Setting Up The Revodrive 350 In Linux; Managing The Linux Device Driver And Firmware - OCZ RevoDrive 350 User Manual

Setting up the RevoDrive 350 in Linux

In Linux, you can do the following:
Installation as a boot device in
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Installation as a storage device in Linux
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Before you start, you must ensure you have the necessary driver: see
driver.
Managing the Linux device driver
To use the RevoDrive 350 correctly you need the RevoDrive 350 driver. The driver is supplied on CD
when you purchase the RevoDrive 350, or to obtain the latest version of the RevoDrive 350 driver:
1 Go to http://ocz.com/consumer/download/drivers.
2 Select RevoDrive 350 from the list of products.
3 Find the operating system that is running on your system and download the appropriate driver.
4 Unzip the required driver onto a CD or a USB flash drive.
Install the driver in Linux
When installing the RevoDrive 350 as a boot device, you install the driver as part of the setting-up
process; see Install the driver and set the RevoDrive 350 as a boot device on page
When installing the RevoDrive 350 as a storage device, you can install it manually as described
below.
1 Copy the appropriate driver package file for your distribution to a local drive on your system.
2 Enter one of the following commands, where filename is the name of the package file that you
copied:
to install an rpm file: sudo rpm –U filename.rpm
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to install a deb file: sudo dpkg –i filename.deb
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3 If you installed the RevoDrive 350 before installing the device driver, you may find that the standard mvsas
driver is loaded against the card. A symptom of having the mvsas driver loaded is being presented with
multiple SSDs of lower performance, rather than a single drive.
In this case, to start using the OCZ RevoDrive 350 driver after installing it, you must reboot the system or
manually rebind the driver.
ISF-UserGuide-RV350, Revision 3
Linux; Fedora distributions only
Managing the Linux device
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