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RocketRAID 37xx/8xx/ Ubuntu16.04.1 Installation Guide

Step 1 Obtain and install the Driver Module

Extract the driver archive to a temporary directory and execute the install.sh to install the

driver to the system. For example:

# mkdir /tmp/dd

# tar xzvf RR37xx_8xx_28xx_Li nux_X86_64_Src_v1.xx.xx_22_xx_xx.tar.gz

-C /tmp/dd

# cd /tmp/dd

# sh install.sh

If the driver of previous version has been in the initrd image, the installer will update the

initrd image or it will make the driver automatically loaded while system up.

Step 2 Configure System to Mount Volumes when Startup

Now you can inform the system to automatically mount the array by modifying the file

/etc/fstab. E.g. you can add the following line to tell the system to mount /dev/sda1 to

location /mnt/raid after startup:

4 Monitoring the Driver

Once the driver is running, you can monitor it through the Linux proc file system support.

There is a special file under /proc/scsi/rr3740a/. Through this file you can view driver

status and send control commands to the driver.

Note

The file name is the SCSI host number allocated by OS. If you have no other SCSI cards

installed, it will be 0. In the following sections, we will use x to represent this number.

Using the following command to show driver status:

# cat /proc/scsi/rr3740a/x

This command will show the driver version number, physical device list and logical device

list.

5 Installing RAID Management Software

HighPoint RAID Management Software is used to configure and keep track of your hard

disks and RAID arrays attached to RR3740A controller. Installation of the management

software is optional but recommended.

Please refer to HighPoint RAID Management Software documents for more information.

6 Rebuilding Driver Module for System Update

When the system updates the kernel packages, the driver module rr3740a.ko should be

built and installed manually before reboot.

/dev/sda1

/mnt/raid

ext3

defaults

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