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1. Wuuu u dseveversrsererere rense e renee snr renee renses 7 8 6 Uninstalling the Diver zsioccs lt ccsssesecencescvius Soceencepesscevessiscerpevsdassgetcustestsolenssvangevonsyts 7 9 jp Vypa Table of Contents Chapter 8 Mac OSX Driver and RAID Management Software 1 Installing the driver and RAID utility 000 cecseeeeeceseeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 8 1 Appendix Customer Support CUSLOMER SUpport vcs cnt desde adel dinates A 1 HighPoint tl Chapter 1 Introduction Contents of this Chapter About this guide Introducing the RocketRAID 2640X4 SAS Host Adapter Product Features Understanding RAID Concepts and Terminology WighPoint Introduction About this Guide The RocketRAID 2640X4 SAS Host Adapter s User s Guide provides information about the functions and capabilities of this host adapter product and instructions for installing configuring and maintaining RAID arrays hosted by this adapter cards Introducing the RocketRAID 2640X4 Host Adapters The RocketRAID 2640X4 is high performance SAS RAID solutions delivering reliability to demanding data intensiveapplications such as tiered storage environments disk to disk or disk to disk to tape backup security and surveillance video editing and digital content creation Support for both SAS and SATA 3Gb s drives on the same controller maintains configuration optimization for performance based on the characteristics of SAS and SATA driv
2. Device Status 1 1 WD WMASU0S256125612 RAID S 0 82 o OK SMART 1 2 WD WM4SU05258225822 RAID_S_O 86 0 OK SMART 1 3 8361P6S00BVS RAID_S_O 95 None OK SMART 1 4 WD WMA4SU05937563756 None 84 0 OK SMART RocketRAID 2640X4 Web RAID Management Interface Controller ID Which controller card the disk is attached to Port ff Port location of the hard disk Device Serial Number 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 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 To view the S M A R T status of a hard disk 1 Select Manage Device from the menu 2 Click the SMART link to display the S M A R T information page 5 9 WighPoint RocketRAID 2640X4 Web RAID Management Interface Model Number
3. RocketRAID 2640X4 Web RAID Management Interface Windows Driver Installation Win2000 XP Win 2003 Win 2008 Before installing the RocketRAID host adapter s device driver make sure the RocketRAID host adapter and all required hard disks have been installed into the system s chassis disk enclosure refer to the Hardware Installation section Installing the RocketRAID driver for an existing Windows system After the operating system has booted Windows will automatically detect the RocketRAID host adapter 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 2 Click on the Include this location in the search option and select the system s floppy drive generally Disk A Next insert the Driver Installation diskette into the system s floppy drive 3 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 4 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 5 Windows will then display a second Found New Hardware Wizard window repeat
4. High Point 6 13 mmm Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE Driver Support install the module type in the following commands first change directory to where the proper rr26xx ko locates install d lib modules uname r kernel drivers scsi install c rr26xx 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 iecho modprobe rr26xx gt etc init d hptdriver chmod 755 etc init d hptdriver ln sf etc init d hptdriver etc rc d rc3 d SO1hptdriver ln sf etc init d hptdriver etc rc d rc4 d SO1hptdriver ln sf etc init d hptdriver etc rc 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 ext2 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 rr26xx 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
5. 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 interference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected Consult the dealer or an experienced radio TV technician for help Modifications not expressly approved by the manufacturer could void the user s authority to operate the equipment under FCC rules This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the following two conditions 1 this device may not cause harmful interference and 2 this device must accept any interference received including interference that may cause undesired operation European Union Compliance Statement This Information Technologies Equipment has been tested and found to comply with the following European directives European Standard EN55022 1998 Class B European Standard EN55024 1998
6. The Event Management page will be displayed ome 5 11 WighPoint RocketRAID 2640X4 Web RAID Management Interface Manage Clear Date Time Description RAID 0 Array RAID_O_1 has been created successfully Disk 1 WDC WOSoouAKs 2006 3 24 0 55 49 22TMAD WD WCAPW2931056 1 1 Disk 2 WOC WDSOO0AAKS 22TMAD W Ai WCAPW2931241 1 2 Disk 3 WDC WDSOOOAAKS 22TMAD WD WCAPW27ES822 1 3 Disk 4 WOC WDSOOD4AKS 22TMAD WD WCAPW2920313 1 4 2006 3 24 0 55 16 Array RAID 0 1 has been deleted successfully RAID 0 Array RAID 0 1 has been created successfully Disk 1 WOC WDSOO0AAKS 2006 3 24 0 54 9 22TMAD WO WCAPW2931056 1 1 Disk 2 WDC WDSODDAAKS 22TMAD WO WCAPW2931241 1 2 Disk 3 WDC WDSOOQAAKS 22TMAD WD WCAPW2785822 1 3 Disk 4 WDC WDSOOD4AKS 22TMAD WO WCAPW2920313 1 4 Setting Logout HighPoint Web RAID Management 1 4 8 Copyright c 1996 2008 HighPoint Technologies Inc All Rights Reserved Click the Clear button to clear the event log Managing Tasks With HighPoint RAID Management Software you can setup background rebuild and verify tasks to help maintain the integrity of your drives and data The tasks can be scheduled periodically You can select menu Task to enter Task Management page Setting g Logout Health Inspector Scheduler Task Name Select a Schedule Daily Weekly C Bi Weekly Monthly Select a time Sunday A eo o o ae Submit HighPoint Web RAID Mana
7. the Backup button will save a copy of the card s current BIOS to the directory of your choice For other operating systems In order to update the BIOS the system must be booted into DOS mode using a DOS boot diskette or CD image 1 Copy the load exe and the bios image file to the bootable floppy diskette you may need to use a different floppy depending upon how much space is available on the boot diskette this can vary 0 ih Pott RocketRAID 2640X4 BIOS Utility 2 If you are booting from a CD image you will need to add these files to the CD Insert the boot image media into the appropriate drive and boot the system 3 Once the A gt prompt has appeared insert the media that contains the required BIOS files and type the following command load xxx xxx Then press enter Note xxx xxx the name of the BIOS image file type it exactly as it appears 4 The utility will scan for the controller and ask if you want to backup the BIOS save a copy of the current BIOS to a floppy diskette This is optional you can answer No and continue Note This option will not function if the system was booted from CD 5 The utility will then ask if you want to flash the controller upgrade the BIOS Select Y for yes 6 The utility will display a progress bar during the flash procedure then will attempt verify the update 7 Once complete the system can be rebooted 5 BIOS Additional Settings
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9. Fedora Core 2 1 Start installing Fedora Linux by booting from the installation CD 2 On Welcome to Fedora Linux installation screen a prompted label boot will appear at the bottom of the screen Just press Enter 3 When prompted the warning No hard drives have been found press ALT F2 to switch the shell on console 2 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 6 4 igh Paint Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE Driver Support 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 RR26xx driver on an Existing System If you use a SCSI adapter to boot your system you must make sure the RR26xx 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 ext
10. Manage Array from the menu Manage Event Setting S Logout Logical Device Information Name Type Capacity Cache Policy OS Name Status Physical Device Information Location EJ 1 1 1 2 EJ 14 3 EJ 1 4 Model WDC WD5000AAKS 22TMA0 WD WCAPW2931056 WDC WD5000AAKS 22TMA0 WD WCAPW2931241 WDC WD5000AAKS 22TMA0 WD WCAPW2785822 WDC WDS000AAKS 22TMAD WD WCAPW2920313 Capacity 500 02 GB 00 02 GB 500 02 GB Max Free 0 00 GB 0 00 GB 0 00 GB 0 00 GB Rescan Beeper Mute HighPoint Web RAID Management 1 4 8 Copyright c 1996 2008 HighPoint Technologies Inc All Rights Reserved 2 Click the Create Array button The create array page will appear Manage Logout Create Array Array Type Array Name Initialization Method Cache Policy Block Size Available Disks Capacity According to the max free space on the selected disks SBOD Volume z Default Quick Init z Location Model DSa Wearwassiose eo D piman mawo Dwa Seren DSa Weapweszosia o Maximum MB Capacity Max Free 500 02 GB Gi 500 02 GB 500 02 GB 375 02 B 375 02 GB 375 02 375 02 500 02 GB ga WighPoint RocketRAID 2640X4 Web RAID Management Interface 3 Choose the array type you want to create from the drop down list 4 Enter a name for the array this is optional 5 If you are creating a redundant RAID array RAID1 5 10 select an initialization o
