HighPoint RocketRAID 1740 - Manual (Page 43)

Linux Driver Support
3) When prompted “Do you have a driver disk?”, select “Yes”. At the “Insert your
driver disk and press OK to continue” prompt, insert the driver diskette in the floppy
drive and then select “OK”.
4) The system will now load the RocketRAID 174x driver automatically.
3 - Installing the RocketRAID 174x driver for an Exist-
ing System
Note: If a SCSI adapter is used to boot the system, make sure the RocketRAID 174x
controller BIOS loads/posts after the SCSI adapter’s BIOS. It may be necessary to
move the adapter(s) to another PCI slot.
Step 1 Obtain the Driver Module
Extract the module file from the file modules.cgz (from the driver disk) using the
following commands:
# mount /dev/fd0
# cd /tmp
# gzip -dc /media/floppy/modules.cgz | cpio -idumv
Driver modules for all supported kernel versions will be extracted. The driver module
for the active kernel is located under the directory that matches the kernel version (/
tmp/‘uname –r‘/i686/rr174x.ko).
After extracting the driver module, load it using the following commands:
# modprobe sd_mod
# insmod rr174x.ko
Arrays attached to the adapter can be accessed as SCSI devices (e.g. /dev/sda).
Step 2 Mounting and Partitioning the Device
Example: A RAID array has been configured between several hard disks.
This array will be registered to the system as device “/dev/sda”.
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To create a partition on this array (which will listed as /dev/sda1), use the “fdisk /
dev/sda” command.
Next, use the “mkfs /dev/sda1” command to setup a file system on this partition.