAID Controller has an intergrated hardware I O processor for RAID 6 parity calculations With the new
23. I O processor the system CPU is free to perform other important tasks There is also 256MB of DDR SDRAM with ECC protection on the RocketRAID 3540 RAID Controller for improved performance Comprehensive OS Support HighPoint offers the broadest range of support for all major operating systems to ensure OS and hardware server compatibility Drivers are available for all major operating systems including Windows Linux Mac OS X and FreeBSD GPL Li censed Linux drivers into main Linux kernel help customers easily install and config ure the RocketRAID 3540 Onboard Cache and Optional Battery Backup for optimal performance and added security 6 ght Introduction 256MB of DDR Memory with ECC protection is integrated into the RocketRAID 3540 for improved performance and provides additional security in the case of critical system failure when used in conjunction with the optional battery back up unit RocketRAID 3540 Features and Specifications Host Adapter Architecture TerabyteStream for Blazing Performance Intel IOP 81341 800MHz PCI Express x8 256 MB of DDR II memory with ECC protection 4 internal mini SAS connectors with SideBand Signals SGPIO support Support to 16 SATA II 1 Hard Drives Multi adapter support up to 4 adapters Intel RAID 6 P Q for large capacity RAID arrays NVRAM for write journaling Battery Backup Unit BBU Optional RoHS compliant Advance RAID Features Support RAID 0 1 3 5 6 10
24. Maintenance button 4 Enter a new name for the array in the provided field 5 Click the Rename button Note An array running background tasks cannot be renamed Unplug This can be used to safely take an entire array offline while the system remains operational To Unplug an array 1 Select Manage Array from the menu 2 Highlight the desired RAID array 3 Click on the Maintenance button 4 Click the Unplug button 5 The software will notify you when it is safe to remove the array Note Make sure the array is not in use before using this command Active arrays cannot be unplugged a Point Web RAID Management Interface 4 Device Management Select the Manage Device function to access the device management page Manage vent Settings RocketRAID 3540 Controller i Model WOC WDSOO0A4KS 22TMAD WD WCAPW293 1056 Read Ahead Enabled Change Device_9 Revision 12 01C01 Write Cache Enabled Change Serial Number WD WCAPW2931056 Location 2 NCQ Enabled Change Capacity 500 02 G8 Status Normal Max Free 0 00 G8 Ss Model WDC WDSOOODAAKS 22TMAD WD WCAPW2785822 Read Ahead Enabled Chanae Device_10 Revision 12 01C01 Write Cache Enabled Change SerialNumber WD WCAPW2785822 Location 10 NCQ Enabled Change Capacity 500 02 GB Status Normal Max Free 0 00 G8 i Model WDC WDSOOGAAKS 22TMAD WD WCAPW2931241 Read Ahead Enabled Change Device 11 Revision 12 01C01 Write Cache Enabled Change Se
25. RocketRAID 3540 SATAII Host Adapter User s Guide HighPoint Revision 1 0 Date January 2008 HighPoint Technologies Inc Copyright Copyright O 2008 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 Kigh Po ni Table of Contents Table of Content Chapter 1 Introduction PRDOUU TIS COU n ecu chee sak REDE RE SEE REE A E E ERE 1 1 In
26. ad the driver at boot time 1 Edit file etc sysconfig kernel and add hptiop module to the line INITRD_MODULES e g INITRD_MODULES reiserfs hptiop 2 Run depmod to update module configuration depmod 3 Run mkinitrd to update the initrd file mkinitrd 4 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 You can add the following line to tell the system to mount dev sdal to location mnt raid after startup dev sdal1 mnt raid ext2 defaults 0 0 4 Updating the Driver To update the driver simply reinstall the driver following the steps in previous section Install RR3540 Driver on an Existing System If the driver is loaded in initrd e g when system is installed on the controller you need to run mkinitrd to update the initrd file Also if you are using lilo boot loader you need to run lilo again High Point on Linux Driver Support 5 Installing RAID Management Software HighPoint RAID Management Software is used to configure and keep track of your hard disks and RAID arrays attached to RR3540 controller Installation of the manage ment software is optional but recommended Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents about more information 6 Uninstalling You can only uninstall
27. alled Installed Normal Normal v1 2 12 25 Update Firmware Controller 1 Select the blf file to update Firmware This process may take some time Commit Browse 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 Storage Health Inspector SHI Bad Sectors Found amp Repaired None Controller ID Port 1 3_1 1 32 1 3_3 1 34 Device Serial Number WD WMANU1006170 WD WMANU1018718 WD WMANU1016543 WD WMANU1018709 RAID None None None None oF None None None Device Status OK SMART OK SMART OK SMART OK SMART HighPoint Web RAID Management 1 6 0 Copyright c 1996 2007 HighPoint Technologies Inc All Rights Reserved Controller ID Which controller card the disk is attached to Port Port location of the hard disk WighPoint Web RAID Management Interface Device SSN Serial number of the hard disk RAID RAID Non RAID status F Temperature in Fahrenheit of the hard disk Celsius is displayed under the SMART status Bad Sectors Found amp 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 Schedule
28. array using the RocketRAID 3540 controller s BIOS Configuration Utility it will automatically start the initialization process When creating an array using the HighPoint RAID Management Console software you can specify an initialization option Skip initialization foreground and background 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 High Pov lt iap Introduction Online RAID Level Migration This term describes the ability to change one type of array RAID level into a different type of array changing a RAID 1 array into a RAID 10 array for example Data is still accessible during the migration process and a base level of security is still active OCE ORLM and the RocketRAID 3540 The RocketRAID 3540 supports both Online Capacity Expansion OCE and Online RAID Level Migration ORLM Both features are supported by a single function an array can be transformed from one RAID level to another RAID level while simulta neously 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 use
