HighPoint RocketRAID 2224 - Manual (Page 51)

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Step 2 Test the Driver Module
Test the driver module to ensure that it works with the system, by loading it during bootup. If the module
has been loaded successfully you should see the RR2224 banner and a display screen of the attached drives.
You can now access the drives as a SCSI device.
Note: If you have no other SCSI device, the first device is /dev/da0, then /dev/da1, etc.).
Example: F1 FreeBSD
Default: F1
>> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader
boot:
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS driver A: is disk0
BIOS driver C: is disk2
BIOS 636kB/74512kB available memory
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
(mailto:[email protected], Sat Apr 21 08:46:19 GMT 2001)
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
/kernel text=0x24f1db data=0x3007ec+0x2062c -
<- For FreeBSD 5.1 and later: select “6” on “Welcome to FreeBSD” screen.
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [kernel] in 9 seconds…
<-press SPACE key
Type ’?’ for a list of commands, ’help’ for more detailed help.
ok load hptmv6
/modules/hptmv6.ko text=0xf571 data=0x2c8+0x254
ok autoboot
Note: If you have configured a RAID 10 using 4 disks, it will be registered to system as device /dev/da0.
You can use “/stand/sysinstall” to create partitions and disklabels (like da0s1e) on da0. Then, create a
new filesystem using “newfs /dev/da0s1e”. Now you can mount /dev/da0s1e to somewhere to access it
Step 3 Configure System to Automatically Load the Driver
To avoid typing in "load hptmv6" each time the operating system is booted, the system must be instructed to
automatically load the module during bootup. To configure the system to automatically install the module,
type in the following commands:
# echo ’hptmv6_load=”YES”’ >> /boot/defaults/loader.conf
This command will instruct the loader to load the RR2224 module together with the kernel. After using
this command, reboot the system. The RR2224 module should now automatically load each time the
operating system starts up.
Note: When using FreeBSD 4.x, type in the following command to configure the system:
# mknod /dev/hptmv6 c 200 0
Then, check to make sure the node “/dev/hptmv6 ” , is present in the /dev directory.
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