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1. LSILEO CLO MegaRAID IDE ATA 66 and MegaRAID IDE 100 ATA 100 Linux Installation User s Guide MAN 795 LNX 12 13 00 Copyright 2000 LSI Logic Corporation All rights reserved LSI Logic Corporation RAID Storage Adapters Division 6145 D Northbelt Parkway Norcross GA 30071 This publication contains proprietary information which is protected by copyright No part of this publication can be reproduced transcribed stored in a retrieval system translated into any language or computer language or transmitted in any form whatsoever without the prior written consent of the publisher LSI Logic Corporation LSI Logic Corporation acknowledges the following trademarks Intel is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation Sytos Plus is a registered trademark of Sytron Corporation MS DOS and Microsoft are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation Windows 95 Microsoft Windows and Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation SCO UnixWare and Unix are registered trademarks of the Santa Cruz Operation Inc Novell NetWare is a registered trademark of Novell Corporation IBM AT VGA PS 2 and OS 2 are registered trademarks and XT and CGA are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation MegaRAID is a registered trademark of LSI Logic Corporation NEC is a registered trademark of Nippon Electric Corporation Sony is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation Toshiba is a registered trademark of Toshi2. direct incidental or consequential resulting from the use of this product Please see the Warranty Registration Card shipped with this product for full warranty details Limitations of Liability LSI Logic shall in no event be held liable for any loss expenses or damages of any kind whatsoever whether direct indirect incidental or consequential whether arising from the design or use of this product or the support materials provided with the product No action or proceeding against LSI Logic may be commenced more than two years after the delivery of product to Licensee of Licensed Software Licensee agrees to defend and indemnify LSI Logic from any and all claims suits and liabilities including attorney s fees arising out of or resulting from any actual or alleged act or omission on the part of Licensee its authorized third parties employees or agents in connection with the distribution of Licensed Software to end users including without limitation claims suits and liability for bodily or other injuries to end users resulting from use of Licensee s product not caused solely by faults in Licensed Software as provided by LSI Logic to Licensee Cont d iv MegaRAID IDE Linux Installation User s Guide Preface Continued Package Contents You should have received e aMegaRAID IDE RAID Adapter Card e aMegaRAID IDE User s Guide e software license agreement e CD diskette s with the MegaRAID IDE software e a warra
3. 2 i386 rpm Hyperconf Hyperconf is the monitoring software that is use to keep track of your RAID array It is installed when you install hyperconf 1 0 2 rpm using the RedHat Package Manager RPM This software allows you to monitor the status of you RAID array It will also allow you to set a number of variables that will determine the behavior of you RAID array Installing Hyperconf Hyperconf is simple to install Go to the directory where the RPM file HYPERCONF 1 0 2 RPM is located At the command prompt type the following rpm I hyperconf 1 0 2 rpm This will install the software The following files are installed on your system File Location Description HYPERCONF8 RZ USR MAN8 Man Page for Hyperconf README USR DOC HYPERCOMF 1 0 2 README for Hyperconf HYPERCONF USR SBIN Executable for Hyperconf SPY RC D INIT D Batch file that loads SPYD Soft link is created to RC3 D to start the service in run level 3 SPYD USR SBIN Damon for Hyperconf 10 MegaRAID IDE Linux Installation User s Guide 3 Running Hyperconf To run MegaRAID IDE simply log on as super user and type the following at the command prompt Hyperconf Getting Help The easiest way to get help on Hyperconf is to access the Man Page This can be done by typing the following at the command prompt Man Hyperconf Working with MegaRAID IDE To activate the menu in Hyperconf press the lt F10 gt key on your