29. d to rebuild other broken arrays Legacy disk Disks attached to the RocketRAID 3540 that contain valid partition tables will be identi fied as legacy disks A legacy disk attached to the RocketRAID 3540 can be accessed by the operating system but cannot be used to create RAID arrays A legacy disk must be initialized before assigning it to an array Network Features The RocketRAID 3540 offers a selection of network oriented RAID Management functions These features are integrated into the card s firmware and can be adminis trated using the BIOS and Web based management utilities SNMP Manager Simple Network Management Protocol Allows the administrator to view the current state of the entire RAID system SNMP Trap The RAID adapter can be configured to report events over the network When an event is generated by the RAID Management utility the SNMP Trap will send SNMP Trap messages to the Trap Receiver NTP Network time protocol The RocketRAID 3540 s firmware automatically synchro nizes it s internal clock to match that of the selected server If a NTP server is not specified the adapter will synchronize itself with the host system s BIOS clock 0 Khor Chapter 2 RocketRAID 3540 Hardware Description Installation Contents of this Chapter RocketRAID 3540 Hardware 1 RocketRAID 3540 Adapter Layout 2 Installing the RocketRAID 3540 Host Adapter 3 Verifying Installation 4 Battery Backup HighPoint
30. dora Linux installation guide Make sure you have finished the next step before system reboot 5 When installation finishes and prompts you to reboot the system press CTRL ALT F2 to the shell and type the following commands chroot mnt sysimage mount dev fd0 mnt sh mnt fedora install step2 sh umount dev fd0 exit Then switch back to console 1 and finish the installation Installation steps for Fedora 7 6 Start installing Fedora Linux by booting from the installation DVD 7 On Welcome to Fedora installation screen press ESC then a prompted label boot will appear at the top of the screen Type in linux dd updates without quotation mark and then press Enter 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 HighPoint A A i 6 2 Linux Driver Support the floppy drive and then select OK The system will load RR3540 driver automatically When prompted Do you wish to load any more driver disks Select No When prompted for an update disk source select fd0 The installer will read updates from the driver floppy 10 Continue the installation as usual Do not remove the floppy diskette until installation completed Installation steps for Fedora Core5 amp Core6 l 2 Start installing Fedora Linux by booting from the installation CD
31. e 2008 4 1 8 O Enddate 2008 1 No end date Scheduling a Task To add a task schedule 1 Select the array that you want to verify or rebuild 2 Enter a name for the task 3 Configure the frequency for the task 4 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 Settings SHI Logout System Network User Email SNMP NTP WMighPoint 4 Web RAID Management Interface Settings gt System System Setting E SAF TE Config File Audible Alarm Staggered Spinup Number of Drives Per Spinup Delay between spinup seconds Spindown Idle Disk minutes Rebuild Priority Auto Rebuild no config file Ag Enabled Enabled 2 Disabled Medium Disabled Upload SAF TE Config File Browse Commit 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 Network Setting files Settings gt Network DHCP Disabled IP Address 192 119 200 251 Subnet Mask 255 1255 1255 Jo IP broadcast 255 1255 255 255 Gateway 192 119 1200
32. e adapter 5 17 High Point Chapter 6 Linux Driver Support Contents of this Chapter Fedora Linux installation Overview SuSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES installation Overview Red Hat Enterprise Linux CentOS Overview WighPoint Linux Driver Support 1 Overview The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use RocketRAID 3540 Controller on Fedora Linux system 2 Installing Fedora Linux on RR3540 controller If you would like to install Fedora Linux onto drives attached to RR3540 controller please perform the following operations Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation After you attach your hard disks to RR3540 controller you can use RR3540 BIOS Setting Utility to configure your hard disks as RAID arrays or just use them as single disks Before installation you must remove all the disk drives which are not physically attached to RR3540 controller from your system Note If you have other SCSI adapters installed you must make sure the RR3540 controller BIOS will be loaded firstly If not try to move it to another PCI slot Other wise you may be unable to boot up your system Step 2 Check System BIOS Settings In your system BIOS SETUP menu change Boot Sequence in such a way that the system will first boot from floppy or CDROM and then from SCSI Refer to your BIOS manual to see how to set boot sequence If your BIOS settings do not support such a boot seq
33. ect Manage Array from the menu 2 Click on the Maintenance button An Array Information window will appear Array Information A RAID 5 0 J Device_1_7 E Device_1_8 JBOD Volume OCE ORLM 5 4 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 However if you have no spare disks configured you can still rebuild by manually adding an Available Disk to the array To add a disk to a broken array 1 Select menu Manage Array 2 Highlight the desired RAID array 3 Click the Maintenance button 4 Click the Add Disk button 5 If the disk is successfully added to the array rebuild process will start automatically A progress bar will be displayed Note If the system utilizes hot swap capable enclosures you can add new physical disks to the RocketRAID card in order to rebuild or modify an existing array using the Rescan feature Reminder When adding disks manually make sure to initialize the disk see Preparing Hard Disks Only initialized disks can be used to rebuild RAID arrays Verifying an
34. em is powered off before installing the RocketRAID 3540 host adapter High obit D RocketRAID 3540 Hardware Description Installation 1 Open the system chassis and locate an unused PCI E x8 2 Remove the PCI slot cover 3 Gently insert the RocketRAID 3540 into the PCI E slot and secure the bracket to the system chassis 4 After installing the adapter attach the Mini SAS connectors to the RocketRAID 3540 s Mini SAS port and to chassis backplane Each Mini SAS cable supports up to 4 hard disk drives Consult the chassis s manual for proper installation procedures 5 Close and secure the system chassis alate ete el PCI Express slot 3 Verifying Installation Once the RocketRAID 3540 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 3540 BIOS Utility will be displayed during bootup 2 Press Ctrl H to access the RocketRAID 3540 BIOS Utility The BIOS Utility will display information about hard disks attached to the adapter hve RocketRAID 3540 Hardware Description Installation Make sure all attached disks are detected by this utility If any of the hard disks are not detected power down the system and check the cable connections to both the card and enclosure 4 Battery Backup A battery backup optio
