From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 21 08:49:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E00016A4EF for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:49:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A693843D49 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:49:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so1490582wxd for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:49:19 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=PNDBiwSvbbG61NCD7P1gxZBazXafWnnVPIbAoNrg93KTHQKLDTC8WDcoYi/5jMTqPZAQ5VbgZAN/BWLTGEGq2Wp+MFlhcxaXBb9gkKlgEyQTrkMzIU8+iNbqXky/EWLX8C3upcRzLcQAb0AFGla/eG+TQTZkx6TWkVu68nkHusg= Received: by 10.70.87.9 with SMTP id k9mr9228541wxb; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:49:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.49.3 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:49:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:49:18 -0700 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Dave Kingsley" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44E5C217.4080205@enc.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RocketRAID 2224 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:49:22 -0000 On 8/18/06, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 8/18/06, Dave Kingsley wrote: > > I am attemping to use a RocketRAID 2224 8 channel card to set up a > > storage server. The server board is an Intel SE7230NH1-E with a P4-D > > 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM. > > FreeBSD doesn't see it at all. I've noticed that the kernel config has > > options built in for the RocketRAID 182x. > > Are there options I can add for the newer card? If so, will they work > > with FreeBSD 6.1 so that I can reconfigure for it rather than 6.0 that's > > running now? > > Basically we're trying to set up backups to disk with a RAID of about 4.5TB. > > > > FreeBSD has native support for the following: > $whatis highpoint > hptmv(4) - HighPoint RocketRAID 182x device driver > rr232x(4) - HighPoint RocketRAID 232x device driver > > You have have a 2224 so no. You will need to use HighPoint's FreeBSD > drivers. You can download everything from here: > http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr2224.htm > > While your at it update your cards BIOS (if needed) and grab a copy of > "CLI FreeBSD v2.2", the RAID management utility. After you download > the driver and un-tar it use the rr222x-bsd-6.img file... It's > designed for FreeBSD 6.0 but works perfect on FreeBSD 6.1... Follow > the steps below, remember to change /dev/md0 if needed: > > This installs the device driver: > # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f rr222x-bsd-6.img > # mount /dev/md0 /mnt > # cp /mnt/hptmv6-6.0.ko /boot/modules/ > # echo 'hptmv6_load="yes"' >> /boot/loader.conf > > This installs the console management utility: > # pkg_add hptraidconf-2.2.tbz > # pkg_add hotsvr-3.12.tbz > > That's it, after you reboot everything will be working. You should > print out the pdf manual for the console management utility. If you > need more help just ask... I myself have an HPT 2220. > Sorry for the errors, here are the corrected steps: This installs the device driver: # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f rr222x-bsd-6.img # mount /dev/md0 /mnt # cp /mnt/hptmv6-6.0.ko /boot/modules/hptmv6.ko # echo 'hptmv6_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf This installs the console management utility: # pkg_add hptsvr-3.12.tbz # pkg_add hptraidconf-2.2.tbz -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/