4. 3rd part 85 Linux extended eb BeOS fs e Win95 FAT16 LB 50 OnTrack DM 86 TFS volume set fl SpeedStor f Win95 Ext d LB 51 OnTrack DM6 Aux 87 TFS volume set 4 SpeedStor 10 OPUS 52 CP M 93 Amoeba f2 DOS secondary 11 Hidden FAT12 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux 94 Amoeba BBT fd Linux raid auto 12 Compaq diagnost 54 OnTrackDM6 aQ IBM Thinkpad hi fe LANstep 14 Hidden FAT16 lt 3 55 EZ Drive a5 BSD 386 ff BBT 16 Hidden FAT16 56 Golden Bow Hex code type L to list codes 82 Changed system type of partition 2 to 82 Linux swap Command m for help p Disk dev amiraid ar0 16 heads 63 sectors 19589 cylinders Units cylinders of 1008 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System dev amiraid ar0pl 1 4064 2048224 83 Linux dev amiraid ar0p2 4065 4572 256032 82 Linux swap dev amiraid ar0p3 4573 5080 256032 83 Linux 11 The final command that we will use is lt w gt and that will write the partition table Command m for help w 12 Press lt CTRL gt lt ALT gt lt F7 gt to return to the installation window Proceed to load RedHat Stop when it gives you the option to partition your drive manually or automatically The window will prompt you with the following options e Remove data e Manually Partition Select to manually partition your drive Click Next and the Disk Druid window will appear showing all the partitions in your array If you created a RAID 1 array spanning across two drives with three partitions you will see a total of six partitions
5. dev amiraid ar0pl 1 19589 9872824 83 Linux Command m for help d Partition number 1 4 1 Command m for help p Disk dev amiraid ar0 16 heads 63 sectors 19589 cylinders Units cylinders of 1008 512 bytes Device Boot start End Blocks Id System Command m for help 9 Create three 3 new partitions on the array Two will be native Linux partitions One of the two will be greater than 750 MB and will be used to hold the system files The other will be less than 250 MB and will be used to hold the boot files The third partition will be a SWAP partition and will be less than 250 MB To create a partition use the lt n gt command In the example given below it shows the use of the lt n gt command to create three primary partitions One 2000 MB and two 250 MB in size Command m for help n Command action e extended p primary partition 1 4 Pp Partition number 1 4 1 First cylinder 1 19589 default 1 Using default value 1 Last cylinder or size or sizeM or sizeK 1 19589 default 19589 2000M Command m for help n Command action e extended p primary partition 1 4 Pp Partition number 1 4 2 First cylinder 4065 19589 default 4065 Using default value 4065 Last cylinder or size or sizeM or sizeK 4065 19589 default 19589 250M Command m for help n Command action e extended p primary partition 1 4 P Partition number 1 4 3 First cylinder 4573 19589 default 4573 Using default val
6. even though you only created three using FDISK The reason for this is because a RAID 1 array exists when you mirror the information on one drive to another Since you have created a partition in a RAID 1 array what you actually did is create a partition on each of the drives Cont d 8 MegaRAID IDE Linux Installation User s Guide Step 3 Installing RedHat Continued Boot Disk Creation Insert a blank formatted diskette into your floppy drive and click Next to continue Hide Help Online Help Bootdisk Creation B Please remove the install floppy if used and insert a blank floppy in the first floppy drive All data on this disk will be erased during creation of the boot disk _1 Skip boot disk creation lt q Back gt Next Steps Description 13 j a a Partitions Mount Point Device Requested Actual Type Partitions boot A 300M 3669M Linux native E hdes 125M 125M Linux native Where do you want to lt Swap gt hda 125M 125M Linux swap install Red Hat Linux hdg1 300M 3669M Linux native hdg5 125M 125M Linux native Please note If you are hdg6 125M 125M Linux swap performing a Partitionless Installation you will need to define an existing DOS Windows partition Edit Delete Reset Make RAID Device as root shown as Click ES RER on the FAT partition you want selector is installation Once itis high
7. keyboard Note RAID Options Hyperconf cannot be navigated using the mouse You cannot create or delete a RAID array using Hyperconf This can only be done in the BIOS utility during boot up However there are a number of options that you can set to determine the behavior of you RAID array For example if one of your drives in a Mirror RAID array fails you can choose the action that will take place File Menu Select Options This will show you the options that are available and their current status Option Error Polling Interval sec Description The length of time that can elapse between each status check of the RAID array Error Threshold Enter a value for the number of compare errors a drive can have before it is marked as having failed When Error Threshold Is Reached Fail Drive Check this box if you want a drive to be marked as having failed when it has reached the error threshold 1 Start Automatic rebuilding Start to rebuild a drive automatically if a drive fails Check Array for Rebuild at Start up I Check the status of the array at start up to see if a drive has failed and a Rebuild is required When Rebuilding error threshold is reached stop rebuilding Check this box if you wish to stop rebuilding if the error threshold has been surpassed When consistency error found Make the contents of all drives identical A consistency check will examine both drives in