11. The RocketRAID host adapter s BIOS utility has several other configurable settings that can be accessed when flashing the BIOS Using the hptflash exe utility from within a Windows operating system Click on the Configure button from the main interface window The following window will appear WighPotnt ee RocketRAID 2640X4 BIOS Utility Load Utility for Flash EPROM 2 5 50120 2COFNIG Config Parameters Time waiting for CTRL H key seconds 8 Reallocate EBDA Enable INT 13 support Enable BES validation Disable Stop on error Enable Boot disk hook last Pisae r Private stack size pro Maximum array count Cancel Use the drop down menus to enable or disable controller functions Using the DOS mode utility load exe Load xxx xxx C Note xxx xxx refers to the BIOS image file A BIOS menu similar to the BIOS setup utility will be displayed This sub menu allows the administrator to enable disable various controller functions Several of the more common functions are described below Stop on Error disabling this option will prompt the card to automatically skip error messages during bootup broken array warnings if the adminis trator does not input the Ctrl H command to access the BIOS menu EBDA Reallocation this function r
12. To update the driver simply reinstall the driver following the steps in previous section Install RR26xx Driver on an Existing System Replace the driver module rr26xx ko in the lib modules kernel ver kernel drivers scsi If the driver is loaded in initrd e g when system is installed on the controller Weigh Point ep Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE Driver Support you need to run mkinitrd to update the initrd file Also if you are using lilo boot loader you need to run lilo again 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 RocketRAID controller Installation of the management software is optional but recommended To configure HighPoint RAID Management Software to work with RocketRAID controller driver you should setup etc hptcfg to be the driver name echo rr26xx gt etc hptcfg Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents for more information 7 Uninstalling You can only uninstall the driver when your system is not booting from devices attached to RR26xx controller Just remove the the added before in the file rr26xx from the file etc sysconfig kerne and etc fstab then then the new initrd file lt lt ih Pott Chapter 7 FreeBSD Driver Support Contents of this Chapter 1 Installing FreeBSD on the RocketRAID 26404 Controller 2 Installing FreeBSD
13. WOC WDSOO0044KS 22TMAD WD WCAPW293 1056 Temperature Celsius 33 S M A R T Enabled Disable S M A R T Attributes ID Name Threshold Worst Value Status 1 Read Error Rate 51 200 200 oK 3 Spin up Time 21 176 177 oK 4 Start Stop Count 0 100 100 oK 5 Re allocated Sector Count 140 200 200 oK 7 Seek Error Rate 51 200 200 oK 9 Power on Hours Count it 98 98 oK a Spin up Retry Count 51 100 100 oK b Drive Calibration Retry Count 51 100 100 oK c Drive Power Cyde Count 0 100 100 oK cO Power Off Retract Count 0 200 200 oK cl Emergency Retract Cycle Ct 0 200 200 oK c4 Relocation Event Count 0 200 200 oK c5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 200 200 ok c6 Off line Scan Uncorrectable Sector Count 0 200 200 oK c7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate 0 200 200 oK c8 Multi zone Error Rate 51 200 200 oK HDD Temperature Threshold Set harddisk temperature threshold F 140 Set 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 To rescan the devices 1 Select menu Manage Device 2 Click Rescan Devices button Note When
14. are detected by this utility If any of the hard disks are not detected power down the system and check the power and cable connections Ril Pov HR Chapter 3 BIOS Utility Contents of this Chapter RocketRAID 2640X4 BIOS Utility 1 BIOS Command Overview 2 Creating RAID Arrays 3 Adding Remove Spare Disks 4 Updating the BIOS 5 BIOS Additional Settings HighPoint RocketRAID 2640X4 BIOS Utility RocketRAID BIOS Utility Access the RocketRAID host adapter s BIOS utility using the Ctrl H This command should be displayed automatically when the host adapter s BIOS screen appears during the system s boot up procedure 1 BIOS Command Overview The BIOS Utility provides a wide selection of RAID related commands These commands are displayed towards the top of the utility s interface Rocket RAID 2640X4 BIOS Setting Utility v1 0 Cc 2004 2006 HighPoint Technologies Inc All rights reserved ets co to ran mos ering venis Press lt Ctrl gt lt H gt to run BIOS Setting Utility Use the lt arrow keys to scroll through the various commands and the T4 arrows to browse through the corresponding command menus Use the ENTER key to execute the selected command The ESC button can be used to cancel the selected command or return to the previ ous command menu Create this command is used to create RAID arrays Section 2 discusses this command in detail Delete
15. 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 Click the Maintenance button Click the Add Disk button gt A w N If the disk is successfully added to the array rebuild process will start automatically Note Ifthe 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 WighPoint RocketRAID 2640X4 Web RAID Management Interface Verifying an Array For a RAID 1 or RAID 1 0 array verify process compares the data of one mirror pair with the other For RAID 5 verify process calculates RAIDS 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 2 Click the Maintenance button 3 Click the Verify button to start the verify process Rebuilding an Array When a redundant array enters a critical broken state a rebuild is necessary to restore the array s redundancy security
16. be named at a later time and the name of the array can be changed at any time On the Create menu use the 1 arrow key to highlight the Select Devices item and press ENTER A device list will appear and display all available hard disk drives Highlight the target disks that you want to use and press ENTER to select them After all of the disks have been selected press the ESC key to return to the Create Menu Next Use the J arrow key to highlight the Capacity GB option and press ENTER The total available capacity will be displayed Press ENTER if you wish to use all available space If you wish to reserve disk space for additional arrays single disks use the keyboard to input the amount of space in GB you wish to set aside for this particular array and press ENTER High ee RocketRAID 2640X4 BIOS Utility Note Multiple arrays can be created using the same set of hard disk drives The Capacity option allows you to set aside disk space that be used to create another array set as a spare disk or partitioned to act as a single disk by the operating system 8 To complete the creation procedure use the J arrow key to highlight the Start Creation item and press ENTER Press the Y yes key to create the array or N no key to cancel the creation process 3 Adding Remove Spare Disks This command is used to assign a hard disk to act as a Spare Disk Spare Disks are used to automatically rebuild Redundant RAID array
17. ensure that it works for your system by load it during system booting If the module has been loaded successfully you should see the RR26xx banner and a system booting Fiske 0 FreeBSD Driver Support If the module has been loaded successfully you should see the RR26xx banner and a display screen of the attached drives You can now access the drives as a SCSI device if you have no other SCSI device the first device is dev da0 then dev dal etc Example F1 FreeBSD Default F1 gt gt FreeBSD i386 BOOT Default 0 ad 0 a boot loader boot BTX loader 1 00 BTX version is 1 01 Console internal video keyboard BIOS driver A is disko BIOS driver C is disk2 BIOS 636kB 74512kB available memory FreeBSD i386 bootstrap loader Revision 0 8 mailto jkh narf osd bsdi com Sat Apr 21 08 46 19 GMT 2001 Loading boot defaults loader conf kernel text 0x24fldb data 0x3007ec 0x2062c lt For FreeBSD 5 1 and later select 6 on Welcome to FreeBSD screen Hit Enter to boot immediately or any other key for command prompt ooting kernel in 9 seconds B lt press SPACE key Type for a list of commands help for more de tailed help ok load rr26xx modules rr26xx ko text 0xf571 data 0x2c8 0x254 ok autoboot Note If you have configured a RAID 1 0 using 4 disks it will be registered to system as device dev da0 You can use stand sysinstall to create part
18. 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 sda1 mnt raid ext3 defaults 0 FEAP o gy Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE 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 rr26xx 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 rr26xx 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 RR26xx controller you can update the driver as below cp rr26xx ko lib modules uname r updates mkinitrd uname r For FC2 the commands should be cp rr26xx ko lib modules uname r kernel drivers scsi mkinitrd preload scsi_mod preload s mod with rr26xx boot initrd uname r img uname r Updating the Driver 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 drivers scsi dire
