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SSD7103 Linux Debian10.3.0 Installation Guide

HighPoint NVMe RAID Controller

SSD7103 Linux Debian 10.3.0

Installation Guide

Version 1.0

Last updated on April 3, 2020

SSD7103 Linux Debian10.3.0 Installation Guide 
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Table of Contents 
1 Overview.......................................................................................................................................1 
2 Installing Linux Debian on SSD7103 controller........................................................................1 
Step 1 PrepareYour Hardware for Installation .........................................................................1 
Step 2 Check System EFI Settings............................................................................................1 
Step 3 Flash UEFI Rom to SSD7103........................................................................................3 
Step 4 Create Array...................................................................................................................4 
Step 5 Prepare the Driver Diskette............................................................................................5 
Step 6 Install Linux Debian.......................................................................................................5 
3 Monitoring the Driver .................................................................................................................8 
4 Installing RAID Management Software.....................................................................................8 
5 Rebuilding Driver Module for System Update..........................................................................8 
 
 

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1 Overview

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

Debian on the SSD7103 controller.

For Debian-10.3.0 (kernel: 4.19.0-8-amd64)

Mirror link:

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-10.3.0-amd64-DVD-1

.iso

MD5: 2052d0bea07085b5552632859b7e8d85

2 Installing Linux Debian on SSD7103 controller

If you would like to install Linux Debian onto drives attached to SSD7103 controller,

please perform the following operations:

Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation

After you attach your NVMe SSD to SSD7103 controller, you can use SSD7103 EFI

Utility to configure your NVMe SSD as RAID arrays, or just use them as single disks.

Before installation, you must remove all the NVMe SSD, which are not physically

attached to SSD7103 controller, from your system.

Note

SSD7103 only support EFI boot. If you have other SCSI adapters installed, you must

make sure the SSD7103 controller EFI 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 EFI Settings

In your system EFI SETUP menu, change Boot Sequence in such a way that the system

will first boot from EFI CDROM, and then from SSD7103 RAID. Refer to your

motherboard EFI manual to see how to set boot sequence.

If your EFI settings do not support such a boot sequence, you can first set it to boot from

EFI CDROM.After you finish installation, set SSD7103 RAID as the first boot device to

boot up the system.

1. Set UEFI setting with SuperMicro X11DPi-NT motherboard as an example.

a. "Advanced->PCIe/PCI/PnP Configuration->CPUSlot PCI-E OPROM"

to "EFI".Suppose SSD7103 is connected to motherboard CPU1 Slot 2 PCI-E

X16,then you should set "CPU1 Slot 2 PCI-E X16 OPROM" to "EFI";

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b. Disable "Secure Boot", set "Attempt Secure Boot" to "Disabled".

2. Set UEFI setting withASUS PRIME X299 -DELUXE motherboard as an example:

a. Set "Boot from Storage Devices" to "UEFI driver first";

b. And "Boot Device Control" to "UEFI Only" or "UEFI and Legacy OPROM";

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c. Set "OS Type" to "Other OS".

Step 3 Flash UEFI Rom to SSD7103

a. Unzip SSD7103 UEFI package to root dir(/) of a USB flash driver,and insert the

USB flash drive to the motherboard;

b. Booting from the UEFI USB flash and enter the UEFI environment ;

c. Command with"SSD7103.nsh", flash UEFI rom to SSD7103 Controller and

reboot;

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Step 4 Create Array

a. Attach four NVMe SSD to SSD7103 Controller ;

Note

Make sure your USB flash partition format is NTFS or FAT32.

b. Boot, in the presence of the motherboard Log screen, there will be NVMe SSD

information：

c. Enter the motherboard’s Boot List and select start from UEFI USB flash:

d. Command "Arraycreate.efi”"to enter the Utility:

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e. Command "create RAID0 ".

Create RAID0 array with all disks and with maximum capacity.

f. Command "exit"；

g. For more command usages, refer toAppendix A.

Step 5 Prepare the Driver Diskette

Extract HighPoint_NVMe_Debian_10.3.0_x86_64_vx.x.x_xx_xx_xx.tar.gz to top(/)

directory of an USB flash drive. It will look like:

Step 6 Install Linux Debian

a. Please confirm the status of the network environment before performing the following

operations. In order to ensure normal installation, it is recommended to install the system

in an environment without a network.

b. Insert the USB flash drive to the target system.

c. Booting from Installation DVD disc (EFI mode).

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d. When the Installation screen appears, press ‘e’ to edit boot command line option.

On the edit command window, move the cursor to the end of line “linux

/install/vmlinuz... ”, and append "modprobe.blacklist=nvme" (double quotation mark are

not include).

Press "CTRL-x" or F10 to start the system.

e. After the second installation completes "Loading additional components"，

Then the screen shows that" [!!] Partition disks".

Press "ALT+F2"(Graphical install please press"CTRL+ALT+F2") to switch to the shell

on console 2, and the then execute following commands to copy the driver contents:.

# mkdir /hptdd ← Create mount point for USB flash drive

# mount /dev/sda1 /hptdd/ ← Mount the USB flash drive to /hptdd

#cp -a /hptdd/hptdd /tmp/ ← Copy driver installation file to system temporary

directory

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# umount /hptdd ← Unmount the USB flash drive

When the USB flash drive is unmounted, please unplug the USB flash drive from the

mainboard.And then execute following command to install driver to install the Linux

Debian.

# sh /tmp/hptdd/preinst.sh ← Load SSD7103 driver.

f. Then press "ALT+F1" (Graphical install please press"ALT+F5")to switch back to

installation screen and continue the installation as usual.

g. When the screen shows that" [!!] Partition disks"，select "<Go Back>".

h. Back to" [!] Debian installer main menu"，select the disc again.

i. When the screen shows that " [!!] Finish the installation",

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press "ALT+F2"(Graphical install please press"ALT+F5") to the shell and type the

following commands:

# sh /tmp/hptdd/postinst.sh ← Install SSD7103 driver.

A message will be displayed that the driver has been installed successfully.

j. Press "ALT+F1" to switch back to installation screen and finish the installation.

3 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/hptnvme /. 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.

Using the following command to show driver status:

# cat /proc/scsi/hptnvme /x

This command will show the driver version number, physical device list and logical device

list.

4 Installing RAID Management Software

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

disks and RAID arrays attached to SSD7103 controller. Installation of the management

software is optional but recommended.

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

5 Rebuilding Driver Module for System Update

When the system updates the kernel packages, the driver module hptnvme.ko should be

built and installed manually before reboot.

Please refer to the REAME file distributed with HighPoint SSD7103 open source package

on how to build and install the driver module.

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