8. the following command vi etc lilo conf and add the following lines to the file image boot 2 2 16 label 2 2 16 read only root dev hda5 Chapter 4 Installing MegaRAID IDE on an Existing Installation 13 How to Upgrade the Kernel Continued The line root dev nda5 will not be correct if you are booting from a different partition Look for a previous entry in the file for the correct partition root dev hda Exit and save lilo conf Run the command lilo v Reboot At the boot prompt hit the tab key This should give you the option to boot to the new kernel 14 MegaRAID IDE Linux Installation User s Guide Installing MegaRAID IDE Driver Note Download the zipped driver file for RedHat 6 1 and 6 2 from the LSI Logic web site http www lsilogic com It contains the following files e Amiraid o e MAKEDEV Create a directory called usr src linux drivers block amiraid and copy the above files to it Run the following command MAKEDEV To load Hyperconf driver run the command insmod amiraid o To unload the driver run the command rmmod amiraid The driver will not load unless you have created a RAID Installing the Monitoring software Note The monitoring software is contained in the zipped driver you download in the last section Install the monitoring software using the command rpm I hyperconf 1 0 x 1386 rpm Substitute x for the version number For instructions on how
9. Diskettes are created on this second system Chapter 2 Installing RedHat On MegaRAID 3 Step 2 Create Installation Diskettes Continued Windows 95 98 Continued 4 Steps 1 Description Go to the directory were the files are located DIR lt enter gt The following is an example of what will appear Volume in drive C has no label Volume Serial Number is XXXX XXXX Directory of C LINUX_BOOT lt DIR gt 10 11 00 a lt DIR gt 10 11 00 boot img 1 474 560 10 05 00 post img 1 474 560 10 05 00 postsmp img RAWRITE 14 305 07 28 96 4 file s 2 966 128 bytes 2 dir s 9 929 000 bytes free C LINUX_BOOT The files listed should be as follows Boot img Post img Postsmp img Rawrite exe Once you have confirmed the files are in the same directory type the following command followed by lt enter gt to create the two installation diskettes RAWRITE lt enter gt You will then be prompted to enter the name of the boot image file Type BOOT IMG lt enter gt Next you will be prompted for the target disk drive Insert a floppy disk into the floppy disk drive and type A lt enter gt Do not remove the disk until the command prompt returns and the floppy disk drive light goes out MegaRAID IDE Linux Installation User s Guide Cont d Step 2 Create Installation Diskettes Continued Windows 95 98 Continued Linux Steps Description 3 After you have suc
10. IDE drive s e Install the monitoring software How to Upgrade the Kernel The standard Redhat installation installs kernel 2 2 14 5 Redhat Linux kernel 2 2 14 5 0 does not come with support for the CMD chip on the MegaRAID IDE Card The kernel must be updated to kernel 2 2 16 22 MegalDE This kernel is only available on the LSI Logic web site at http www lsilogic com To upgrade the kernel follow the steps below Step 1 Log on to your system as a super user and go to the usr src directory Find a soft link called Linux and remove it by using rm Linux Once the soft link is removed copy the 2 2 16 MegalDE kernel to this directory Extract the file using tar zxvf linux 2 2 16 MegalDE te7 Create a softlink to this directory with the command In s linux 2 2 16 MegalDE linux Step 2 In the directory usr src linux run the command make menuconfig Under block devices make sure the following options are selected lt gt CMD640 chipset bugfix support lt gt CMD640 enhanced support lt gt Generic PCI bus master DMA support lt gt CMD64X chipset support Exit menuconfig saving the configuration Run the following commands make clean make depend make bzImage make modules make modules_install cp usr src linux arch i386 boot bzImage boot 2 2 16 MegaIDE Step 3 The final steps involves editing the file lilo conf This file can be found in the directory letc Open the file using the vi editor with