19. floppy may be inaccessible during installation In this case please remove the CD reboot from the installed system and load the driver manually from floppy again when booting from controller After system boots up you can run the postinstall script to install the driver 7 5 WighPoint FreeBSD Driver Support 3 Installing RR26xx Driver on an Existing System If you are currently running FreeBSD and would like to access drives or arrays attached to the RR26xx 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 rr26xx xxx ko modules rr26xx ko umount mnt for FreeBSD 5 x 6 x 7 x mount o ro dev fd0 mnt cp mnt rr26xx xxx ko boot kernel rr26xx ko umount mnt You can also extract the files from img files directly without using a floppy diskette For FreeBSD 4 x vnconfig vn0c rr26xx 7 0 img mount dev vn0c mnt vnconfig vn0c rr26xx 7 0 img cp mnt rr26xx xxx ko modules rr26xx ko vnconfig du vn0c myfilesystem mount mnt For FreeBSD 5 x 6 x 7 x mdconfig a t vnode f rr26xx 7 0 img u 0 mount dev md0O mnt cp mnt rr26xx xxx ko boot kernel rr26xx ko umount mnt mdconfig d u md0 Step 2 Test the Driver Module You can test out the module to
20. highlight the target array and press ENTER to view the information Initialize this function is used to prepare disks for use with RAID arrays Note Arrays cannot be created between disks that have not been initialized The following section discusses this command in detail 2 Creating RAID Arrays Initializing Disks Before creating a RAID array the disks must be initialized lt lt het RocketRAID 2640X4 BIOS Utility Initialization writes necessary RAID configuration information to the hard disk Use the lt arrow keys to select the Initialize command and press ENTER Warning Initialization will destroy all pre existing data on the selected hard disks Use the J arrow keys to highlight the target hard disk s and press ENTER Next press the Y yes key to initialize the selected disk s or N no key to cancel the initialization process Once initialized these disks can be utilized to create RAID arrays To create an array 1 Use the lt arrow keys to highlight the Create command and press ENTER to open the Create Menu Use the T J arrow keys to select the appropriate RAID level then press ENTER Next use the J arrow key to highlight the Array Name option and press ENTER The array name dialogue box will appear Use the keyboard to input a new Array Name and press the Enter key Note the Array Name command is optional it is not necessary to name the array The array can
21. load Spare disk A spare disk is a single disk that can be used to automatically rebuild a redundant array in case of drive failure Spare disks may also be members of a RAID array Any available space on these disks may be used to rebuild other broken arrays Legacy disk Disks attached to the host adapter that contain valid partition tables will be identified as legacy disks A legacy disk attached to the host adapter 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 hone Chapter 2 Hardware Description Installation Contents of this Chapter RocketRAID 2640X4 Hardware 1 RocketRAID 2640X4 Host Adapter Layout 2 LED Connections 3 Installing the RocketRAID Host Adapter 4 Verifying Installation HighPoint RocketRAID 2640X4 Hardware Description Installation 1 RocketRAID 2640X4 Host Adapter layout RocketRAID 2640X4 RocketRAID 2640X4 messe eco B 20000 Oc i AL i PORT4 errs PORTS TlHOd LuOd Port1 Port4 These represent the host adapter s four SAS channels 2 LED Connections LED connectors disk activity disk failure LED support is discussed in greater detail in the LED Connection section The RocketRAID 2640X4 host adapter has two LED jumpers that are used to indicate the activity and failure status of hard disks attached to the card s four SAS channels 3 Pin Co
22. prompted label ok will appear at the bottom of the screen 4 Insert RR26xx driver diskette into floppy drive now Type in load diskx rr26xx x x without quotation mark and then press enter for FreeBSD 4 3 RELEASE ok load kernel ok load disk1 rr26xx 4 3 ko for FreeBSD 4 4 RELEASE ok load kernel ok load disk1 rr26xx 4 4 ko Kigh Point 7 2 FreeBSD Driver Support for FreeBSD 4 5 RELEASE ok load disk1l rr26xx 4 5 ko for FreeBSD 4 6 2 RELEASE ok load disk1l rr26xx 4 6 2 ko for FreeBSD 4 7 RELEASE ok load disk1l rr26xx 4 7 ko for FreeBSD 4 8 RELEASE ok load disk1 rr26xx 4 8 ko for FreeBSD 4 9 RELEASE ok load disk1l rr26xx 4 9 ko for FreeBSD 4 10 RELEASE ok load disk1 rr26xx 4 10 ko for FreeBSD 4 11 RELEASE ok load disk1 rr26xx 4 11 ko for FreeBSD 5 0 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr26xx 5 0 ko for FreeBSD 5 1 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr26xx 5 1 ko for FreeBSD 5 2 1 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr26xx 5 2 1 ko for FreeBSD 5 3 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr26xx 5 3 ko 7 3 WighPoint FreeBSD Driver Support HighPoint for FreeBSD 5 4 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr26xx 5 4 ko for FreeBSD 5 3 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr26xx 5 3 amd64 ko for FreeBSD 5 4 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr26xx 5 4 amd64 ko for FreeBSD 6 0 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr26xx 6 0 ko for FreeBSD 6 0 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr26xx 6 0 amd64 ko for FreeBSD 6 1 RELEASE ok load disk0O rr26xx 6 1 ko for F
23. s CD ROM or DVD drive 3 The CD should autorun and display the following screen HighPoint Products Software CD ReadMe First Create Driver Diskette Install RAID Management Software 4 Select the Browse the CD option and access the directory provided for the RR2640X4 host adapter 5 Open the BIOS directory and double click the hptflash exe icon This will start the BIOS flash utility RR2640X4 example below uj HighPoint Flash Utility Controller 0 RocketRAID 2640X4 Controller BIOS Image Open Config Flash Model WINBOND W39L020 0xB5DA Backup Exit WighPoint 3 5 RocketRAID 2640X4 BIOS Utility 5 Open the BIOS directory and double click the hptflash exe icon This will start the BIOS flash utility RR2640X4 example below taj HighPoint Flash Utility Controller D RocketRAID 2640X4 Controller BIOS Image Open Config Flash Model WINBOND W39L020 0xB5DA m o Flash Backup Exit 6 Select the appropriate model from the drop down menu labeled Controller and press the Open button this will allow you to browse to the extracted BIOS download step 1 7 Highlight the image file and click the Flash button The utility will update the card then verify the update 8 Once complete click on the Exit button to close the utility Shutdown and reboot the system Note
24. 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 Hook OO Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE Driver Support 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 rawrite 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 command to make the boot diskette Insert a floppy disk into the floppy drive and type the command example dd if rr26xx fedora 8 img of dev fd0 Step 4 Prepare the Driver Diskette 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 RR26xx driver automatically When prompted Do you wish to load any more drive
25. 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 5 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 righ Point Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE Driver Support Step 3 Configure System to Automatically Load the Driver Most likely you will not want to type in insmod rr26xx 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 rr26xx ko locates cp rr26xx 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 cp rr26xx ko lib modules uname r kernel drivers scsi depmod In sf etc init d hptdriver etc rc d rc3 d S01hptdriver In sf etc init d hptdriver etc rc d rc4 d SO1hptdriver In sf etc init d hptdriver etc rc d rc5 d SO01hptdriver Step 4 Configure System to Mount Volumes when Startup Now you can inform the system to automatically mount the array by modifying the file
26. steps through 4 6 Remove the Driver Installation diskette from the floppy drive then Shut down and restart the computer Installation Verification After the driver has been installed and the system has been restarted 1 Click the Start button then right click My Computer icon Select the Properties item from the pop up menu 2 In the popup window select Hardware tab and then click Device Manager button WighPoint RocketRAID 2640X4 Web RAID Management Interface 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 Installing the RocketRAID driver during a fresh Windows installation 1 After booting from the Windows CD or DVD ROM when the Windows Setup blue screen appears look towards the bottom of the screen Windows will prompt you to press the F6 key if you want to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver Press the F6 key at this time 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 Next the setup program will prompt for the insertion of the driver diskette Please insert the driver diskette and then press ENTER to continue The next window will display several driver options Please