35. er chmod 755 etc init d hptdriver In sf etc init d hptdriver etc re d rc3 d S01hptdriver In sf etc init d hptdriver etc re d rce4 d SO1hptdriver In sf etc init d hptdriver etc re d rc5 d SO1hptdriver 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 sdal to location mnt raid after startup dev sdal mnt raid ext3 defaults 0 0 4 Monitoring the Driver Once the driver is running you can monitor it through the Linux proc file system support There is a special file under proc scsi hptiop Through this file you can view driver status and send control commands to the driver Note The file name is the SCSI host number allocated by OS If you have no other SCSI cards installed it will be 0 In the following sections we will use x to represent this number Checking Devices Status Using the following command to show driver status cat proc scsi hptiop x This command will show the driver version number physical device list and logical device list 5 Updating the Driver First obtain the new driver module file hptiop o from the driver image Refer to the previous section Obtain the Driver Module In the following steps we assume you have copied it to tmp hptiop ko and your initrd file is boot initrd uname r img 1 If you are
36. es without quotation mark then press Enter Do not remove the floppy diskette until installation completed 3 When prompted Do you have a driver disk Select Yes 4 When prompted Insert your driver disk and press OK to continue insert the driver diskette in the floppy drive and then select OK 5 The system will load RR3540 driver automatically Continue the installation as normal 6 When asked where do you want to install the boot loader in the Boot Loader Configuration dialog you must select Master Boot Record MBR to make your system be able to boot RR3540 controller 7 Continue the installation as normal You can refer to Red Hat Enterprise Linux CentOS installation guide Note I The system device mapping order is the same as the order shown in RR3540 BIOS Setting Utility 6 15 m VPO Linux Driver Support Note 1 The system device mapping order is the same as the order shown in RR3540 BIOS Setting Utility 2 On some system the LILO boot loader may be installed incorrectly unless you specify BIOS parameters in etc lilo conf During installation when prompted Would you like to create a boot disk for your system switch to console 2 by pressing lt Ctl gt lt Alt gt F2 Then use the following command chroot mnt sysimage vi etc lilo conf Add two lines under the line boot dev sda disk dev sda bios 0x80 sbin lilo Press lt
37. he Disk menu use the T J arrows keys to select a disk After highlighting the desired disk select Disk gt Information to view hardware data about this disk System Disk Array Controller Window Help Disk Information Channel ber evice Type SATA disk KLSA8G odel Number WD 75QG AYSY WD RE2 Y WD RE2 erial Number KLSA8G irmware Revision Y WD RE2 apacity 1566660006 sectors KLSA8 rite cache On Y WD RE2 CQ KLSA88 Progress Disk initialization Disks must be initialized prior to creating a RAID array To initialize a disk access the Disk menu and highlight a disk using the T J arrows keys Press ENTER to add the disk to the initialization list Repeat this procedure for each disk that requires initialization After selecting the required disks select Disk gt Initialize option from the Disk menu Kigh Point RocketRAID 3540 BIOS Utility Note If the selected disk has already been initialized the BIOS utility will display a warning message but will continue to initialize the remaining disks Warning Initializing a disk may result in data loss do not initialize disks that contain critical data Non initialized disks can still be utilized as stand alone drives and will be recognized as Legacy devices Other Disk related Functions Disk gt Toggle Spare Disk gt Unplug Disk gt Rescan Disk gt Turn on write cache and Disk gt Turn off write cache work in the same manner
38. he 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 it ed tar xfz media floppy linux suse i386 sles9 install update tar gz The driver modules will be extracted to directory lib modules kernel ver kernel drivers scsi Step 3 Test the Driver Module You can test out the module to ensure that it works for your system by typing in the command insmod hptiop ko Sometimes insmod will report unresolved symbols when you attempt to load the module This can be caused by two ways 1 The SCSI module is not loaded in kernel Try to load SCSI modules first E g modprobe sd_mod insmod hptiop ko Example You have configured a RAID 1 0 array using 4 disks It will be registered to 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 sdal to somewhere to access it lt n Linux Driver Support Step 4 Configure System to Automatically Load the Driver Most likely you will not want to type in insmod hptiop each time you boot up the system You can add the driver to the initial RAM disk image to lo
39. ility Create rray y T Init Method R lt gt Quick init lt gt Foreground ector size 2 3 4 5 6 ie 8 Progress Create E Cancel a F19 Menu TAB Switch window Enter Select 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 View an Array To view information about a specific Raid array use the TAB key to switch to the Array Interface view and use the 4 arrows keys to select the array After selecting the array access the Array menu and select the Information option then press ENTER Other RAID array related functions Array gt Delete Array gt Unplug Array gt Verify Array gt Start task Array gt Stop task and Array gt Set Boot work in the same manner as the View an Array function Highlight the desired array using the Array Interface view and press ENTER Return to the Array menu select the desired function and press ENTER to initiate the task Delete use this option to delete the selected array Warning all data on the selected array will be lost Unplug use this option to safely remove each disk member of the selected array This allows you to safely park and powe
40. in the command cat proc scsi hptiop x where x is the filename you found under proc scsi hptiop You should see the driver banner and a list of attached drives You can now access the drives as a SCSI device the first device is dev sda then dev sdb etc Example You have configured a RAID 0 array using 2 disks It will be registered to 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 hptiop o each time you boot up the system Therefore you must install the module and tell the system about it To install the module type in the following commands first change directory to where the proper hptiop ko locates cp hptiop ko lib modules uname r kernel drivers scsi depmod Then you should inform the system load the module when system boots up with the following command echo modprobe hptiop gt etc init d hptdriver chmod 755 etc init d hptdriver In sf etc init d hptdriver etc re d rc3 d SO1hptdriver In sf etc init d hptdriver etc rc d rc4 d SO1hptdriver In sf etc init d hptdriver etc re d rc5 d SO1hptdriver Step 4 Configure System to Mount Volumes when Startup Now you can inform the system to aut