11. RAID 1 to ensure that the information on both drives are identical If they are not identical checking this box will synchronize the information on both drives Delete activity log file Check this box to delete the activity log file Activity log file size KB Enter a value for the maximum size in KB the activity log file can grow Chapter 3 Running Hyperconf 11 Information To obtain information about your system press the lt F10 gt and lt Tab gt keys to access Information Item Description Controller Here you will find information concerning the controller The fields areas follows e Model This is model of the MegaRAID IDE controller that you have in your system e PCI BUS The BUS number e PCI number The PCI number e Driver Version The version of the driver software e Primary Base Address The Primary Base Address e Primary Control Address The Primary Control Address e Secondary Base Address The Secondary Base Address e Secondary Control Address The Secondary Control Address e IRQ Level The IRQ that is assigned to your device Array Here you will find information concerning the Array The fields areas follows e Model The RAID level e Status The status of the RAID Online Degraded or FAIDED e Stripe size The stripe size on the RAID e Capacity The capacity of the RAID e Mount Point The directory where the RAID is mounted e Controller The controller that the RAID belon
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13. ba America Corporation Archive and Python are registered trademarks of Archive Corporation Quantum is a registered trademark of Quantum Corporation Seagate is a registered trademark of Seagate Corporation SyQuest is a trademark of SyQuest Corporation Panasonic is a registered trademark of Panasonic Corporation Hewlett Packard is a registered trademark of Hewlett Packard Corporation Amphenol is a trademark of Amphenol Corporation Siemens is a registered trademark of Siemens Corporation Oki is a trademark of Oki Products International Hitachi is a registered trademark of Hitachi Corporation AMP is a trademark of AMP Corporation Fujitsu is a registered trademark of Fujitsu Corporation MaxOptix is a registered trademark of MaxOptic Corporation Wangtek is a trademark of Wangtek Corporation Revision History 11 1 00 Initial Linux Installation Documentation 12 13 00 Changed name of product from HyperDisk to MegaRAID IDE ii MegaRAID IDE Linux Installation User s Guide Table of Contents 1 OVEIVIEW ne ones een mere ain 1 2 Installing RedHat on MegaRAID IDE ccseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 3 Step 1 Download the Required Files ss 3 Step 2 Create Installation Diskettes ss 3 Step 3 Installing RedHat 22h nnn we neh Re ni ened ah Rennes 6 Step 4 Installing the Monitoring Software 10 3 RUNNING Hyperconf ssssssnneeenennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nnmnnn 11 Working with MegaRAID IDE e
14. blems with 1 software that runs at boot time e g LILO 2 booting and partitioning software from other OSs e g DOS FDISK OS 2 FDISK Command m for help Type lt m gt and hit lt enter gt for a list of commands This will return the following screen Command action toggle a bootable flag edit bsd disklabel toggle the dos compatibility flag delete a partition list known partition types print this menu add a new partition create a new empty DOS partition table print the partition table quit without saving changes create a new empty Sun disklabel change a partition s system id change display entry units verify the partition table write table to disk and exit extra functionality experts only xXxeEqgCsetugvoossradcdaow Command m for help 6 Cont d MegaRAID IDE Linux Installation User s Guide Step 3 Installing RedHat Continued Steps Description 8 Select the lt p gt command to see if any partitions exist in the array If any partitions exit you must delete them and create three new partitions The example below shows the lt p gt command to see the partition s in the RAID and the lt d gt command to delete the previous partition s To confirm that no partitions exist use the lt p gt command again Command m for help p Disk dev amiraid ar0 16 heads 63 sectors 19589 cylinders Units cylinders of 1008 512 bytes Device Boot start End Blocks Id System