27. 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 RAID1 array the array will be non redundant until the procedure is complete 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 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 Renaming an Array To rename an array 1 Select Manage Array from the menu 2 Click on the Maintenance button 3 Enter a new name for the array 4 Click the Rename button Note An array running background tasks cannot be renamed 4 Device Management Select the Manage Device function to access the device management page 5 7 WighPoint Manage Event RocketRAID 2640X4 Web RAID Management Interface Rescan Devices Initialize Devices Controller 1 RocketRAID 2640X4 Controller Model Device 1 3 1 Revision Unplug Location Capacity Max Free Serial Number Ss Model Device 1 3 2 Revision Unplug Location Capacity Max Free Serial Number Model De
28. until initialization is complete Background initialization Background initialization allows the array to be used immediately For RAID1 and RAID 10 arrays initialization will results in data being duplicated identically to the mirror pair For RAIDS arrays initialization will result in parity being generated from all array members Note An un initialized RAID1 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 Kigh Point Introduction Online Capacity Expansion OCE This feature allows disks to be added to existing RAID arrays in order to increase the array s capacity without fear of data loss Any number of disks can be added to an array at any time Data can be accessed and utilized even while being redistributed Online RAID Level Migration This term describes the ability to change one type of array RAID level into a different type of array changing a RAID 1 array into a RAID 10 array for example Data is still accessible during the migration process and a base level of security is still active OCE ORLM and the RocketRAID 2640X4 This host adapter support both Online Capacity Expansion OCE and Online RAID Level Migration ORLM Both features are supported by a single function an array can be transformed from one RAID level to another RAID level while simultaneously being resized even under I O
29. 0 3 press F6 For SuSE 9 3 10 0 OpenSuSE 10 2 press F5 For SuSE 10 1 press F3 for more options then press F5 For OpenSuSE 10 3 press F6 and boot with option insmod floppy 3 Insert the Driver Disk when it displays Please insert the Driver Update floppy Note For SuSE 9 1 x86 64 the setup kernel doesn t include a floppy controller driver so the floppy drive is not accessible You have to use a USB floppy to load the driver 4 For SuSE 9 0 When Diver Update Menu pop up press OK and back for back to installer For other OS just skip this step 5 Continue the installation as normal You can refer to SuSE Linux documents about OS installation Additional Installation Notes 1 The system device mapping order is the same as the order shown in RR26xx BIOS Setting Utility If you have no other SCSI adapters installed the device marked as BOOT or HDDO will be dev sda HDD1 will be dev sdb HDD will be dev sdc etc When creating mount points you must mount boot on dev sda 2 The driver may work incorrectly on some specific motherboard such as DFI77B VIA KT400 You can type acpi off when a prompted label boot appears When Error occurred while installing GRUB dialog appears you can change boot loader from GRUB to LILO 3 Since SuSE9 1 boot installation kernel does not load the driver for common floppy controller during installation so it is necessary to ins
30. 2 4 kernel driver file should be rr26xx 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 rr26xx ko Try to load SCSI modules first E g modprobe sd_mod insmod rr26xx ko 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 kernel using OpenBuild package for RR26xx controller To ensure the module has been loaded successfully you can check the driver status by typing in the command cat proc scsi rr26xx x where x is the filename you found under proc scsi rr26xx 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 rr26xx ko each time you boot up the system Therefore you must install the module and tell the system about it To
31. Checking Devices Status 6584 A i loin Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE Driver Support Using the following command to show driver status cat proc scsi rr26xx 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 rr26xx ko 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 rr26xx ko and your initrd file is boot initrd uname r img 1 If you are not booting from disks attached to RR26xx controller you can update the driver just by reinstalling it following the previous section Install RR26xx driver on an Existing System Overwrite the driver file in the directory lib modules uname r kernel drivers scsi cp f tmp rr26xx ko lib modules uname r kernel drivers scsi 2 If you are using a system installed to RR26xx controller you can update the driver file in the directory lib modules uname r updates then update the initrd file cp f tmp rr26xx 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 at
32. RocketRAID 2640X4 SAS Host Adapter User s Guide Kigh Point Revision 1 0 Date March 2008 HighPoint Technologies Inc Copyright Copyright 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 HighPoint Table of Contents Table of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction TAB OUH this G de sisse oeie enee Eea EEE Ea EEEE EEEE 1 1
33. The rebuild process for an array generally starts automatically If you have aborted a rebuild process you can start it manually To rebuild an array 1 Select menu Manage Array 2 Click the Maintenance button 3 Click the Rebuild button The rebuild process should begin 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 Click the Maintenance button 3 Select the target array type 4 Click the OCE ORLM button 5 The OCE ORLM page will appear The interface is similar to the array creation wizard WighPotnt 5 6 m RocketRAID 2640X4 Web RAID Management Interface Note When expanding a JBOD array all the original disks must be included in the target array and these disks must be selected in the same order as the original array If you want to migrate a JBOD array to another RAID level only the first member disk can be included in the target array For example a JBOD comprised of 3 disks 1 2 3 can only be migrated using disk 1 Disks 2 and 3 cannot be used disk 1 would have to be combined with other disks attached to the RocketRAID card 4 You cannot change an array
34. a 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 In the popup window select Hardware tab and then click Device Manager button 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 lt lt ih Poked Chapter 5 Web RAID Management Interface Contents of this Chapter RocketRAID 2640X4 BIOS Utility 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 RocketRAID 2640X4 Web RAID Management Interface 1 Web RAID 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 or FireFox To run the management interface start your browser and enter the following URL address https localhost 7402 If you are managing a remote system please change localhost to the server s host name or IP address The default user name is RAID and the initial password is hpt You can change the passw
35. cececacseacececseanacscessearaeaceeees 4 4 Chapter 5 Web RAID Management Interface 1 Web RAID Management Interface 0 eee eeeeceseeseeeceeceseeeeeeceecneeaeesecnesaeeeeeaeeaees 5 1 2 Preparing H rd disks usand gene aerogel 5 2 53 Array Management si scsscisscsssescsessceceavesaiccanspectuesssescosscecoseansen er EEEE E RE rese 5 2 4 Device Management c 2 sisscsscsvsisssisseasessieencostaauseasssnsdepcaaechdacsuhuessidneadotsansesvienignse 5 7 5 Configtiring Spare Disks sesctcsevseniscenssebesestsacetevaeealee cadee iKi a Hes eaS R e AEEA 5 10 6 Managing Events and Tasks o0 eee ceeceseeseceseeseceeeeeeceeeeeeeeneeeeecaeesaeceesaeenees 5 11 E t A EE A E A E Cerksueuieuaneasees 5 13 Chapter 6 Linux Driver Support 1 Fedora Core Linux installation Overview Wu u u dssesessre erne serene renerne renee nerne 6 1 2 Red Hat Enterprise CentOS Linux Overview Gu u sssesesseserere renses ere rer serene nes 6 10 3 SUSE Linux OVETVIEW sals sed sie taevesssbbascossebnedbscsntiaresscndeedaeesohasesuctecbevens senseebus 6 17 Chapter 7 FreeBSD Driver Support V OVEFVIEW ass rarere senere re Toros bens LER FEE serne Keb besa entesseentaaes 7 1 2 Installing FreeBSD on RocketRAID 26xx Controller sssseeeseseeeeeeererresrsresereeeee 7 1 3 Installing the RocketRAID 2640X4 Driver on an Existing System 75 A Updating the Driver asier de serne bren raneta Dyrs beherskede T 8 5 Installing RAID Management Software
