Step 1 Obtain And Install The Driver Module; Step 2 Configure System To Mount Volumes When Startup; Monitoring The Driver; Installing Raid Management Software - HighPoint RocketRAID 37 Series Installation Manual

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Step 1 Obtain and install the Driver Module

Extract the driver archive to a temporary directory and execute the install.sh to install the
driver to the system. For example:
# mkdir /tmp/dd
# tar xzvf RR3740A_UOS20_Server_1050d_aarch64_vx.x.x_xx_xx_xx.tar.gz
-C /tmp/dd
# cd /tmp/dd
# sh install.sh
If the driver of previous version has been in the initrd image, the installer will update the
initrd image or it will make the driver automatically loaded while system up.

Step 2 Configure System to Mount Volumes when Startup

Now you can inform the system to automatically mount the array by modifying the file
/etc/fstab. E.g. you can add the following line to tell the system to mount /dev/sda1 to
location /mnt/raid after startup:

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/rr3740a/. Through this file you can view driver
status and send control commands to the driver.
Note
The file name is the SCSI host number allocated by OS. If you have no other SCSI cards
installed, it will be 0. In the following sections, we will use x to represent this number.
Using the following command to show driver status:
# cat /proc/scsi/rr3740a/x
This command will show the driver version number, physical device list and logical device
list.

5 Installing RAID Management Software

HighPoint RAID Management Software is used to configure and keep track of your hard
disks and RAID arrays attached to RR3740A controller. Installation of the management
software is optional but recommended.
Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents for more information.

6 Rebuilding Driver Module for System Update

When the system updates the kernel packages, the driver module rr3740a.ko should be
built and installed manually before reboot.
/dev/sda1
/mnt/raid
ext3
defaults
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