41. indows needs your permission to continue select continue 3 Select I don t have disc show me other options and then select Browse my computer for driver software 4 Specify the location of the driver and click Next HighPoint EET RocketRAID 3540 Driver and Software Installation 5 When asked Would you like to install this driver software select Install 6 Reboot the system when prompted The RocketRAID 3540 will be available for use after Vista reboots Installation Verification After the driver has been installed and the system has been restarted 1 Click the Start button then right click My Computer icon Select the Properties item from the popup menu 2 In the popup window select Hardware tab and then click Device Manager button 3 Double click the SCSI and RAID controllers entry If the RocketRAID device entry is not displayed or there are or marks displayed near the RocketRAID entry the driver has not been installed properly Delete the entries and reinstall the driver lat Chapter 5 RocketRAID 3540 Web RAID Management Interface Contents of this Chapter 1 Web RAID Management Interface 2 Preparing Hard disks 3 Array Management 4 Device Management 5 Configuring Spare Disks 6 Managing Events and Tasks 7 Settings HighPoint Web RAID Management Interface 1 Web RAID Management Interface There are two methods t
42. iskettes 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 HighPoint Products Software CD ReadMe First Install RAID Management Software Browse the CD Exit 4 Click on the Please Select a Product drop down button and select RocketRAID 3540 from the list Create driver diskette Please select a product RocketRAID 3540 Please select the diskette you want to create Windows driver cancel Kigh Point RocketRAID 3540 Driver and Software Installation 5 Click on the Please Select the Diskette you want to create drop down button and select the appropriate OS from the list HighPoint Products Soft Create driver diskette Please select a product RacketRAID 3540 Please select the diskette you want to create Windows driver Win driver Fedora Core 3 i386 driver Fedora Core 3 x86_64 driver Fedora Core 4 i386 driver Fedora Core 4 x86 64 driver Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 0 driver famd64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 0 driver athlon Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 0 driver i586 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 0 driver i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 0 driver x86 Red Hat Enter
43. llation 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 Insert the driver diskette into floppy drive and type the following commands mkdir dd mount dev fd0 dd sh dd fedora install step1 sh umount dev fd0 Then press ALT F1 to switch back to installation screen and select No to continue 4 Continue the installation as usual You can refer to Fedora Linux installation guide Make sure you have finished the next step before system reboot 5 When installation finishes and prompts you to reboot the system press CRL ALT EF2 to the shell and type the following commands chroot mnt sysimage mount dev fd0 mnt sh mnt fedora install step2 sh umount dev fd0 exit Then switch back to console 1 and finish the installation 3 Installing RR3540 driver on an Existing System Note Ifyou use a SCSI adapter to boot your system you must make sure the RR3540 controller BIOS will be loaded after that adapter s BIOS If not try to move it to another PCI slot Otherwise you may be unable to boot up your system HighPoint 6 4 Linux Driver Support Remove hptiop ko module on Fedora 6 amp 7 amp 8 If you installed RR3540 controller you must remove built in mod
44. 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 gt SNMP You can set three SNMP Trap IP address and trap type this setting will be saved in the flash While the corresponding type of events generated the adapter will send SNMP Trap Messages to the designated Trap Receiver through its Ethernet interface SNMP Configurations SNMP Trap IP Address 1 i H Port 162 SNMP Trap IP Address 2 j A Port 162 SNMP Trap IP Address 3 i i Port 162 Trap Type Dinformation C warming O Error Submit If you do not use the adapter s Ethernet interface you can setup the SNMP configuration in the In Band Management Service configuration page In this case the in band management service will send SNMP Trap messages through the network interface of the host computer Settings gt NTP NTP Server Configurations NTP Server IP Address 1 E aeu a eL NTP Server IP Address 2 Time Zone GMT 12 00 International Date Line West v Current Time 2008 01 08 11 53 21 Submit You can check the current firmware time and setup two NTP time server addresses and select the time zone The adapter will keep its clock synchronized with time sever Note To use the NTP feature you must setup the Ethernet port of th
45. n 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 3540 Controller for the corresponding operating system and press ENTER to continue Windows Vista Driver Installation Installing the driver during a fresh Windows Vista installation Boot from Windows Vista DVD 2 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 3 Select the RocketRAID 3540 controller driver and click Next The driver is now installed you can now continue on with the installation procedure Installing the driver for an existing Windows Vista system 1 Install the RocketRAID 3540 host adapter into the PC then boot up Windows Vista 2 Windows should automatically detect the card and display the Found New Hardware wizard pop up window Select Locate and install driver software When Windows asks W
46. n 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 When Diver Update Menu pop up press OK and back for back to installer 5 Continue the installation as normal You can refer to SLES Linux documents about OS installation Additional Installation Notes The system device mapping order is the same as the order shown in RR3540 BIOS Setting Utility If you have no other SCSI adapters installed the device marked as BOOT or HDDO will be dev sda HDD 1 will be dev sdb HDD2 will be dev sdc etc When creating mount points you must mount boot on dev sda 3 Installing RR3540 Driver on an Existing System If you are currently running Linux and would like to access drives or arrays attached to the Rocket RAID 3540 controller you can perform the following steps Note If you use a SCSI adapter to boot your system you must make sure the RR3540 controller BIOS will be loaded after that adapter s BIOS If not try to move it to another PCI slot Otherwise you may be unable to boot up your system Step 1 Update Grub If you are running SLES SMP System you must update boot grub menu Ist first HighPoint A aA 6 10 Linux Driver Support E g default 0 timeout 8 title Linux kernel hd0 1 vmlinux root dev hdal acpi off initrd hdO 1 initrd Then reboot t