36. ctory and load it by the script file e g etc init d hptdriver during the init process please replace it with the new driver rr26xx o or rr26xx ko 6 8 igh Paint Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE 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 RR26xx 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 RR26xx controller Just remove the lines you added to etc fstab and remove the file files you created in the etc init d Khod gy Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE Driver Support 1 Overview The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use RR26xx Controller on Red Hat Enterprise CentOS Linux system 2 Installing Red Hat Enterprise CentOS Linux on RR26xx controller If you would like to install Red Hat Enterprise CentOS Linux onto drives attached to RR26xx controller please perform the following operations Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation After you attach your hard disks to RR26xx controller you can use RR26xx BIOS Setting Utility to configure your hard disks as RAID arrays or just use them as single disks Before
37. e to the HighPoint RR26xx RAID Controller Installer Welcome to the Mac OS X Installation Program You will be guided through the steps necessary to install this software Go Back Continue 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 Exten sions 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 High Pou Mac OSX Driver 6 You will then be notified that a reboot is needed to install the software Click Continue Installation 7 The driver will then be installed into the system Click Restart to restart the system After the system restarts you can use a web browser to configure the controller and setup RAID arrays Use the MacOSX Disk Utility to create partitions the RAID arrays Uninstalling To uninstall the driver and management software double click the rr26xx MacOSX universal vxxx file 1 Locate and double click the uninstall command file 2 This will initiate the uninstall script and will open a Terminal window Enter the administrator password when prompted to delete the installed files Web RAID Management Utility Please refer to page 5 1 t
38. efers to Extended BIOS Data Area Disabling this feature may remedy boot problems associated with motherboards that halt after the RR2640X4 BIOS screen is displayed INT13 The card s boot function Disabling this feature removes the card s ability to boot the system This may be useful for systems that utilize multiple bootable controllers some motherboards may not be able to load the BIOS of each device during bootup which may impair the system s ability to boot from a specific device 3 8 WighPoint Chapter 4 Driver and Software Installation Microsoft Windows Contents of this Chapter Driver and Software CD Windows Driver Installation WighPoint RocketRAID 2640X4 Web RAID Management Interface Driver and Software CD The retail box includes a Driver and Software CD This CD can be used to generate driver diskettes and install the RAID Management software for a variety of operating systems To create a driver diskette 1 Insert the CD into the system s CD DVD drive The program should start automatically 2 Insert a blank floppy diskette into the system s floppy drive 3 Click on Create Driver Diskette 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 the appro priate host adapter model from the list Create driver diskette xl Please
39. ers 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 Ctil 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 Ctl gt lt Alt gt F 1 to continue the installation 3 Installing RR26xx driver on an Existing System Note If you use a SCSI adapter to boot your system you must make sure the RR26xx 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 6 12 igh Paint Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE Driver Support 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 1 rr26xx ko 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 1r26xx ko resides and typing in the command insmod rr26xx ko If you are using a distribution with
40. es available today Host Adapter Architecture PCI Express x4 e 4 Internal SAS SATA 3Gb s Device Ports e Up to 4 SAS SATA Hard Drives NCQ Native Command Queuing e Low Profile Advance RAID Features G Support RAID 0 1 5 10 and JBOD e Multiple RAID support e Multiple logical drive support e BIOS booting support e Online Array roaming Automatic drive insert remove detection e Automatic RAID rebuild e 64bit LBA support greater than 2TB per volume Array Monitors Alerts and Indicators Hard Drive LED Indicators Activity and Failed e Email Notification KAPo O Introduction e Alarm Buzzer alerts for drive array failure e Enclosure Management support with I2C and SPGIO RAID Management e Online Capacity Expansion OCE and Online RAID Level Migration ORLM e Quick and Background initialization for instant RAID configuration e Write Back and Write Through support e API library for customization CLI Command Line Interface e Web GUI RAID management local and remote monitoring SHI Drive analysis driven from S M A R T Operating System Support e Windows 2000 XP x64 2003 2008 Vista 32 and 64 bit Linux Fedora Core Red Hat Enterprise CentOS SuSE e Mac OS X 10 4 x and above e FreeBSD e Linux Open Source PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS Size Size 87 8mm x 64 3mm 3 45 L x 2 53 W EMI FCC Part 15 Class B and CE Thermal and Atmospheric Characteristics Work Temperature Ra
41. es instructions describing how to install and utilize the RocketRAID host adapter on a Fedora Core 6 Linux system 2 Installing Fedora Linux on RR26xx controller Note If the OS is running kernel that differs from the one supported by the precompiled driver the precompiled drivers cannot be used A driver can be built for this kernel using the OpenSource package for the RocketRAID host adapter This package is available from our website and is posted on the BIOS Driver page for the corresponding RocketRAID host adapter If you would like to install Fedora Linux onto drives attached to RR26xx controller please perform the following operations Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation After you attach your hard disks to RR26xx controller you can use RR26xx 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 RR26xx controller from your system Note If you have other SCSI adapters installed you must make sure the RR26xx 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
42. g RAID Management Software HighPoint RAID Management Software is used to configure and keep track of your hard disks and RAID arrays attached to RR26xx controller Installation of the manage ment software is optional but recommended To configure HighPoint RAID Management Software to work with RR26xx driver you should setup etc hptcfg to be the driver name echo rr26xx gt etc hptcfg Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents for more information WighPottd ________ gy 6 Uninstalling You can only uninstall the driver when your system is not booting from devices attached to RR26xx controller Just remove the line 1126xx_load YES in boot defaults loader conf and then delete the driver module modules rr26xx ko or boot kernel rr26xx ko lt lt ih Pott Chapter 8 Mac OSX Driver Contents of this Chapter Installing the driver and RAID utility HighPoint Mac OSX Driver 1 Installing the driver and RAID utility Installing the package 1 8 1 Double click the package labeled rr26xx MacOSX universal vxxx dmg to start the installation process xxx refers to the revision of the driver This will open the driver and software packag Double click the rr26xx MacOS X universal vxxx dmg file to start the installer When the Installer window opens click the Continue button 000 Install HighPoint RR26xx RAID Controller Welcom
43. ge to load the driver at boot time 1 Edit the file etc sysconfig kernel and add the rr26xx module to the line INITRD_MODULES e g Example INITRD_MODULES reiserfs rr26xx 2 Run the depmod command to update the module configuration depmod 3 Next run the mkinitrd command to update the initrd file mkinitrd 4 If you are using the lilo boot loader run lilo again lilo 6 20 HighPoint Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE Driver Support Step 4 Configure System to Mount Volumes when Startup Now you can inform the system to automatically mount the array by modifying the file etc fstab E g You can add the following line to tell the system to mount dev sdal to location mnt raid after startup dev sdal mnt raid ext2 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 rr26xx 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 rr26xx x This command will show the driver version number physical device list and logical device list 5 Updating the Driver