15. cessfully created the first diskette insert the second disk You can now start to create the post installation disk Type the same command again followed by lt enter gt to create the second installation diskette RAWRITE lt enter gt You will again be prompted to enter the name of the boot image file This time type post IMG lt enter gt Next you will be prompted for the target disk drive Insert a floppy disk into the floppy disk drive and type A lt enter gt Once again do not remove the disk until the command prompt returns and the floppy disk drive light goes out If you have a dual processor system use postsmp img instead of post img 4 Congratulations You should now have two floppies Windows 95 98 can no longer access these floppies Proceed to Step 3 Installing RedHat Steps Description 1 Create the boot floppy using the following command dd if dev fd0 of boot img root localhost install dd if dev fd0 of boot img 2880 0 records in 2880 0 records out root localhost install 2 Create the Post Installation floppy using the following command dd if dev fd0 of post img root localhost install dd if dev fd0 of Oct5 amiboot img 2880 0 records in 2880 0 records out root localhost install 3 Congratulations You should now have two floppies Proceed to Step 3 Installing RedHat Chapter 2 Installing RedHat On MegaRAID 5 Step 3 Installing RedHat Steps 1 Description Create a RAID array us
16. erference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions may cause harmful interference to radio communications However there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a specific installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures 1 Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna 2 Increase the separation between the equipment and the receiver 3 Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected 4 Consult the dealer or an experienced radio TV technician for help Shielded interface cables must be used with this product to ensure compliance with the Class B FCC limits LSI Logic MegaRAID IDE PCI IDE RAID Disk Array Controller Model Number Series 795 FCC ID Number viii MegaRAID IDE Linux Installation User s Guide 1 Overview The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install RedHat 6 1 or 6 2 on IDE drives attached to the LSI Logic IDE RAID Controller known as MegaRAID IDE This document caters to all levels of Linux users This includes beginning to advanced Linux users For this reason advanced users will find parts of this document elementa
17. gs to e Physical Drives The drives that are in the RAID Physical Drives Here you will find information concerning the Physical Drives The fields areas follows e Model The manufacture model of the drive e Serial Number The Serial number of the drive e Firmware Revision The Version of the firmware that is on the drive e Status The status of the drive It will read online or offline depending on whether on not the drive is available e Error Count The total number of compare errors on the drive e Controller The controller that the drive is attached to e Array The array to which the drive belongs e Capacity The capacity of the drive in gigabytes e Transfer Mode The transfer mode of the drive e g UDMA 2 33Mb s Error Log Log the RAID errors Activity Log Logs activity on the RAID such as the RAID going degraded Mirror Mirror options include the following e Rebuild Allows the user to start a manual rebuild if a RAID has gone degraded e Consistency Check Allows for a manual start of a consistency check e Activity status Log the status of a rebuild or consistency Check 12 MegaRAID IDE Linux Installation User s Guide 4 Installing MegaRAID IDE on an Existing Installation Installing MegaRAID IDE on an Existing Installation If you have RedHat installed on your system and want to add additional storage these are the steps that you should follow e Upgrade the Linux Kernel to provide support for MegaRAID IDE e Install MegaRAID
18. inen 11 RAID Oblonss firme etienne nt nee et Kia e a aani 11 Informations deducts Aetie Ph oa BDA ALL ah ad Shed MA IR AE RER 12 4 Installing MegaRAID IDE on an Existing Installation 13 Installing MegaRAID IDE on an Existing Installation 13 How to Upsrade the Kemel ys rss pe s rie des tte a 21 Installing MegaRAID IDE Driver sise 13 Installing the Monitoring software 15 5 Trouble SHOOTING aiennseacseassnedsenstienssuaddeadsueisunntontsunngunsdeausunteuassundiuns 17 Common Problems site ne satire Lena ese thet sto rit 17 Preface iii Preface The MegaRAID IDE PCI Bus Master IDE RAID Disk Array Controller provides a cost effective way to achieve higher transfer rates and reliability LSI Logic s MegaRAID IDE controller supports two IDE channels and up to four drives It supports the following drive modes PIO 0 4 DMA 0 2 and Ultra DMA 0 4 The RAID levels supported are RAID 0 and RAID 1 The highest data transfer rate in UDMA mode 4 is 66 MBs and in UDMA mode 5 is 100 MBs This manual describes the MegaRAID IDE ATA 66 and MegaRAID IDE 100 ATA 100 IDE controller Limited Warranty The buyer agrees if this product proves to be defective that LSI Logic is obligated only to repair or replace this product at LSI Logic s discretion according to the terms and conditions of the warranty registration card that accompanies this product LSI Logic shall not be liable in tort or contract for any loss or damage
