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Linux Driver Support
Additional Installation Notes:
The system device mapping order is the same as the order shown in RocketRAID
host adapter's BIOS Setting Utility. If no other SCSI adapters are installed, the device
marked as "BOOT" or "HDD0" will be identified as /dev/sda, "HDD1" as /dev/sdb,
"HDD2" as /dev/sdc, etc. When creating mount points, /boot must be mounted on /
dev/sda.
3 - Installing the RocketRAID 3522 Driver on an Exist-
ing System
If you are currently running SLES and would like to access drives or arrays attached
to the Rocket RAID host adapter, follow the steps outlined below:
Note:
1. If a SCSI adapter is used to boot the system, make sure the RocketRAID host adapter's
BIOS loads/posts after the SCSI adapter's BIOS. It may be necessary to move the
adapter(s) to another PCI slot.
2. The driver may work incorrectly on certain motherboards (such as DFI77B KT400).
For these motherboards, add the "acpi=off" kernel parameter in the/boot/grub/menu.lst:
kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 acpi=off
initrd (hd0,1)/initrd
Step 1 Update Grub
If you are running an SLES SMP System, you must first update the /boot/grub/menu.lst.
Example:
default=0
timeout=8
title Linux
kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinux root=/dev/hda1 acpi=off
initrd (hd0,1)/initrd
Reboot the system to allow the new kernel parameters to take effect.
Step 2 Install the Driver Module
Extract the module file from the file /linux/suse /[arch]-[version]/install/update.tar.gz
(from the driver disk), using the following commands (SLES 9 is used as an example):
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