44. gement 14 8 Copyright c 1996 2008 HighPoint Technologies Inc All Rights Reserved 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 WighPoint 5 12 RocketRAID 2640X4 Web RAID Management Interface 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 Manage Event Auto Rebuild TT Enable auto rebuild Change Continue Rebuilding on error I Enable Continue Rebuilding on error Change Audible Alarm Enable audible alarm Change EventLog Path Set EventLog Path Ie WINDOWS Change Rebuild Priority Set Rebuild Priority Medium Change Spindown Idle Disk Set Spindown Idle Disk minutes p 0 Means Disabled Change SAF TE Set SAF TE Config File no config file z Change Enable Audible Alarm This setting enables and disables the RocketRAID host adapter s alarm Listening Port Change Listening Port This is the TCP port number utilized by the HighPoint RAID Management Service in _ WighPoint RocketRAID 2640X4 Web RAID Management Interface order to communicate with the management console and web browser software When you connect to the service the port value you enter mus
45. he Driver Diskette If you are installing FreeBSD you must prepare a driver disk for RR26xx 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 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 MighPoint 7 FreeBSD Driver Support you are installing FreeBSD 7 0 versions dd if freebsd_7 0 img of dev fd0 Step 4 Install FreeBSD 1 Start installing the FreeBSD by booting from installation CD 2 If you are installing FreeBSD 5 0 or earlier versions skip this step When Wel come to FreeBSD screen appears select 6 3 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 disk0 BIOS driver B is diskl BIOS driver C is disk2 BIOS 636kB 74512kB available memory FreeBSD i386 bootstrap loader Revision 0 8 mailto jkh narf osd bsdi com Sat Apr 21 08 46 19 GMT 2001 Hit Enter to boot immediately or any other key for command prompt Booting kernel in 9 seconds lt press SPACE key A
46. he Web utility utilizes a universal interface and operates in the same manner as revisions released for other operating systems WighPole e Appendix Customer Support WighPoint Customer Support Customer Support If you encounter any problems while utilizing the RocketRAID host adapter or have any questions about this or any other HighPoint product feel free to contact our Customer Support Department Troubleshooting Checklist Before contacting our Customer Support department Make sure the latest BIOS driver and RAID Software have been installed for the RocketRAID host adapter 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 408 240 6119 9 00AM 5 00PM Pacific Standard Time Additional information about HighPoint products is available from our web site http www highpoint tech com KAPo O 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
47. installation you must remove all the disk drives which are not physically attached to RR26xx controller from your system Note If you have other SCSI adapters installed you must make sure the RR26xx 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 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 6610 A ih rine Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE Driver Support rawrite exe It can be found on the Red Hat Enterprise CentOS 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 boot diskette Insert a floppy disk into the floppy drive and type the command amd64 driver for example dd if rr26xx rhel5u1 img of dev fd0 Step 4 Install Red Hat Enterprise CentOS Linux Installation steps for other RedHa
48. it provides Note If you have other SCSI adapters installed you must make sure the RR26xx 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 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 susedd img On a DOS or Windows system you can make the driver diskette using rawrite exe It can be found on the SuSE 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 High Point _ ______ 6 17 Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE Driver Support Insert a floppy disk into the floppy drive and type the command dd if rr26xx suse 10 3 img of dev fd0 Step 4 Install SuSE Linux 1 Start installing by booting from SuSE installation CD 2 When CD boots press the Alt or F3 for Driver Disk and select Installation option For SuSE9 0 press F3 For SuSE Linux 9 1 9 2 1
49. itions and disklabels like da0sle on da0 Then you can create new filesystem using newfs dev da0sle 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 rr26xx each time you boot up the system Therefore you must install the module and tell the system about it To configure WighPoint FreeBSD Driver Support system to automatically load the driver type in the following commands echo rr26xx_load YES gt gt boot defaults loader conf This tells the loader to try loading the RR26xx module together with the kernel Now reboot the system RR26xx 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 rr26xx c 200 0 Then please check whether node dev rr26xx exists in dev directory Step 4 Configure the System to Mount Volumes at Startup Instruct the system to automatically mount the array by modifying the file etc fstab Example Add the following line to instruct the system to mount dev dalsle to location mnt hpt after startup dev dalsle mnt hpt ufs rw 0 0 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 5 Installin
50. lling Fedora Linux by booting from the installation CD 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 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 The system will 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 installa tion completed Righ Poot lt Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE Driver Support load the driver automatically Installation steps for Fedora Core 1 amp Core 3 amp Core 4 amp Core 6 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 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 Now the system will load RR26xx driver automatically 5 Continue the installation as usual Installation steps for
51. nge 5 C 55 C Relative Humidity Range 5 60 non condensing Storage Temperature 20 80 C MTBF 920 585 Hours Electrical Characteristics PCI e 3 3V Power 5W Understanding RAID Concepts and Terminology The following concepts and terminology is commonly used when describing the Kigh Point Introduction functions of the RocketRAID Host Adapter cards 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 2640X4 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 array using the host adapter s BIOS Configuration Utility it will create the array in un initialized state The initialization process can be completed after installing the driver and management software When creating an array using the HighPoint RAID Management Console software you can specify an initialization option Skip initialization foreground and background Foreground initialization Foreground initialization will zero out all data on the array The array is not accessible by the operating system
52. nnections J1 J2 J1 provides LED support for Disk Activity while J2 supports Disk Failure J1 J2 H000 1234 Pins 1 4 represent each SAS channel port Pin Port 1 Pin 2 Port 2 etc hn RocketRAID 2640X4 Hardware Description Installation J3 This jumper is SGPIO signal The following diagram describes the connector pin J3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Pins defined as follows definitions Pin 1 NC Pin 2 SDATAIN Pin 3 GND Pin 4 SDATAOUT Pin 5 SLOAD Pin 6 GND Pin7 SCLOCK Pin 8 NC J5 These jumper can be used to select PCI E work model As following J5 Hoo 12 3 Connect Pin 1 and Pin 2 support PCI E X1 and connect Pin 2 and Pin 3 support PCI E X4 BEEP1 Speaker Alarm speaker the speaker emits and audible alarm in the case of disk array failure J7 This support SAF TE interface I2C J7 HOO 12 3 Pins defined as follow Pin 1 SCL Pin 2 GND Pin 3 SDA Ril Pov y RocketRAID 2640X4 Hardware Description Installation 4 Installing the RocketRAID Host Adapter Note Make sure the system is powered off before installing the RocketRAID host adapter The RocketRAID 2640X4 include both standard and low profile brackets It may be necessary to attach the low profile bracket in place of the standard bracket depend ing upon the chassis design The RocketRAID 2640X4 is a full height card and is not designed for use with low profile chassis 1 Open the system chassis and locate an u
53. nused PCI Express x4 2 Remove the PCI slot bracket cover 3 Gently insert the RocketRAID card into the PCI Express slot and secure the bracket to the system chassis illustration below shows RR2640X4 TY hott RocketRAID 2640X4 Hardware Description Installation 4 After installing the adapter attach hard disks to the host adapter using the data cable The RocketRAID 2640X4 model utilizes standard Internal SATA to SAS cables four are included in each retail box This card can support up to four SAS SATA hard disk drives The RocketRAID 2640X4 includes 4 internal SATA to SAS cables It can support up to four SAS SATA hard disk drives Note Many server level chassis include hard disk hot swap bays For these system chassis cables are attached to the chassis backplane rather than directly to each individual hard disk Consult the chassis s manual for proper installation procedures 5 Close and secure the system chassis 5 Verifying Installation Once the 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 BIOS Utility will be displayed during bootup 2 Press Ctrl H to access the RocketRAID adapter s BIOS Utility The BIOS Utility will display information about hard disks attached to the adapter Make sure all attached disks
