HighPoint RocketRAID 174x Manuale utente

RocketRAID 174x FreeBSD Installation Guide

RocketRAID 174x SATA Controller

FreeBSDInstallationGuide

Version 1.01

Last updated on Nov 10, 2006

RocketRAID 174x FreeBSD Installation Guide

Table of Contents

1 Overview.......................................................................................................................................1

2 Installing FreeBSD on RocketRAID 174x Controller...............................................................1

Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation..........................................................................1

Step 2 Check System BIOS Settings.........................................................................................1

Step 3 Prepare the Driver Diskette............................................................................................1

Step 4 Install FreeBSD..............................................................................................................2

3 Installing RR174x Driver on an Existing System......................................................................3

Step 1 Copy the Driver Module ................................................................................................4

Step 2 Test the Driver Module ..................................................................................................4

Step 3 Configure System to Automatically Load the Driver.....................................................5

Step 4 Configure System to Mount Volumes when Startup......................................................5

4 Updating the Driver.....................................................................................................................5

5 Installing RAID Management Software.....................................................................................6

6 Uninstalling...................................................................................................................................6

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1 Overview

The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use

RocketRAID 174x Controller on a FreeBSD system.

2 Installing FreeBSD on RocketRAID 174x Controller

If you would like to install FreeBSD onto drives attached to RocketRAID 174x controller,

please perform the following operations:

Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation

After you attach your hard disks to RR174x controller, you can use RR174x 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 RR174x 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 the Driver Diskette

If you are installing FreeBSD, you must prepare a driver disk for RR174x 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 you

are installing FreeBSD 5.x versions:

#dd if=freebsd_5.x.img of=/dev/fd0

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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 “Welcome

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 disk1

BIOS driver C: is disk2

BIOS 636kB/74512kB available memory

FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8

(mailto:[email protected], 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…

<-press SPACE key

A prompted label "ok" will appear at the bottom of the screen.

4) Insert RR174x driver diskette into floppy drive now. Type in "load diskx:rr174x-x.x"

(without quotation mark) and then press enter.

for FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE

ok load kernel

ok load disk1:rr174x-4.3.ko

for FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE

ok load kernel

ok load disk1:rr174x-4.4.ko

for FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE

ok load disk1:rr174x-4.5.ko

for FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE

ok load disk1:rr174x-4.6.2.ko

for FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE

ok load disk1:rr174x-4.7.ko

for FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE

ok load disk1:rr174x-4.8.ko

for FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE

ok load disk1:rr174x-4.9.ko

for FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE

ok load disk1:rr174x-4.10.ko

for FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE

ok load disk1:rr174x-4.11.ko

for FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE

ok load disk0:rr174x-5.0.ko

for FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE

ok load disk0:rr174x-5.1.ko

for FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE

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ok load disk0:rr174x-5.2.1.ko

for FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE

ok load disk0:rr174x-5.3.ko

for FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

ok load disk0:rr174x-5.4.ko

for FreeBSD 5.3-AMD64-RELEASE

ok load disk0:rr174x-5.3-amd64.ko

for FreeBSD 5.4-AMD64-RELEASE

ok load disk0:rr174x-5.4-amd64.ko

for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE

ok load disk0:rr174x-6.0.ko

for FreeBSD 6.0-AMD64-RELEASE

ok load disk0:rr174x-6.0-amd64.ko

for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE

ok load disk0:rr174x-6.1.ko

for FreeBSD 6.1-AMD64-RELEASE

ok load disk0:rr174x-6.1-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 withACPI 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 RR174x 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 –o ro /dev/fd0 /mnt

# sh /mnt/postinstall

# umount /mnt

Then press Alt-F1 to return to the setup screen and choose [X Exit Install] to finish

setup.

Note: On some systems the 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 system boots up you can run the postinstall script

to install the driver.

3 Installing RR174x Driver on an Existing System

If you are currently running FreeBSD and would like to access drives or arrays attached to

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the RR174x 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/rr174x-xxx.ko /modules/rr174x.ko

# umount /mnt

for FreeBSD 5.x/6.x:

# mount –o ro /dev/fd0 /mnt

# cp /mnt/rr174x-xxx.ko /boot/kernel/rr174x.ko

# umount /mnt

You can also extract the files from .img files directly, without using a floppy diskette:

For FreeBSD 4.x:

# vnconfig vn0c freebsd_xxx.img

# mount /dev/vn0c /mnt

# cp /mnt/rr174x-xxx.ko /modules/rr174x.ko

# vnconfig –du vn0c myfilesystem mount=/mnt

For FreeBSD 5.x/6.x:

# mdconfig –a –t vnode –f freebsd_5.x.img –u 0

# mount /dev/md0 /mnt

# cp /mnt/rr174x-xxx.ko /boot/kernel/rr174x.ko

# umount /mnt

# mdconfig –d –u md0

Step 2 Test the Driver Module

You can test out the module to ensure that it works for your system by load it during

system booting.

If the module has been loaded successfully you should see the RR174x 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/da1, etc.).

Example

F1 FreeBSD

Default: F1

>> 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 disk0

BIOS driver C: is disk2

BIOS 636kB/74512kB available memory

FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8

(mailto:[email protected], Sat Apr 21 08:46:19 GMT 2001)

Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf

/kernel text=0x24f1db data=0x3007ec+0x2062c -

<- 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.

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Booting [kernel] in 9 seconds…

<-press SPACE key

Type ’?’ for a list of commands, ’help’ for more detailed help.

ok load rr174x

/modules/rr174x.ko text=0xf571 data=0x2c8+0x254

ok autoboot

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 partitions and disklabels (like

da0s1e) on da0. Then you can create new filesystem using “newfs /dev/da0s1e”. Now

you can mount /dev/da0s1e to somewhere to access it.

Step 3 Configure System toAutomatically Load the Driver

Most likely, you will not want to type “load rr174x” each time you boot up the system.

Therefore you must install the module and tell the system about it. To configure system

to automatically load the driver, type in the following commands:

# echo ’rr174x_load=”YES”’ >> /boot/defaults/loader.conf

This tells the loader to try loading the RR174x module together with the kernel.

Now, reboot the system. RR174x module should be automatically loaded each time

system start up.

Note

If FreeBSD you installed is 4.x version, you should type the following command to

configure your system:

# mknod /dev/rr174x c 200 0

Then, please check whether node“/dev/rr174x”exists in /dev directory.

Step 4 Configure System to Mount Volumes when Startup

Now you can inform the system to automatically mount the array by modifying the file

/etc/fstab. E.g. You can add the following line to tell the system to mount /dev/da1s1e to

location /mnt/hpt after startup:

/dev/da1s1e /mnt/hpt ufs rw 0 0

4 Updating the Driver

To update the driver with a new version you simply reinstall the driver following the previous

section, “Install the driver on an existing system”.

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5 Installing RAID Management Software

HighPoint RAID Management Software is used to configure and keep track of your hard

disks and RAID arrays attached to RR174x controller. Installation of the management

software is optional but recommended.

To configure HighPoint RAID Management Software to work with RR174x driver, you

should setup /etc/hptcfg to be the driver name:

# echo rr174x > /etc/hptcfg

Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents for more information.

6 Uninstalling

You can only uninstall the driver when your system is not booting from devices attached to

RR174x controller. Just remove the line

rr174x_load=”YES”

in /boot/defaults/loader.conf, and then delete the driver module /modules/rr174x.ko or

/boot/kernel/rr174x.ko .

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