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- Page 1 RocketRAID 174x FreeBSD Installation Guide RocketRAID 174x SATA Controller FreeBSD Installation Guide Version 1.01 Copyright © 2006 HighPoint Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Last updated on Nov 10, 2006...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
RocketRAID 174x FreeBSD Installation Guide Table of Contents 1 Overview ............................1 2 Installing FreeBSD on RocketRAID 174x Controller...............1 Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation................1 Step 2 Check System BIOS Settings..................1 Step 3 Prepare the Driver Diskette....................1 Step 4 Install FreeBSD......................2 3 Installing RR174x Driver on an Existing System ..............3... -
Page 3: Overview
RocketRAID 174x Controller on a FreeBSD system. 2 Installing FreeBSD on RocketRAID 174x Controller If you would like to install FreeBSD onto drives attached to RocketRAID 174x controller, please perform the following operations: Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation After you attach your hard disks to RR174x controller, you can use RR174x BIOS Setting Utility to configure your hard disks as RAID arrays, or just use them as single disks. -
Page 4: Step 4 Install Freebsd
Rocket RAID 174x FreeBSD Installation Guide Step 4 Install FreeBSD Start installing the FreeBSD by booting from installation CD. If you are installing FreeBSD 5.0 or earlier versions, skip this step. When “Welcome to FreeBSD” screen appears, select “6”. When “Hit [enter] to boot immediately or any other key for command prompt” screen appears, press SPACE key to stop loader from autobooting. -
Page 5: Installing Rr174X Driver On An Existing System
Rocket RAID 174x FreeBSD Installation Guide ok load disk0:rr174x-5.2.1.ko for FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE ok load disk0:rr174x-5.3.ko for FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE ok load disk0:rr174x-5.4.ko for FreeBSD 5.3-AMD64-RELEASE ok load disk0:rr174x-5.3-amd64.ko for FreeBSD 5.4-AMD64-RELEASE ok load disk0:rr174x-5.4-amd64.ko for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE ok load disk0:rr174x-6.0.ko for FreeBSD 6.0-AMD64-RELEASE ok load disk0:rr174x-6.0-amd64.ko for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE ok load disk0:rr174x-6.1.ko... -
Page 6: Step 1 Copy The Driver Module
Rocket RAID 174x FreeBSD Installation Guide the RR174x Controller, you can perform the following steps. Step 1 Copy the Driver Module If you have made freebsd drivers into a diskette, you can insert the driver diskette to floppy drive, then using the following commands to copy the driver module: for FreeBSD 4.x: # mount –o ro /dev/fd0 /mnt # cp /mnt/rr174x-xxx.ko /modules/rr174x.ko... -
Page 7: Step 3 Configure System To Automatically Load The Driver
Rocket RAID 174x FreeBSD Installation Guide Booting [kernel] in 9 seconds… <-press SPACE key Type ’?’ for a list of commands, ’help’ for more detailed help. ok load rr174x /modules/rr174x.ko text=0xf571 data=0x2c8+0x254 ok autoboot If you have configured a RAID 1/0 using 4 disks, it will be registered to system as device /dev/da0. -
Page 8: Installing Raid Management Software
Rocket RAID 174x FreeBSD Installation Guide 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 RR174x controller. Installation of the management software is optional but recommended.