19. ing the MegaRAID IDE BIOS 2 Remove all hard disk drives from your system not physically attached to MegaRAID IDE 3 In your system BIOS change the boot sequence in such a way that the first boot device is the floppy and the second boot device is the SCSI device Boot your system using the boot floppy and the RedHat CD disc in your CD ROM drive Note The boot floppy is the first disk you created using the AMIBOOT IMG image Make sure you are booting from the floppy Check the light on the floppy drive is on during boot up Do not interrupt the boot process until you reach the first part of the installation the language selection screen If you cannot use the mouse do not continue with these instructions but proceed to section Installing the Operating System in TEXT mode At the first screen which prompts you to select your language preference do not click Next but instead press the lt CTRL gt lt ALT gt lt F2 gt keys at the same time This will bring you to a shell prompt bash Note This is the only way to partition the array It cannot be done later in the installation At the shell prompt bash use FDISK to partition the drive Type the following command to partition the array Bash fdisk dev mr0 This will prompt you with the following screen The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 19589 There is nothing wrong with that but this is larger than 1024 and could in certain setups cause pro
20. lighted click Zdir to assign it the mount point off root Click 0 amp when you re done Once you have confirmed this choice you will need to FAR i Hide Help lt Back gt Next Click on Edit and assign mount points to the first three partitions Continue with the normal installation until you come to the boot disk creation screen 14 Press lt CTRL gt lt ALT gt lt F2 gt when you reach the following boot disk creation screen Cont d Chapter 2 Installing RedHat On MegaRAID 9 Step 3 Installing RedHat Continued Steps Description 15 At the prompt type Bash runpinst You will then be prompted to enter the AMIPINST floppy Insert this floppy and hit the lt enter gt key 16 When the prompt returns and the floppy drive light turns off press lt CTRL gt lt ALT gt lt F7 gt to return to the installation window Note Do not create a boot floppy It is not supported by MegaRAID IDE at this time Click Next then Exit and Reboot Remove the floppy and the RedHat CD while your system is rebooting When your system boots up log in as root Step 4 Installing the Monitoring Software The final step is to install the two RedHat Package Manager RPM files Thy are as follows e Hyperconf 1 0 2 1386 rpm e Kernel 2 2 16 3 1386 rpm Go to the directory were these files are located and install them using the following command rpm I Kernel 2 2 16 3 1386 rpm rpm I Hyperconf 1 0
21. nty registration card Technical Support If you need help installing configuring or running the MegaRAID IDE Controller call LSI Logic technical support at 770 246 8600 Before you call please complete the MegaRAID IDE Problem Report form on the next page Web Site We invite you to access the LSI Logic world wide web site at http www lsilogic com Preface v MegaRAID IDE Problem Report Form Customer Information MegaRAID IDE Information Description of problem Name Today s Date Company Date of Purchase Address Invoice Number City State Serial Number Country Number of Channels email address Cache Memory Phone Firmware Version Fax BIOS Version System Information Motherboard BIOS manufacturer Operating System BIOS Date Op Sys Ver Video Adapter MegaRAID IDE CPU Type Speed Driver Ver Network Card System Memory Other disk controllers Other adapter cards installed installed Steps necessary to re create problem 1 2 3 4 MegaRAID IDE Configuration MegaRAID IDE Primary Master MegaRAID IDE Primary Slave MegaRAID IDE Secondary Master MegaRAID IDE Secondary Slave Raid Mode Stripe Size Array 0 Configuration Array 1 Configuration vi MegaRAID IDE Linux Installation User s Guide Preface Continued Disclaimer This manual describes the operation of the LSI Logic Mega