47. n will be available as an optional add on component The battery provides additional data security in case of a critical system failure Data normally lost during a major system fault such as a power outage or CPU failure which was in transit at the time of the failure stored in the card s onboard cache will remain viable for up to 72 hours The battery unit can be attached to the card using the BBU CONN Attach the BBU into J18 of RocketRAID 3540 using the cable included with the BBU unit High obit 1 Chapter 3 RocketRAID 3540 BIOS Utility Contents of this Chapter RocketRAID 3540 BIOS Utility 1 BIOS Command Overview 2 Disk Menu 3 Array Menu 4 Controller Menu HighPoint RocketRAID 3540 BIOS Utility RocketRAID 3540 BIOS Utility The RocketRAID 3540 s BIOS Utility can be accessed using the Ctrl H command This command should be displayed automatically when the RocketRAID 3540 s BIOS screen appears during the system s boot up procedure 1 BIOS Command Overview The RocketRAID 3540 BIOS Utility provides a wide selection of RAID related commands These commands are displayed towards the top of the utility s interface Channel Status 2 Normal y HDS724 4 KLSA8 Normal i 2 P WD7SGGAYSY WD RE2 Normal n HDS 72404 KLSA8A Normal y 4 gt YD75 AYSY WD RE2 Normal y a s HDS 72404 KLSA8A Normal y gt k WD7S BAYSY WD RE2 Normal i i HDS724 4 KLSA8 Progre
48. nce 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 been tested and found to comply with the following European directives e European Standard EN55022 1998 Class B European Standard EN55024 1998
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50. nfigure your hard disks as RAID arrays or just use them as single disks Before installation you must remove all the disk drives which are not physically attached to RR3540 controller from your system Note If you have other SCSI adapters installed you must make sure the RR3540 controller BIOS will be loaded firstly If not try to move it to another PCI slot Otherwise you may be unable to boot up your system Step 2 Check System BIOS Settings In your system BIOS SETUP menu change Boot Sequence in such a way that the system will first boot from floppy or CDROM and then from SCSI Refer to your BIOS manual to see how to set boot sequence If your BIOS settings do not support such a boot sequence you can first set it to boot from floppy or CDROM After you finish installation set SCSI as the first boot device to boot up the system Step 3 Prepare the Driver Diskette The driver diskette is provided as an image file slesdd img On a DOS or Windows system you can make the driver diskette using rawrite exe It lt lt 7 Linux Driver Support can be found on the SLES Linux CD under dosutils Just run it under a command window and follow its prompt On a Linux system you can use the dd command to make the driver diskette Insert a floppy disk into the floppy drive and type the command dd if rr3xxx_4xxx sles img of dev fd0 Step 4 Install SLES Linux 1 Start installing by booting from SLES installatio
51. o access the RocketRAID 3540 s web based RAID management interface Use HighPoint In band Management Service or use the adapter s Ethernet port out of band management The Web RAID Management interface is a firmware based utility If you are using the adapter s Ethernet port you need no additional software and configuration on the host system You can access the web interface once you have setup the adapter s network configuration You can also access the web interface through the in band management software The in band management software acts as a proxy between the web browser and the firmware The in band management software can also provide remote RAID management through the host system s network interface Installing the HighPoint In band Management software For Windows Run setup exe from the in band management software folder on the software CD For Linux The in band management software is distributed as a RPM package You can install it by rpm i command For FreeBSD You can install the in band management software by pkg_add command For more information about in band management software please check the README file in the in band management software package Starting the Management Interface Note To use the web based RAID management interface a web browser with XML support is required e g Internet Explorer 6 0 Mozilla FireFox or Safari for OSX systems To run the management interface start the web br
52. omatically mount the array by modifying the file etc fstab E g you can add the following line to tell the system to mount dev sdal to location mnt raid after startup dev sdal1 mnt raid ext3 defaults 0 0 HighPoint A a i oop Linux Driver Support 4 Monitoring the Driver Once the driver is running you can monitor it through the Linux proc file system support There is a special file under proc scsi hptiop Note The file name is the SCSI host number allocated by OS If you have no other SCSI cards installed it will be 0 In the following sections we will use x to represent this number Checking Devices Status Using the following command to show driver status cat proc scsi hptiop 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 RR3540 controller you can update the driver as below cp hptiop ko Alib modules uname r updates mkinitrd uname r For FC2 the commands should be cp hptiop ko Alib modules uname r kernel drivers scsi mkinitrd preload scsi mod preload sd mod with hptiop boot initrd uname r img uname r It s recommended to backup the original initrd file before you update the driver 2 If the original driver is installed in the lib modules uname r kernel driver
53. on with the driver In this case the precompiled drivers cannot be used You can build a driver for your kernel using OpenBuild package for RocketRAID 3540 controller To ensure the module has been loaded successfully you can check the driver status by typing in the command cat proc scsi hptiop x where x is the filename you found under proc scsi hptiop You should see the driver banner and a list of attached drives You can now access the drives as a SCSI device the first device is dev sda then dev sdb etc Example You have configured a RAID 0 array using 2 disks It will be registered to 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 sdal to somewhere to access it Step 3 Configure System to Automatically Load the Driver Most likely you will not want to type in insmod hptiop ko each time you boot up the system Therefore you must install the module and tell the system about it To install the module type in the following commands first change directory to where the proper hptiop ko locates cp rf hptiop ko Aib modules uname r kernel drivers scsi depmod Eg hoe Linux Driver Support Then you should inform the system load the module when system boots up with the following command echo modprobe hptiop gt etc init d hptdriv
