HighPoint SSD7505 Installation Manual

HighPoint SSD7505 Installation Manual

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SSD7505 Linux CentOS8.2 Installation Guide
HighPoint NVMe RAID Controller
SSD7505 Linux CentOS8.2
Installation Guide
Version 1.00
Copyright © 2020 HighPoint Technologies, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Last updated on November 6, 2020

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  • Page 1 SSD7505 Linux CentOS8.2 Installation Guide HighPoint NVMe RAID Controller SSD7505 Linux CentOS8.2 Installation Guide Version 1.00 Copyright © 2020 HighPoint Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Last updated on November 6, 2020...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    SSD7505 Linux CentOS8.2 Installation Guide Index 1 Overview ............................1 2 Installing Linux CentOS8.2 on SSD7505 controller ..............1 Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation ................. 1 Step 2 Check System EFI Settings .................... 1 Step 3 Flash UEFI Rom to SSD7505 ..................4 Step 4 Create Array ........................
  • Page 3: Overview

    SSD7505 only support EFI boot. If you have other SCSI adapters installed, you must make sure the SSD7505 controller EFI will be loaded firstly. If not, try to move it to another PCI slot. Otherwise you may be unable to boot up your system.
  • Page 4 SSD7505 Linux CentOS8.2 Installation Guide Set "Advanced->PCIe/PCI/PnP Configuration->CPUSlot PCI-E OPROM" to "EFI". If the SSD7505 has been connected to the motherboard CPU1Slot2 PCI-E X16, you should set "CPU1Slot2 PCI-E X16 OPROM" to "EFI"; Disable "Secure Boot", set " Secure Boot " to "Disabled"。...
  • Page 5 SSD7505 Linux CentOS8.2 Installation Guide And " Boot->CSM->Boot Device Control" to "UEFI Only" or "UEFI and Legacy OPROM"; Set " Boot->Secure Boot->OS Type" to "Other OS". 3. Set UEFI setting with GA-X570 AORUS MASTER motherboard as an example a. Set " Boot->CSM Support " to "Enabled";...
  • Page 6: Step 3 Flash Uefi Rom To Ssd7505

    SSD7505 Linux CentOS8.2 Installation Guide Step 3 Flash UEFI Rom to SSD7505 Unzip SSD7505 UEFI package to root dir (/) of a USB flash driver, and insert the USB flash drive to the motherboard; Booting from the UEFI USB flash and enter the UEFI environment;...
  • Page 7: Step 5 Prepare The Driver Diskette

    SSD7505 Linux CentOS8.2 Installation Guide Enter the motherboard’s Boot List and select start from UEFI USB flash: Command ”Arraycreate.efi” to enter the Utility: Command “create RAID0 ”. Create RAID0 array with all disks and with maximum capacity. Command “exit”; For more command usages, refer to Appendix A.
  • Page 8: Step 6 Install Linux Centos8.2

    SSD7505 Linux CentOS8.2 Installation Guide Step 6 Install Linux CentOS8.2 a. In sert the USB flash drive to the target system. b. Booting from Installation DVD disc (EFI mode). c. When the Installation screen appears: If you want to choose the default system installation, please select "Install CentOS Linux 8"...
  • Page 9 When the USB flash drive is unmounted, please unplug the USB flash drive from the mainboard. And then execute following command to install driver to install the Linux CentOS. #sh /tmp/hptdd/rhel-install-step1.sh ← Load SSD7505 driver. e. After the above steps are completed, the system will automatically return to the installation interface.
  • Page 10 # rm -rf /tmp/hptdd ← Delete the driver file in SSD7505. # exit ← Exit the top(/) directory of the SSD7505 system. h. Press Ctrl+ALT+F6 and Select "Reboot" to complete the installation。 Open source driver needs to be installed after system installation.
  • Page 11: Monitoring The Driver

    This command will show the driver version number, physical device list and logical device list. 4 Installing RAID Management Software HighPoint RAID Management Software is used to configure and keep track of your hard disks and RAID arrays attached to SSD7505 controller. Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents for more information.
  • Page 12 SSD7505 Linux CentOS8.2 Installation Guide # yum install elfutils-libelf-devel c. Linux open source driver link, open the following link to enter the "Software Download" page to download: https://highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series-ssd7505-overview.htm Run the .bin file to install the driver package. # sh hptnvme_g5_linux_src_vxx.x.x_xx_xx_xx.bin d.
  • Page 13 SSD7505 Linux CentOS8.2 Installation Guide c. The driver installation is complete. Reboot to enter the system where the new kernel is located. Appendix A Support command: help/info/quit/exit/create/delete. Ÿ Create Command Syntax Create Array Type (RAID0/RAID1/RAID10) Member Disk list (1/1,1/2|*)Capacity(100|*) Examples <<< create RAID0 <<< create RAID0 * <<< create RAID0 * * Create RAID0 array with all disks and with maximum capacity. <<< create RAID1 1/1, 1/3 10 Create RAID1 array with disk 1/1 and 1/3 and with 10GB capacity. <<< create RAID10 <<< create RAID10 * <<< create RAID10 * *...
  • Page 14 SSD7505 Linux CentOS8.2 Installation Guide Ÿ Info Command Syntax info Display physical device list and logical list Ÿ Exit Command Syntax Q/q/quit/exit Quit the application Ÿ Help Command Syntax H/h/help This is help message. - 12 -...

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