Overview - HighPoint RocketRAID 4320 User Manual

Linux Driver Support

1 - Overview

The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and
use RocketRAID 4320 Controller on Fedora Linux system.
2 - Installing Fedora Linux on RR4320 controller
If you would like to install Fedora Linux onto drives attached to RR4320 controller,
please perform the following operations:
Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation
After you attach your hard disks to RR4320 controller, you can use RR4320 BIOS
Setting Utility to configure your hard disks as RAID arrays, or just use them as single
disks.
Before installation, you must remove all the disk drives, which are not physically
attached to RR4320 controller, from your system.
Note: If you have other SCSI adapters installed, you must make sure the RR4320
controller BIOS will be loaded firstly. If not, try to move it to another PCI slot.
Otherwise you may be unable to boot up your system.
Step 2 Check System BIOS Settings
In your system BIOS SETUP menu, change Boot Sequence in such a way that the
system will first boot from floppy or CDROM, and then from SCSI. Refer to your BIOS
manual to see how to set boot sequence.
If your BIOS settings do not support such a boot sequence, you can first set it to
boot from floppy or CDROM. After you finish installation, set SCSI as the first boot
device to boot up the system.
Step 3 Prepare the Driver Diskette
Driver is contained in a floppy diskette image file, you can get it from our web site for
free.
On a DOS or Windows system, you can make the Fedora driver diskette using
rewrite.exe. It can be found on the Fedora Linux CD (under /dosutils). Just run it under
a command window and follow its prompt. On a Linux system, you can use the "dd"
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