Ioat Driver Installation; Raid Utility Installation - Acer Altos R720 Installation & Configuration Manual

Altos R720 Installation Configuration Guide

IOAT driver installation

NOTE. Please update the onboard Gigabit Ethernet driver to version 7.6.5 (or
later) prior to install IOAT driver, you could found the driver from Acer GCSD
website (http://csd.acer.com.tw/SI/Download2006.nsf/ServerWeb) or EasyBUILD
8.0 build 100 (or later).
1. Please remove the old version of IOAT driver from the system manually.
# cd /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/dma
# mv ioatdma.ko ioatdma.ko.bak
2. You can find the IOAT driver in EasyBUILD. Please copy the driver from the
EasyBUILD to HDD first.
Copy the IOAT driver to /tmp
# cd /tmp
# tar zxf ioatdma-<ioat version>.tar.gz
3. Install the IOAT driver
# cd ioatdma-<ioat version>
# make install
4. Load the IOAT driver
# modprobe dca
# cd ioatdma
# insmod ioatdma.ko
# modprobe ioatdma
# ll /sys/class/dma/
When IOAT driver installation completed, you could see subdirectories and files
for each subdirectory of /sys/class/dma folder.

RAID Utility Installation

You can find the RAID Web Console 2 in EasyBUILD 7.1. Please refer to
1.
the directory of the RAID Web Console 2 in Software Required section
above and copy the utility from the EasyBUILD 7.1 to HDD first.
# mount /media/dvdram
# cp –R /media/dvdram/app/r720/raid/Integrated_SAS/Linux/. /tmp
Install RAID Web Console 2 utility
1.
# cd /tmp/
# chmod 755 install.sh
# chmod 755 RunRPM.sh
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