54. oppy drive At the Hardware Wizard screen select the floppy drive as the source then click the Next button Select the appropriate operating system 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 When Windows asks to reboot the system choose No Windows will then display a second Found New Hardware Wizard window repeat steps through 4 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 Select the Properties item from the popup menu In the popup window select Hardware tab and then click Device Manager button Double click the SCSI and RAID controllers entry If the RocketRAID 3540 device entry is not displayed or there are or RocketRAID 3540 entry the driver has not been installed properly Delete the marks displayed near the entries and reinstall the driver D pnt RocketRAID 3540 Driver and Software Installation Installing the RocketRAID 3540 driver during a fresh Windows 2000 XP 2003 x64 installation 1 After booting from the Windows 2000 XP 2003 CD ROM when the Windows Setup blue screen appears look towards the bottom of the scree
55. owser and enter the access URL If you are using the adapter s Ethernet port please enter http adapter ip address If you are using in band management software please enter http host address 7402 Where host address is the host name or IP address of the host system Specifically if you are running the browser on the host system you can use http localhost 7402 Sie 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 Controllers Email Setting SNMP Setting E POPR Technologies Ine Controller HTTPPort CLIPort Access URL Controller 1 Enter Network Password ye This secure Web Site at 127 0 0 1 requires you to log on Please type the User Name and Password that you use for HighPoint Web RAID Management HighPoint Web RAID Managem Uia X Copyright c 1996 2007 HighH Password IT Save this password in your password list 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 2 Preparing Hard disks Disks must be initialized before they can be configured into RAID arrays Normally disks only have to be initiali
56. port Department Troubleshooting Checklist Before contacting our Customer Support department Make sure the latest BIOS driver and RAID Software have been installed for the RocketRAID 3540 Updates are available from our website 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 408 942 5800 request for support 9 00AM 6 00PM Pacific Standard Time Additional information about HighPoint products is available from our web site http www highpoint tech com 6 got 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 part 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 interfer ence to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interfer ence to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equip ment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interfere
57. prise 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 SuSE Linux 10 0 driver 6 Click on the OK button to create the driver diskette To install the RAID software 1 Click on Install RAID Management Software ReadMe First Create Driver Diskette Browse the CD Exit 2 Select the desired software from the drop down menu and click on the OK button HighPoint RocketRAID 3540 Driver and Software Installation Windows Driver Installation Before installing the RocketRAID 3540 device driver make sure the RocketRAID 3540 host adapter and all required hard disks have been installed into the system s chassis refer to the Hardware Installation section pages 2 2 2 3 Installing the RocketRAID 3540 driver for an existing Windows XP 2003 x64 system After the operating system has booted Windows will automatically detect the RocketRAID 3540 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 fl
58. r off each hard disk while the system remains active Verify select this option to verify the integrity of the selected array Routine RAID verification is essential to avoid data loss in the case of disk failure Kigh Point RocketRAID 3540 BIOS Utility Start Task select this option to schedule specific RAID maintenance tasks such as RAID Verification Stop Task use this option to terminate scheduled tasks Set boot use this option to set an array to act as a boot volume Note This setting is dependent on the motherboard s BIOS configuration An array designated as a boot volume cannot be used to boot the system unless the card has been instructed to act as the system s boot device Consult the motherboard s BIOS CMOS setup menu and corresponding manual for more information 4 Controller Menu Press ALT C to access the Controller menu View Controller information To view information about the controller access the Controller menu select view and press ENTER View Events To view the RocketRAID event log access the Controller menu select Evnetlog and press ENTER Use Shift TAB to select from the different items check boxes editable fields and use the SPACE key to confirm the selection There are three selectable filter options which can be used specify the type of information presented by the selected log A maximum of 10 logs are listed in the utility at a time
59. rial Number WD WCAPW2931241 Location 11 NCQ Enabled Change Capacity 500 02 GB Status Normal Max Free 0 00 GB Model WDC WD5000AAKS 22TMA0 WD WCAPW2920313 Read Ahead Enabled Change Device_12 Revision 12 01C01 Write Cache Enabled Change Serial Number WOD WCAPW2920313 Location 12 NCQ Enabled Change 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 Extended Information amp Update Firmware The device management page also show the extended information of the RAID controller such as onboard memory and battery information 5 8 WMighPoint Web RAID Management Interface G HiohPoint Web RAID Management Device Managem A A e l HDS725050KLA360 KRVP22ZAGOJHOC i Model Device_8 Revision K2A0A10C Location 8 Capacity 500 02 GB Max Free 340 10 GB Serial Number KRVP22ZAGOJHOC Write Cache Status NCQ Read Ahead Enabled Change Normal Enabled Change Enabled Change Extended Information Controller 1 IOP34x 69056818 IOP Model SDRAM Size Battery Status BatteryMB Status Battery Voltage Battery Temperature Firmware Version 256M Inst
