Topic: Controller IDE Driver disk

[Nicola]

I bought the Highpoint Rocket 133 IDE controller (hpt302) and i download the drivers compiled for RH 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0

I tried each of them but, due the different kernel version, I'm not able to run into sme server 5.5 or 5.6 beta1.

Does someone out there can help me compiling the right driver?

Thanks,
Nicola

[Jeff]

I have experience compiling the highpoint drivers (although I'm using the Rocket Raid 404 hpt374)  Do you still need help with this?

[Nicola]

no thanks, i found a guy who make the driver for sme 5.6

If you'd like the driver, let me know, i'll send you.

Thanks,
Nicola

[Joshua B]

Is there anyway to install SME 5.6 while using a RocketRaid 133?

I can't get SME to recognize the card and unlike a debian or Redhat install I can't go to expert mode and specify a driver disk.

There are 2 IDE drives attached to the PCI card (RocketRaid 133) in a mirrored conifg.

I've thought about breaking the mirror, putting one of the drives on the Motherboard's controller, installing, modifying the install and possibly kernel, and then putting the drive back on the RAID controller.  Is that the best or only way?

Thank you,

Joshua

[Jeff]

If you press [Caps lock] before the e-smith disk boots, you will receive a boot: prompt.  At this prompt, type " accept dd ", installation will proceed as normal - and include the opportunity to use your driver disk.

I'm apparently having "issues" creating my driver disk for 5.6.  (still working the problem.)  I did however successfully install 5.1.2 on a RocketRaid 404 (4 channel) last year, so I'm confident about getting it to work on 5.6.

[Joshua B]

Thanks Jeff,

I think I've run into the same issues with the driver disk.
I create the disk per Highpoint's instructions and then use the "accept dd" trick you mentioned.
I get a prompt to insert the driver disk which I do.
The computer then says Installing XXXX.
Then I get the prompt: "Please insert the 1 driver disk now."
If I click OK (I assume the driver disk I made is actually a driver disk, but I uncompressed the modules from modules.cgz on a second try) I get the error:

Failed to mount the Driver disk:
No such device

Any thoughts?

[Jeff]

Joshua:

Yes I am receiving exactly the same error!  I don't know where to go from here...  hoping a driver disk guru will respond...

[Nicola]

Joshua and Jeff:

I am receiving exactly the same error too!! (

[Joshua]

Here's an update of things I've tried:
I installed  5.6 on an IDE drive attached to the controller on the motherboard - no RAID.
Then I tried to get the server to recognize the RocketRaid 133 controller
      Insmod sd_mod, scsi_mod, and hpt37x2.o
      No luck

      added the redhat 7.3 kernel supplied by Highpoint.
      No Luck
      the kernel version is 2.4.18-3, not 2.4.18-5.  I'm not sure what the differences are but it didn't boot - Kernel panic - during boot.

      If someone has developer mods on a system and would like to make  a new kernel as per the Highpoint directions that would be great.  I'm not real  comfortable doing things like that yet and don't have a spare system to put the kernel source files, et al on.

Joshua

[Jeff]

Joshua:

I have compiled both the Rocket Raid 133 driver (hpt37x2.o) and the RocketRaid 404 (hpt374.o) drivers for the e-smith 5.6 kernel.

You can download the files at:
RocketRaid 133 -> www.acetechpartners.com/hpt37x2.o
RocketRaid 404 -> www.acetechpartners.com/hpt374.o

At your service,
Jeff

[Joshua B]

Jeff -

You ROCK!

I'll give the 133 driver a test this weekend.  Have a great one.

Joshua B

[Seth]

I experienced the same error as everyone else with the htp374 driver disk provided by highpoint.

 I downloaded Jeff's hpt374.o and tried insmod mod_scsi, insmod mod_sd, insmod hpt374 but it still failed with various unresoved symbols (register_scsi_..., unregister_scsi_..., I think)

Jeff, did you build that module you provided for i686 or Athlon? I'm running an Athlon (single processor)

Cheers,
Seth.

[David]

I have followed the previous threads about the highpoint 404 controller and even downloaded jeffs hpt374.o file. I am still unable to make this work. I am fairly new to SME but here is my situation.

I have SME 5.6 up and running on an IDE drive. Now I want to run two mirrored drives off of the RAID 404 controller. Can someone point me to more details about what I need to do.

Jeff, were you successfull with the 374 drivers? What should I need to do to make them work with a pristine 5.6 install?

thanks all,

David Nowakowski

[Jeff]

I'm currently working out the details of getting the RocketRaid 404 to work with a virgin install of SME 5.6.  I will update everyone on my success (or failures) as I go along. I have SME 5.1.2 (production box) working on the Rocket Raid 404 ->love it.  I just received a second card to work out the raid issues on 5.6 on my test box.

Also... I compiled the RR404 driver for intel.  I will upload the Athlon version tonight. http://www.jeffandsteph.com/athlon/hpt374.o

Have a great weekend.

Jeff

[Seth]

That would be great Jeff, thanks!

Seth.