54. on RocketRAID 26xx Controller 3 Installing the RocketRAID 2640X4 Driver on an Existing System 4 Updating the Driver 5 Installing RAID Management Software 6 Uninstalling the Driver HighPoint FreeBSD Driver Support 1 Overview The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use RocketRAID 26xx Controller on a FreeBSD system 2 Installing FreeBSD on RocketRAID 26xx Controller If you would like to install FreeBSD onto drives attached to RocketRAID 26xx controller please perform the following operations Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation After you attach your hard disks to RR26xx controller you can use RR26xx 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 RR26xx 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 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 t
55. ord after you have logged in Note the login information is saved in etc hptuser dat If you forget the password you can remove this file to reset the password If you can t connect to the local system please check and make sure a process named hptsvr is running If hptsvr is not running you can start it manually by using the following command from a terminal window Library StartupItems Hptsvr hptsvr If you can t connect to a remote system make sure hptsvr is running on that system and you can access the remote system via TCP IP connection If you have a firewall configured make sure TCP port 7402 is not blocked WighPoint RocketRAID 2640X4 Web RAID Management Interface 2 Preparing Hard disks Disks must be initialized before they can 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 Manage Event Task Setting Logout Help Technologies In 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 3 Array Management Creating an Array To create an array 2 m WighPotnt RocketRAID 2640X4 Web RAID Management Interface 1 Select
56. ption for the array Note An un initialized RAID1 or RAID10 array can still provide redundancy in case of a disk failure A RAIDS array however is not fault tolerant until initialization is finished 6 If you are creating RAIDS specify a cache policy for the array 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 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 Select Manage Array from the menu 5 4 m WighPotnt RocketRAID 2640X4 Web RAID Management Interface 2 Click on the Maintenance button An Array Information window will appear Array Information Device 1 1 _Unplug Device 1 2 Device 1 3 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 Adding Disks to an Array When an array member in a redundant array fails the array will
57. r disks Select No 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 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 6 2 igh Paint 10 Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE Driver Support exit Then switch back to console 1 and finish the installation Installation steps for Fedora 7 Start installing Fedora Linux by booting from the installation DVD 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 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 RR26xx 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 Continue the installation as usual Do not remove the floppy diskette until installation completed Installation steps for Fedora Core 5 Start insta
58. ract 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 igh Poe O Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE 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 rr26xx ko resides and typing in the command insmod rr26xx ko If you are using a distribution with 2 4 kernel it should be insmod rr26xx 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 rr26xx ko Try to load SCSI modules first E g modprobe scsi_mod modprobe sd_mod insmod rr26xx ko 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 kernel using Open Source package for RocketRAID controller To ensure the module has been loaded successfully you can check the driver status by typing in the command cat proc scsi rr26xx x where x is the filename you found under proc scsi rr26xx You
59. reeBSD 6 1 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr26xx 6 1 amd64 ko for FreeBSD 6 2 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr26xx 6 1 ko for FreeBSD 6 2 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr26xx 6 2 amd64 ko for FreeBSD 6 3 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr26xx 6 3 ko for FreeBSD 6 3 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr26xx 6 3 amd64 ko 7 FreeBSD Driver Support for FreeBSD 6 3 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr26xx 6 3 ko for FreeBSD 6 3 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr26xx 6 3 amd64 ko for FreeBSD 7 0 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr26xx 7 0 ko for FreeBSD 7 0 AMD64 RELEASE ok load disk0 rr26xx 7 0 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 disabled 1 under boot prompt to solve the problem 7 Before exit install an additional step must be taken to copy RR26xx driver module to system On the driver disk there is a setup script postinstall which will do this work for you Before you reboot the system press Alt F4 to the command shell and type the following commands mount ro dev fd0 mnt sh mnt postinstall umount mnt Then press Alt F1 to return to the setup screen and choose X Exit Install to finish Note On some systems the
60. s RAID 1 5 10 in the case of disk failure To set a hard disk to act as a Spare Disk use the T arrow keys to select a disk and press ENTER To remove the Spare Disk setting from a hard disk highlight the spare disk and press ENTER Generally single disks are designated to act as spares disks that are not configured into RAID arrays However in some instances disks that are members of RAID arrays may also be designated to act as a spare If the disks in question are part of a RAID array that did not utilize the full available capacity at the time of creation these disks may be used as spares For example a RAID 0 array was created between two 200GB hard disks but only 200GB of space out of a grand total of 400GB was assigned to that array In this example 200GB of disk space remains unallocated This unallocated space would allow these disks to be set as spares for a separate redundant array that falls into the same capacity range 200GB 4 Updating the BIOS BIOS updates are released periodically and posted on our website for download There are several ways to flash the host adapter s BIOS er High Point RocketRAID 2640X4 BIOS Utility For Windows based operating systems 1 Download the desired BIOS update from the Support section provided for the host adapter Extract the download to the directory of your choice 2 Insert the Driver and Software CD included with the retail box into the system
61. select a product RocketRAID 2640X4 Please selectthe diskette you want to create WighPoint RocketRAID 2640X4 Web RAID Management Interface 5 Click on the Please Select the Diskette you want to create drop down button and select the appropriate OS from the list Create driver diskette Please select a product RocketRAID 2640x4 nd Please select the diskette you want to create Windows driver ba Windows driver a Fedora Core 1 1386 driver Fedora Core 2 1386 driver Fedora Core 2 x86 64 driver Fedora Core 3 1386 driver Fedora Core 3 x86 64 driver Fedora Core 4 1386 driver Fedora Core 4 x86 64 driver Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 0 driver amd64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 0 driver athlon Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 0 driver i586 i 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 0 driver i686 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 0 driver x86 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 0 driver amd64 SuSE Linux Enterprise 9 driver SuSE Linux 8 x driver SuSE Linux 9 0 driver SuSE Linux 9 1 driver SuSE Linux 9 2 driver v 6 Click on the OK button to create the driver diskette To install the RAID software 1 Click on Install RAID Management Software ighPoint Products Software CD 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 Kigh Point
62. select the driver for the corresponding operating system and press ENTER to continue Windows Vista Driver Installation Installing the driver during a fresh Windows Vista installation 1 2 Boot from Windows Vista DVD When the screen where do you want to install Windows appears click Load driver and browse for the driver location Windows Vista can install drivers from several media types floppy diskette USB flash disk or CD Select the RocketRAID 2640X4 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 l WighPotnt Intall the RocketRAID 2640X4 host adapter into the PC then boot up Windows Vista 4 4 RocketRAID 2640X4 Driver and Software Installation 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 Windows needs your permission to continue select continue Select I don t have disc show me other options and then select Browse my computer for driver software Specify the location of the driver and click Next When asked Would you like to install this driver software select Install Reboot the system when prompted The RocketRAID 2640X4 will be available for use after Vist