60. s scsi directory and load it by the script file e g etc init d hptdriver during the init process please replace it with the new driver hptiop o or hptiop ko 9 7 Linux Driver Support 6 Installing RAID Management Software HighPoint RAID Management Software is used to configure and keep track of your hard disks and RAID arrays attached to RR3540 controller Installation of the manage ment software is optional but recommended Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents about more information 7 Uninstalling You can only uninstall the driver when your system is not booting from devices attached to RR3540 controller Just remove the lines you added to etc fstab and remove the file files you created in the etc init d Appendix A Revision History Version Date Updates 1 2 2007 11 07 Add Fedora Core 7 1 1 2007 05 11 Add Fedora Core 6 1 0 2006 04 11 First release for RR3540 adapter HighPoint A a oo Linux Driver Support 1 Overview The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use Rocket RAID 3540 Controller on SLES Linux system 2 Installing SLES Linux on RR3540 Controller If you would like to install SLES Linux onto drives attached to RR3540 controller please perform the following operations Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation After you attach your hard disks to RR3540 controller you can use RR3540 BIOS Setting Utility to co
61. 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 I would have to be combined with other disks attached to the RocketRAID card B 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 card 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 C The OCE ORLM process can be aborted and continued at later time However you should always stop the transform progress from the RAID Management software Tpit OO 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 Select Manage Array from the menu 2 Highlight the desired RAID array 3 Click on the
62. ss General Navigation Press ALT the first letter of the each menu item highlighted in red to access the corresponding menu Alt D will open the Disk menu bar You can also press F10 to quickly browse through the various menu selections Use the arrow keys to select the desired item and press ENTER to open the menu Use the T I arrows keys to select the desired command from each menu and press the ENTER key to confirm the selected command There are two windows in the utility s interface Disk interface and Array interface Use the TAB key to switch between each interface Supervisor User mode The default BIOS operation mode is User mode user can only view some information of the controller through BIOS If user wants to modify the setting of the RAID controller it must be changed to Supervisor mode 3 1 Kigh Po ni RocketRAID 3540 BIOS Utility Press ALT S to open the System menu in the figure 1 then select Supervisor mode and press ENTER This will open the user authentication interface Enter the appropriate password and then press ENTER The initial password is hpt WCache Model Number HDS7240 4 KLSA8 Change password UDYSB RYSY WD RE2 HDS 724 4 KLSA8A Exit Alt 8 WD SGGAYSY WD RE2 HDS 72 464G6KLSA8G WD7SGGAYSY WD RE2 Normal New HDS 724646KLSA8G 2 Disk Menu Press ALT D to access the Disk menu View a disk From t
63. t Count 0 200 200 oK c5 Current Pending Sector 0 200 200 oK c6 Offline Uncorrectable 0 200 200 OK c7 UDMA CRC Error Count 0 200 200 oK c8 Multi Zone Error Rate 51 199 200 oK HighPoint Web RAID Management 1 6 0 Copyright c 1996 2007 HighPoint Technologies Inc All Rights Reserved 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 Sail Hegh Po ni Web RAID Management Interface To rescan the devices 1 Select menu Manage Device 2 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 The Spare Pool Management page will be displayed Event Settings Logout Spare Pool B Device 5
64. tiop ko umount mnt mdconfig d u md0 FreeBSD 7 x version natively supports RR3xxx 4xxx and its built in driver module hptiop ko is located at boot kernel hptiop 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 RR3540 banner and a display screen of the attached drives You can now access the drives as a SCSI device Kigh Po ni 7 6 FreeBSD Driver Support if you have no other SCSI device the first device is dev da0 then dev dal etc Example 1 Load it at boot loader for 5 0 or earlier version 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 e on Welcome to FreeBSD screen Hit Enter to boot immediately or any other key for command prompt ooting kernel in 9 secondsj B lt press SPACE key Type for a list of commands help for more de tailed help ok load hptiop modules hptiop
65. troducing the RocketRAID 3540 Host Adapter 0 0 0 eee cee eeseeeeceseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 1 1 RocketRAID 3540 Features and Specifications 0 eee eee ceeceseeeeceseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 1 2 Understanding RAID Concepts and Terminology 00 cece ceseeseceeceseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 14 Network Features isinira eE E EE a E Ea 1 5 Chapter 2 Hardware Description Installation 1 RocketRAID 3540 Adapter Layout esesseeeeseseessseeseisresrssrsrssrersresrerrererreresresene 2 1 2 Installing the RocketRAID 3540 Host Adapter cece eeseeeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 2 2 3 Verifying Installation secs csaceveccissvassecsasieneedinevetneverdeanGreresssidastenybtteunw andes EEN EGE SE 2 3 A Battery B rse teens E EEEE A E arrea EEn SE anes EAE 24 Chapter 3 BIOS Utility 1 BIOS Command Overview iranere NR Nee Earle 3 1 EDI SEN HUE a eE A AE E EE EE E RA 3 2 3 lt Array MGI suenen naea aa aa E E EEK EE E SiE 3 3 Aa Controler MENU srs ner aant ae ER EE Ee AEA ANE EEEREN SEAE EA 3 5 Chapter 4 Driver and Software Installation Microsoft Windows Driver and Software CD nnie E ac eos 41 Windows Driver Installation ce eeeceeceesseceneeceseecnseeeneeceeceeneceeeeeaecesaeceaeecnaeeeatees 43 HighPoiat D Table of Contents Chapter 5 Web RAID Management Interface 1 Web RAID Management Interface eee eeeeeseseeeceeceseeeeeceecneeaeeseceesaeeeetaeaees 5 1 2 Preparing Harddisks sorten ERE reires EEE 5 2 3 Array Management vreden rener
