HighPoint RocketRAID 2340 User Manual

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Linux Driver Support

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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”.

The system will now load the RocketRAID 2340 driver automatically.

2 - Installing the RocketRAID 2340 driver for an Existing System

Note: If a SCSI adapter is used to boot the system, make sure the RocketRAID 2340
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/rr2340.ko).

After extracting the driver module, load it using the following commands:

# modprobe sd_mod

# cd /tmp/‘uname –r‘

# insmod rr2340.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”.