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HighPoint RocketRAID 2240 User Manual

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boot: linux dd

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 2240 driver automatically.

2 - Installing the RocketRAID 2240 driver for an Existing System

Note: If a SCSI adapter is used to boot the system, make sure the RocketRAID 2240

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 /mnt/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/hptmv6.ko).

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

# modprobe sd_mod

# cd /tmp/‘

uname –r‘

# insmod hptmv6.ko

Arrays attached to the adapter can be accessed as SCSI devices (e.g. /dev/sda).

Linux Driver Support

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