22. ry Chapter 1 Overview 1 2 MegaRAID IDE Linux Installation User s Guide 2 installing RedHat on MegaRAID IDE The following steps are required to successfully install the RedHat based Linux Operating System on MegaRAID IDE Step Description 1 Download the required files 2 Create installation diskettes two 3 Installing RedHat 4 Installing the monitoring software Step 1 Download the Required Files Download the required files from the LSI Logic web site located at http www lsilogic com The files are listed below File Description HYPERCONF 1 0 3 1386 RPM This file is a RedHat Package Manager RPM file It contains the MegaRAID IDE Monitoring software RPM files are discussed in depth in Chapter 4 Boot img These files are used to create the boot floppies used for Post img the installation They are the following Postsmp img KERNEL 2 2 16 22 1686 RPM This file is a RedHat Package Manager RPM file It contains modules required to complete the installation of the Operating System Note New versions of the above files will be made available The new files will have the same basic name For example HYPERCONF 1 0 2 1386 RPM will be replaced by HYPERCONF 1 0 4 1386 RPM Step 2 Create Installation Diskettes Step 2 requires a second system with either Microsoft Windows 95 98 or a UNIX based Operating System and two formatted floppy diskettes The required Installation
23. to use the monitoring software see Chapter 3 Running Hyperconf Chapter 4 Installing MegaRAID IDE on an Existing Installation 15 16 MegaRAID IDE Linux Installation User s Guide 5 Trouble Shooting Common Problems Problem Possible Solution s Hyperconf does not show any Make sure you have created a RAID Hyperconf cannot report on what information does not exist I have saved my options in Check to make sure the daemon spyd is running You can do this but Hyperconf but it does not do entering the following command pidof spyd The number of the what I ask of it process should be return If no number is returned the spyd is not running Spyd can be started by entering the command spyd Spyd is only started at boot time for run level 3 When I load the driver amiraid o I Force the driver to load using the command insmod f amiraid o get an error that the driver was not compiled for this kernel Chapter 5 Troubleshooting 17 18 MegaRAID IDE Linux Installation User s Guide
24. uct s and or the program s described in this publication at any time Requests for technical information about LSI Logic products should be made to your LSI Logic authorized reseller or marketing representative Disclaimer LSI Logic certifies only that this product will work correctly when this product is used with the same jumper settings the same system configuration the same memory module parts and the same peripherals that were tested by LSI Logic with this product The complete list of tested jumper settings system configurations peripheral devices and memory modules are documented in the LSI Logic Compatibility Report for this product Call your LSI Logic sales representative for a copy of the Compatibility Report for this product Preface vii FCC Regulatory Statement 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 Warning Changes or modifications to this unit not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user s authority to operate the equipment Note 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 int
25. ue 4573 Last cylinder or size or sizeM or sizeK 4573 19589 default 19589 250M Cont d Chapter 2 Installing RedHat On MegaRAID 7 Step 3 Installing RedHat Continued Steps Description Command m for help p Disk dev amiraid ar0 16 heads 63 sectors 19589 cylinders Units cylinders of 1008 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System dev amiraid ar0pl T 4064 2048224 83 Linux dev amiraid ar0p2 4065 4572 256032 83 Linux dev amiraid ar0p3 4573 5080 256032 83 Linux 10 You should now have three partitions You must convert one of these partitions to a SWAP partition To do this use the lt t gt command Command m for help t Partition number 1 4 2 Hex code type L to list codes 1 0 Empty 17 Hidden HPFS NTF 5c Priam Edisk a6 OpenBSD 1 FATI2 18 AST Windows swa 61 SpeedStor al eXTSTEP 2 XENIX root 1b Hidden Win95 FA 63 GNU HURD or Sys b7 BSDI fs 3 XENIX usr lc Hidden Win95 FA 64 ovell Netware b8 BSDI swap 4 FAT16 lt 32M le Hidden Win95 FA 65 ovell Netware cl DRDOS sec FAT 5 Extended 24 NEC DOS 70 DiskSecure Mult c4 DRDOS sec FAT 6 FAT16 3c PartitionMagic 75 PC IX c6 DRDOS sec FAT 7 HPFS NTFS 40 Venix 80286 80 Old Minix c7 Syrinx 8 AIX 41 PPC PReP Boot 81 inix old Lin db CP M CTOS 9 AIX bootable 42 SFS 82 Linux swap el DOS access a OS 2 Boot Manag 4d QNX4 x 83 Linux e3 DOS R O b Win95 FAT32 4e QNX4 x 2nd part 84 OS 2 hidden C e4 SpeedStor c Win95 FAT32 LB 4f QNX4 x
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