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HighPoint SSD7540 Installation Manual

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SSD7540 Linux CentOS7.8 Installation Guide
HighPoint NVMe RAID Controller
SSD7540 Linux CentOS7.8
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 SSD7540 Linux CentOS7.8 Installation Guide HighPoint NVMe RAID Controller SSD7540 Linux CentOS7.8 Installation Guide Version 1.00 Copyright © 2020 HighPoint Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Last updated on November 6, 2020...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    SSD7540 Linux CentOS7.8 Installation Guide Table of Contents 1 Overview ............................1 2 Installing Linux CentOS7.8 on SSD7540 controller ..............1 Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation ................. 1 Step 2 Check System EFI Settings .................... 1 Step 3 Flash UEFI Rom to SSD7540 ..................4 Step 4 Create Array ........................

  • Page 3: Overview

    SSD7540 only support EFI boot. If you have other SCSI adapters installed, you must make sure the SSD7540 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 SSD7540 Linux CentOS7.8 Installation Guide And ‘Advanced->PCIe/PCI/PnP Configuration->CPU Slot PCI-E OPROM’ to ‘EFI’. If the SSD7540 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 SSD7540 Linux CentOS7.8 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 Ssd7540

    SSD7540 Linux CentOS7.8 Installation Guide Step 3 Flash UEFI Rom to SSD7540 Unzip SSD7540 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 SSD7540 Linux CentOS7.8 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”； - 5 -...

  • Page 8: Step 5 Prepare The Driver Diskette

    SSD7540 Linux CentOS7.8 Installation Guide For more command usages, refer to Appendix A. Step 5 Prepare the Driver Diskette Extract HighPoint_NVMe_CentOS_7u8_x86_64_ vx.x.x_xx_xx_xx.tar.gz to top(/) directory of an USB flash drive. It will look like: Step 6 Install Linux CentOS7.8 a. In sert the USB flash drive to the target system.
  • Page 9 SSD7540 Linux CentOS7.8 Installation Guide Select drivers to install [ ]/media/DD-2/rpms/x86_64/kmod-redhat-hptnvme-v1.2.20.1-2020_10_15_el7.8.x8 6_64.rpm In this example, type 1 and press Enter [x]/media/DD-2/rpms/x86_64/kmod-redhat-hptnvme-v1.2.20.1-2020_10_15_el7.8.x 86_64.rpm In this example, type c and press Enter g. After the driver is installed, type c and press Enter to continue the system installation h.

  • Page 10: Monitoring The Driver

    SSD7540 Linux CentOS7.8 Installation Guide Open source driver needs to be installed after system installation. Run the .bin file to install the driver package. Linux open source driver link, open the following link to enter the "Software Download" page to download: https://highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series-ssd7540-overview.htm...

  • Page 11: Installing Raid Management Software

    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 SSD7540 controller. Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents for more information.
  • Page 12 SSD7540 Linux CentOS7.8 Installation Guide 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 * * Create RAID10 array with all disks and with maximum capacity. Ÿ Delete Command Syntax delete {array ID} Examples <<< delete 1 Delete the first array from Logical device list. <<< delete 2 Delete the second array from Logical device list. Ÿ Info Command Syntax info Display physical device list and logical list Ÿ...

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