63. t Enterprise CentOS Linux 1 Start installing Red Hat Enterprise CentOS Linux by booting from the installation CD 2 On Welcome to Red Hat Enterprise CentOS Linux installation screen a prompted label boot will appear at the bottom of the screen For RedHat Enterprise CentOS Linux 3 type in expert text without quotation mark For RedHat Enterprise CentOS Linux 4 x type in linux dd without quotation mark then press Enter For RedHat Enterprise CentOS Linux 5 x type in linux dd without quotation mark 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 4 The system will load RR26xx driver automatically Continue the installation as normal 5 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 igh Pott e Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE Driver Support system be able to boot RR26xx controller 6 Continue the installation as normal You can refer to Red Hat Enterprise CentOS Linux installation guide Note 1 The system device mapping order is the same as the order shown in RR26xx BIOS Setting Utility 2 On some system the LILO boot loader may be installed incorrectly unless you specify BIOS paramet
64. t be in accordance with the system port value on the service The default value is 7402 Enter a new port number and click the Change Port button to change the listening port Restrict to localhost access If this option is selected the HPT Web RAID Management Service will refuse any Remote Access request Please connect to the local machine by entering localhost in the URL bar Change 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 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 To test E mail notification 1 Enter the necessary information for the recipient 2 Click the Test button Kigh Po ni 5 14 Chapter 6 Linux Driver Support Contents of this Chapter Fedora Linux installation Overview Red Hat Overview SuSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES installation Overview HighPoint Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE Driver Support 1 Overview This section provid
65. tached to RR26xx controller Installation of the manage ment software is optional but recommended High Point 6 15 Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE Driver Support To configure HighPoint RAID Management Software to work with rr26xx driver you should setup etc hptcfg to be the driver name echo rr26xx gt etc hptcfg Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents for more information 7 Uninstalling You can only uninstall the driver when your system is not booting from devices attached to RR26xx controller Just remove the lines you added to etc fstab and remove the file files you created in the etc init d 6 16 igh Paint Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE Driver Support 1 Overview The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use Rocket RAID 26xx Controller on SuSE Linux system 2 Installing SuSE Linux on RR26xx Controller Note If you would like to install SuSE Linux onto drives attached to RR26xx controller please perform the following operations Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation After you attach your hard disks to RR26xx controller you can use RR26xx 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 RR26xx controller from your system command prompt window and follow the directions
66. tall a USB floppy drive to load additional driver m Si loin Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE Driver Support 3 Installing RR26xx Driver on an Existing System If you are currently running Linux and would like to access drives or arrays attached to the Rocket RAID 26xx controller you can perform the following steps Note 1 If you use a SCSI adapter to boot your system you must make sure the RR26xx 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 2 The driver may work incorrectly on some specific motherboard such as DFI77B KT400 You can add acpi off kernel parameter in the boot grub menu Ist kernel hd0 1 vmlinuz root dev hdal acpi off initrd hdO 1 initrd Step 1 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 SuSE 10 3 from driver diskette mount dev fd0 mnt floppy cd tar xfz mnt floppy linux suse i386 10 3 install update tar gz The driver modules will be extracted to directory lib modules kernel ver kernel drivers scsi Step 2 Test the Driver Module You can test out the module to ensure that it works for your system by typing in the command insmod rr26xx Sometimes insmod will report unresolved symbols when you at
67. tempt to load the module This can be caused by two ways 2 Next use the mkfs dev sdal command to setup a file system on this partition 1 The SCSI module is not loaded in kernel Try to load SCSI modules first HighPoint gi Linux Fedora Red Hat SuSE Driver Support E g insmod scsi_mod insmod sd_mod insmod rr26xx 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 kernel using the OpenBuild package for RocketRAID 26xx controller To ensure the module has been loaded successfully you can check the driver status by typing in the command cat proc scsi tr26xx x where x is the filename you found under proc scsi rr26xx 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 5 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 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 rr26xx each time you boot up the system You can add the driver to the initial RAM disk ima
68. this command will delete the selected RAID array Warning This command may result in permanent data loss it should only be used if data stored on the target array is no longer relevant or has been backed up to an alternate storage device Uppin ea RocketRAID 2640X4 BIOS Utility Add Remove Spare this command is used to assign hard disks to function as spare disks The controller is capable of using spare disks to automatically rebuild broken or faulted RAID arrays Section 3 discusses this command in detail Settings Set Boot Mark this function is used to designate a particular disk or RAID array to function as the host adapter s boot device Note This setting is only relevant if the motherboard s BIOS has set the host adapter to function as the system s primary boot device Staggered drive spin up This function is used to enable or disable staggered drive spin up support This setting by default is disabled Enabling staggered drive spin up will power up the hard disks one at a time approximately every two seconds View this command is used to select between two views Press the ENTER key to change the view Devices displays information about hard disks attached to the host adapter Use the T J arrow keys to highlight the target hard disk and press ENTER to view the information RAID Arrays displays information about RAID arrays attached to the host adapter Use the T arrow keys to
69. vice_1_3_4 Revision Unpiva Location Capacity Max Free Serial Number Model Device 1 3 5 Revision Unplug Location Capacity Max Free Serial Number WDC WDS5000YS 01MPB0 WD WMANU1006170 Read Ahead Enabled Change 07 02E07 Write Cache Enabled Change 1 3 1 TCQ Not Supported 500 02 GB NCQ Disabled Change 500 02 GB Status Normal WD WMANU1006170 WDC WD5000YS 01MPB0 WD WMANU1018718 Read Ahead Enabled Change 07 02E07 Write Cache Enabled Change 13 2 TQ Not Supported 500 02 GB NCQ Disabled Change 500 02 GB Status Normal WD WMANU1018718 WOC WOSO00YS 01MPB0 WD WMANU1016543 Read Ahead Enabled Change 07 02E07 Write Cache Enabled Change 1 3 4 TQ Not Supported 500 02 GB ncQ Disabled Change 00 02 GB Status Normal WO WMANU1016543 WDC WDSOO0YS 01MPBO WD WMANU1018709 Read Ahead Enabled Change 06 02E06 Write Cache Enabled Change 1 3 5 TcQ Not Supported 500 02 GB NCQ Disabled Change 500 02 GB Status Normal WD WMANU1018709 Manage Change Device Settings SHI Storage Health Inspector Storage Health Inspe tor SHI 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 The primary SHI interface displays a brief health summary of each hard disk WighPoint Controller ID Port Device Serial Number RAID sF a i powid
70. 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 10 WighPoint RocketRAID 2640X4 Web RAID Management Interface 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 AACA DE POG ATOLL Manage Event as Setting Logout Help Remove Spare Available Disks Add Spare HighPoint Web RAID Management 1 4 8 Copyright c 1996 2008 HighPoint Technologies Inc All Rights Reserved Adding a Spare Disk To add a spare disk select a disk from the Available Disks list and click 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 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 To view logged events Please select Event from the menu

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