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

RocketRAID 37xx/8xx/28xx SATA

Controller

Ubuntu16.04.1

Installation Guide

Last updated on January 3, 2023

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

Table of Contents

1 Overview ......................................................................................................................................... 1

2 Installing Ubuntu16.04.1 on RR3740A controller ...................................................................... 1

Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation ...........................................................................1

Step 2 Check System EFI Settings ............................................................................................. 1

Step 3 Flash UEFI Rom to RR3740A ........................................................................................ 1

Step 4 Create Array .....................................................................................................................2

Step 5 Install Ubuntu 16.04.1 ................................................................................................... 3

3 Installing RR3740A driver on an Existing System ..................................................................... 5

Step 1 Obtain and install the Driver Module ..............................................................................6

Step 2 Configure System to Mount Volumes when Startup .......................................................6

4 Monitoring the Driver ................................................................................................................... 6

5 Installing RAID Management Software ...................................................................................... 6

6 Rebuilding Driver Module for System Update ........................................................................... 6

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1 Overview

The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use

RR3740A Controller on Ubuntu 16.04.1 system.

2 Installing Ubuntu 16.04.1 on RR3740A controller

If you would like to install Ubuntu 16.04.1 onto drives attached to RR3740A controller,

please perform the following operations:

Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation

Notcie: If your FT2000 motherboard is not directly connected to the SSD disk, it is normal for the

buzzer to sound continuously. You can communicate with the motherboard supplier to mute it.

After you attach your hard disks to RR3740A controller, you can use RR3740A EFI

Utility Utility to configure your hard disks as RAID arrays, or just use them as single

disks.

Before installation, you must remove all the disk drives, which are not physically attached

to RR3740A controller, from your system.

Note

If you have other SCSI adapters installed, you must make sure the RR3740A controller

EFI will be loaded firstly. If not, try to move it to another PCI slot. Otherwise you may be

unable to boot up your system.

Step 2 Check System EFI Settings

In your system BIOS SETUP menu, change Boot Sequence in such a way that the system

will first boot from EFI CDROM, and then from SCSI. Refer to your SCSI manual to see

how to set boot sequence.

If your EFI settings do not support such a boot sequence, you can first set it to boot from

EFI CDROM. After you finish installation, set SCSI as the first boot device to boot up the

system.

Step 3 Flash UEFI Rom to RR3740A

a. Unzip RR3740A UEFI package to root dir (/) of a USB flash driver, and insert the

USB flash drive to the motherboard;

b. Booting from the UEFI USB flash and enter the UEFI environment;

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c. Command with “rr3740a.nsh”, flash UEFI rom to RR3740A Controller and reboot;

Step 4 Create Array

a. Attach two SATA to RR3740A Controller;

Note

Make sure your USB flash partition format is FAT32.

b. Boot, in the presence of the motherboard Log screen, there will be SATA

information：

c. Enter the motherboard’s Boot List and select start from UEFI USB flash:

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d. Command ”Arraycreate.efi” to enter the Utility:

e. Command “create RAID1 ”.

Create RAID1 array with all disks and with maximum capacity.

f. Command “exit”,exit the UEFI environment；

g. For more command usages, refer to Appendix A.

Step 5 Install Ubuntu 16.04.1

Insert the USB diskette in to the USB port.

1) Start installing Ubuntu 16.04.1 by booting from the installation CD/DVD.

2) On the startup screen. Just select “Try Ubuntu without installing”, and then press

ENTER to start up the system.

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3) When enter the Ubuntu desktop.

Click the icon on the Left-Top cornet,and input “terminal” on the prompt box:

Click the “Terminal” icon to run Application“Terminal”

And execute following command in the new Terminal :

$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

$ mkdir /tmp/hptdd

$ tar xf /mnt/RR3740A_840A......tgz -C /tmp/hptdd/

$ sudo umount /mnt

And then unplug the USB disk from the system, and execute following command

to install the driver to install system.

$ sudo sh /tmp/hptdd/preinst.sh

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4) Click the “Install Ubuntu 16.04.1 LST ” icon on the desktop to start installation.

Do Not select “Download updates while installing Ubuntu”

5) When the installation prompts that “Installation complete”

$ sudo sh /tmp/hptdd/postinst.sh

And then click “Restart Now” or “Continue Testing” to complete the installation.

3 Installing RR3740A driver on an Existing System

Note

If you use a SCSI adapter to boot your system, you must make sure the RR3740A

controller EFI will be loaded after that adapter’s EFI. If not, try to move it to another PCI

slot. Otherwise you may be unable to boot up your system.

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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:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/raid ext3 defaults 0 0

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.

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To build the driver module, the RR3740A open source package and the following building

packages are needed: gcc, kernel-devel. The open source package can be got from

HighPoint website: http://www.highpoint-tech.com while the building tools can be

installed from CentOS website: http://www.centos.org

Note: the package version of kernel-devel should be the same to the updated kernel

package.

Refer to the REAME file distributed with HighPoint RR3740A open source package on

how to build and install the driver module.

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Appendix A

Support command:

help/info/quit/exit/create/delete.

Create Command

Syntax

Create Array Type (RAID0/RAID1/RAID10) Member Disk list

(1/1,1/2|*)Capacity(100|*)

Examples

<<< create RAID0

<<< create RAID0 *

<<< create RAID0 * *

Create RAID1 array with all disks and with maximum capacity.

<<< create RAID1 1/1, 1/3 10

Create RAID1 array with disk 1/1 and 1/3 and with 10GB

capacity.

<<< create RAID10 *

Create RAID10 array with all disk and with maximum capacity.

Delete Command

Syntax

delete {array ID}

Examples

<<< delete 1

Delete the first array from Logical device list.

<<< delete 2

Delete the second array from Logical device list.

Info Command

Syntax

info

Display physical device list and logical list

Exit Command

Syntax

Q/q/quit/exit

Quit the application

Help Command

Syntax

H/h/help

This is help message.

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