66. uch a way that the system will first boot from floppy or CDROM and then from SCSI Refer to your BIOS manual to see how to set boot sequence If your BIOS settings do not support such a boot sequence you can first set it to boot from floppy or CDROM After you finish installation set SCSI as the first boot device to boot up the system Step 3 Prepare the Driver Diskette Driver is provided in floppy diskette image file format On a DOS or Windows system you can make the Red Hat driver diskette using rawrite exe It can be found on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux CentOS CD under HighPoint A a i lt 6 14 Linux Driver Support dosutils Just run it under a command window and follow its prompt On a Linux system you can use the dd command to make the boot diskette Insert a floppy disk into the floppy drive and type the command amd64 driver for example dd if rr3xxx_4xxx rhel_centos img of dev fd0 Step 4 Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux CentOS 1 Start installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux CentOS by booting from the installation CD 2 On Welcome to Red Hat Enterprise Linux CentOS installation screen a prompted label boot will appear at the bottom of the screen For RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 type in expert text without quotation mark For RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 and its update version type in linux dd without quotation mark For RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 type in linux dd updat
67. uence you can first set it to boot from floppy or CDROM After you finish installation set SCSI as the first boot device to boot up the system Step 3 Prepare the Driver Diskette Driver is contained in a floppy diskette image file you can get it from our web site for free On a DOS or Windows system you can make the Fedora driver diskette using ewrite exe It can be found on the Fedora Linux CD under dosutils Just run it under a command window and follow its prompt On a Linux system you can use the dd 6 hott Linux Driver Support command to make the boot diskette Insert a floppy disk into the floppy drive and type the command Example dd if rr3xxx_4xxx fedora img of dev fd0 Step 4 Install Fedora Linux Installation steps for Fedora 8 1 Start installing Fedora Linux by booting from the installation DVD 2 On Welcome to Fedora installation screen press ESC then a prompted label boot will appear at the top of the screen Type in linux dd without quotation mark and then press Enter 3 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 RR3540 driver automatically When prompted Do you wish to load any more driver disks Select No 4 Continue the installation as usual You can refer to Fe
68. ule from system rm f lib modules uname r kernel drivers scsi hptiop ko rmmod hptiop ko Step 1 Obtain the Driver Module You can extract the module file from the file modules cgz on the driver disk Using the following commands mount dev fd0 cd tmp gzip dc mnt floppy modules cgz cpio idumv Driver modules for all supported kernel versions will be extracted You can find the driver module for your running kernel under the directory that matches your kernel version Step 2 Test the Driver Module You can test out the module to ensure that it works for your system by changing working directory to the location where hptiop o resides and typing in the command insmod hptiop o If you are using a distribution with 2 6 kernel it should be insmod hptiop ko Sometimes insmod will report unresolved symbols when you attempt to load the module This can be caused by two ways 1 You haven t loaded the SCSI module before loading hptiop o Try to load SCSI modules first E g modprobe scsi_mod modprobe sd_mod insmod hptiop o 2 You are using a kernel that is build off a different configuration with the driver In this case the precompiled drivers cannot be used You can build a driver for your ote Linux Driver Support kernel using Open Source package for RocketRAID 3540 controller To ensure the module has been loaded successfully you can check the driver status by typing
69. use the Prev and Next button to turn the pages Use the Clear button to delete all logs Controller Setting To access the Controller Settings page access the Controller menu select Settings and press ENTER Use Shift TAB to select between different menu items Radio buttons check boxes editable fields etc and use the SPACE key to confirm the selection HighPoint A 3 5 RocketRAID 3540 BIOS Utility Network Setting Use this menu to configure the RocketRAID card s network settings Access the Controller menu select Network and press ENTER You can select Use automatic config to request the network information from the system or configure the settings manually Channel Status Normal Normal Normal Normal Normal Normal Normal Name JBOD_66 ea FreeSpace Mode rk Settings _ Use automatic config IP ad ERE d 2f 34 d3 e5 65 89 1 Number or 2H 2GH1 212A or 6L 4 J2 or 2H 2GH1 DTLA 367615 212A or 6L 4 J2 Progress Kigh Po ni Chapter 4 RocketRAID 3540 Driver and Software Installation Microsoft Windows 2000 XP 2003 Server Vista Contents of this Chapter Driver and Software CD Windows Driver Installation Kigh Point RocketRAID 3540 Driver and Software Installation Driver and Software CD The RocketRAID 3540 retail box includes a Driver and Software CD This CD can be used to generate driver d
70. will open the driver and software packag Double click the rr3xxx mac v120 113007 dmg file to start the installer When the Installer window opens click the Continue button The installer will ask you to select a destination for the driver Make sure to select the boot Volume the driver must be installed to System Library Extensions folder in order to function properly Click the Install button You will be prompted clicking the install button will install a basic installation of the software package on your selected volume Confirm the prompt to install the software package You will then be notified that a reboot is needed to install the software Click Continue Installation The driver will then be installed into the system Click Restart to restart the ystem 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 Kigh Point Appendix Customer Support WighPoint CustomerSupport Customer Support If you encounter any problems while utilizing the RocketRAID 3540 or have any questions about this or any other HighPoint product feel free to contact our Customer Sup
71. zed once The disk initialize process should only take a few seconds Initializing disks may result in loss do not initialize disks unless they are to be configured into RAID arrays Initializing hard disks 1 Select the Manage Device function to access the device management page 2 Click on the Initialize Devices button towards the upper portion of the interface screen 5 2 WighPoint Web RAID Management Interface Event Task Setting BERETTE Rescan Devices Initialize Devices 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 Click the Create Array button The create array page will appear DETI Event Logical Device Information Name Type Capacity Cache Policy OS Name Status Create Array Physical Device Information Location Model Capacity Max Free S 1 3 1 WDC WD5000YS 01MPB0 WD WMANU1006170 500 02 GB 500 02 GB EJ 1 3 2 WDC WD5000YS 01MPB0 WD WMANU1018718 500 02 GB 500 02 GB EJ 1 3 3 WDC WD5000YS 01MPB0 WD WMANU1016543 500 02 GB 500

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