Topic: Highpoint raidcontroller

[Paul van Dun]

This is not a question but I have the Highpoint IDE HPT370A working as a raid controller, it took me 2 days but it's working just fine !!!
And it's cheap to buy


Best regards,

Paul van Dun

[Kelvin]

Hi Paul,

Which version of E-smith did you get it working on ? I've gotten it to work on ESSG 4.1.2 before but do not have drivers for SME 5 (ie kernel 2.2.19). If you have the driver for SME 5, do you mind sharing ? If not, could you e-mail them to me ?

TIA !

Cheers,

Kelvin

[Paul van Dun]

There seems to be no driver for SME 5.0 because the SME 5.0 kernel isn't the same as the RedHat 7.1 kernel.
However the 4.12 kernel is the same as RedHat 7.0.

I'm sorry.


Best regards

Paul van Dun

[Jaime Nebrera]

Hi:

  How have you done it? Does it support RAID in the bootable HD?

  I'm using ESGS 4.1.2 too. Could you give us detailed instructions

  Thanks in advance

[Paul van Dun]

I don't know if it's bootable because my mainbaord won't boot from the highpoint card.
At this time I'm writing a Howto in Dutch for the (un)official E-smith site in the Netherlands http://www.minddigger.com
After is done I'll transalate into English so please be patient.
But first of all try this:
Download the Redhat manual from the site http://www.highpoint-technologies.com download the RedHat bios for the Card and copy the file load.exe and the file bios.v21 to a win95/98 bootdisk.
Flash the card from a win95/98 disk with the program load, so after you've booted from win disk you're on a:
type load.exe bios.v21 and follwow the instructions.
Print the manual and perform the following steps:
1  Step 1 of page 3
2  goto the directory mentioned in Step 1 (/tmp) and type:
    depmod -a; insmod hpt370.o
3  Step 4 of page 5
4  Try "Checking devices" on page 6
5  Throw away the manual, because after this it won't help you
6  Open the file rc.sysinit in the directory /etc/rc.d and find the line # add raid devices it's almost at the end.
7  After this line insert the following line:
    depmod -a; insmod /tmp/hpt370.o
8  save the file
9  Use fdisk and mkfs, to delete any partitions and format the attached drives,   should be sda, sdb,sdc or sdd
10 Reboot the server, and in the setup program of the card configure the raid array, and sync the attached disk, but you'll be promted to do that.
11 After the server is started edit you're fstab for the exact mounting point, mine was: /dev/dsa1  /home/e-smith/files/ibays/data/files ext2 defaults 1 2
12  Reboot again, and at server prompt type:
chown root.shared /home/e-smith/files/ibays/data/files and type
chmod 0770 /home/e-smith/files/ibays/data/files
13  Now the data ibay(or another) is writeable


This is as short as it can be the howto will be step by step, I'll hope this will help you for the time being.

Best regards


Paul van Dun
The Netherlands