HighPoint RocketRAID 2210 - Manual (Page 66)

Linux Driver Support
For SUSE 10.x, please format the /boot partition using ext3 format (default is reiserfs).
Otherwise, the GRUB boot loader will overwrite the RAID information stored on
sector 9 and cause your RAID array to be broken.
3 - Installing the RocketRAID 2210 Driver on an Exist-
ing System
If you are currently running SUSE and would like to access drives or arrays attached
to the Rocket RAID 2210 controller, follow the steps outlined below:
Note:
1. If a SCSI adapter is used to boot the system, make sure the RocketRAID
2210 controller BIOS loads/posts after the SCSI adapter’s BIOS. It may be
necessary to move the adapter(s) to another PCI slot.
2. The driver may work incorrectly on certain motherboards (such as DFI77B
KT400). For these motherboards, add the “acpi=off” kernel parameter in the /
boot/grub/menu.lst:
kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 acpi=off
initrd (hd0,1)/initrd
Step 1 Install the Driver Module
Extract the module file from the file /linux/suse/[arch]-[version]/install/update.tar.gz
(from the driver disk) , using the following commands (example):
# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
# cd /
# tar xfz /mnt/floppy/linux/suse/i386-10.1/install/update.tar.gz
The driver modules will be extracted to the directory /lib/modules/[kernel-ver]/kernel/
drivers/scsi/ .
After you have extracted the driver module, you can load it by following commands:
# modprobe sd_mod
# insmod rr2210.ko
Then you can access the arrays attached to the controller as SCSI devices (e.g. /dev/
sda).
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