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. Thanks for any help. -- Dave ******************************************************************************* There are 10 types of people. Those who understand binrary ... ...and those who don't ############################################################################### David Kingsley, Systems Administrator Eastern Nazarene College 23 East Elm Avenue Quincy, MA 02170 david.kingsley@enc.edu 617-745-3806
On 8/18/06, Dave Kingsley <david.kingsley@enc.edu> 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. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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. When I set up a RAID5 with 7 750GB drives I get nothing but wierdness. Using sysinstall -> Configure -> Fdisk I can see the full size: DISK Geometry: 547149 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 8789948685 sectors (4291967MB) But Label sees: Disk: da0 Partition name: da0s1 Free: 200014030 blocks (97663MB) What am I doing wrong? All of the drivers seem to installed; at least they say they are. Is this just too big for FreeBSD? I hope not! Help! -- Dave ******************************************************************************* There are 10 types of people. Those who understand binrary ... ...and those who don't ############################################################################### David Kingsley, Systems Administrator Eastern Nazarene College 23 East Elm Avenue Quincy, MA 02170 david.kingsley@enc.edu 617-745-3806
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. > When I set up a RAID5 with 7 750GB drives I get nothing but wierdness. > Using sysinstall -> Configure -> Fdisk I can see the full size: > DISK Geometry: 547149 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 8789948685 sectors > (4291967MB) > > But Label sees: > Disk: da0 Partition name: da0s1 Free: 200014030 blocks (97663MB) > > What am I doing wrong? All of the drivers seem to installed; at least > they say they are. > Is this just too big for FreeBSD? I hope not! > > Help!Zero out the first few tracks of da0 to clean off any cruft and use gpt to create the label (from memory, did this August 2005) gpt create /dev/da0 gpt add /dev/da0 newfs -youroptionshere /dev/da0p1 --------- df -h /3ware Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0p1 4.0T 3.8T 161G 96% /3ware