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- Page 1 HPT370/372/372A Red Hat Linux Installation Guide HPT370/372/372A ATA RAID Controller Red Hat Linux Installation Guide Version 1.3 Copyright © 2001 HighPoint Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Last updated on Dec 30, 2001...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Step 4 Prepare the Boot Diskette (Red Hat Linux 7.1/7.2 Only) ........2 Step 5 Install Red Hat Linux..................2 3 Installing HPT370/372/372A Driver on an Existing System ..........4 Step 1 Obtain the Driver Module................... 4 Step 2 Update the Kernel (Red Hat Linux 7.1/7.2 Only)........... 4 Step 3 Test the Driver Module .................. -
Page 3: Overview
The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use HPT37x ATA RAID controllers on Red Hat Linux system. The driver supports following the HighPoint ATA RAID controllers: HPT370 UDMA/ATA100 RAID Controller HPT372 UDMA/ATA133 RAID Controller... -
Page 4: Step 4 Prepare The Boot Diskette (Red Hat Linux 7.1/7.2 Only)
Step 4 Prepare the Boot Diskette (Red Hat Linux 7.1/7.2 Only) If you are installing Red Hat Linux 7.1/7.2 onto hard disk attached to HPT370 or HPT372 controller, you must boot from a customized boot diskette to start installation. There is no need of customized boot diskette for HPT372A controller. - Page 5 HPT37x controller. For Redhat 7.2, you may choose GRUB as system loader. 13) (HPT370/372 only) If you are installing Red Hat Linux 7.1/7.2 onto hard disk(s) attached to HPT370 or HPT372, when “ Installation Complete” dialog appears, an additional step must be taken to replace the installed kernel with our new kernel, which has HPT366 IDE support removed.
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Page 6: Installing Hpt370/372/372A Driver On An Existing System
/tmp/2.4.2-2/hpt37x2.o Red Hat Linux 7.1 driver /tmp/2.4.7-10/hpt37x2.o Red Hat Linux 7.2 driver Step 2 Update the Kernel (Red Hat Linux 7.1/7.2 Only) If you are about to use Red Hat Linux 7.1/7.2 system with HPT370 or HPT372 - 4 -... - Page 7 HPT370/372/372A Red Hat Linux Installation Guide controller, you must update the kernel to remove HPT366 IDE support from it first. There are two ways to do this. 1. Building a new kernel from kernel source To build a new kernel, you must have installed kernel source and related packages.
- Page 8 HPT370/372/372A Red Hat Linux Installation Guide a. Since current driver does not support SMP, you should disable SMP support by deselecting the option “ Processor type and features->Symmetric multi-processing support” . b. Enable kernel versioning option by selecting “ Loadable module support->Set version information on all module symbols”...
- Page 9 HPT370/372/372A Red Hat Linux Installation Guide If you do not want to build the kernel by yourself, you can simply use the kernel "vmlinuz.hpt37x2" on the driver diskette we provided. After you get the new kernel, you can install it using Grub or Lilo. Follow the steps below.
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Page 10: Step 3 Test The Driver Module
HPT370/372/372A Red Hat Linux Installation Guide root=/dev/hda5 Root file system, see below Note a) Your root file system may be not on /dev/hda5. Check the correct location and modify the line “ root=/dev/hda5” to match your system configuration. You can use the “... -
Page 11: Step 4 Configure System To Automatically Load The Driver
HPT370/372/372A Red Hat Linux Installation Guide Example You have configured a RAID 0/1 array using 4 disks. It will be registered to system as device /dev/sda. You can use “ fdisk /dev/sda” to create a partition on it, which will be /dev/sda1, and use “... -
Page 12: Step 5 Configure System To Mount Volumes When Startup
HPT370/372/372A Red Hat Linux Installation Guide should automatically load the HPT37x2 driver. 2. If you use a SCSI adapter to boot the system, you cannot do as above since this may conflict with other SCSI devices. However, you can add the driver to the existing RAM disk image. -
Page 13: Monitoring The Driver
HPT370/372/372A Red Hat Linux Installation Guide 4 Monitoring the Driver Once the driver is running, you can monitor it through the Linux proc file system support. There is a special file under /proc/scsi/hpt37x2/. Through this file you can view driver status and send control commands to the driver. -
Page 14: Rescanning Devices
5 Updating the Driver If you are not booting from disks attached to HPT37x controller, you can update the driver just by reinstalling it following the previous section, "Install HPT370/372/372A Driver on an Existing System". If you are using a system installed to HPT37x controller, you can update the driver by the following steps. -
Page 15: Installing Raid Management Software
5) Reboot your system to make the new driver take effect. 6 Installing RAID Management Software HighPoint RAID Management Software is used to configure and keep track of your hard disks and RAID arrays attached to HPT37x controller. Installation of the management software is optional but recommended. -
Page 16: Running The Management Software
“ hptraid&” . If you are using GNOME or KDE, you can also run it from the menu bar: On KDE, you can start it by choosing “ Menus (menu-bar)->Applications->HighPoint ATA RAID Management Software” .