Re: RocketRAID 1740 - 8.04
I don't have a RAID card myself but as for the software you are trying to install RPM's as you stated are not installable by apt. That's because RPM's are for REDHAT flavor's of Linux ie REDHAT,SuSE,CENTOS etc. Debian based distributions such as Ubuntu use .deb files as packages. Don't give up though, there is a way you can get RPM's to work in Debian based distro's with alien.
Run the following to install alien:
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sudo apt-get install alien
Next download the RPM file
Then to convert a rpm to a deb file use the following:
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sudo alien <insert rpm file name here>
That should provide you with a .deb file that you should be able to install. To install run the following:
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sudo dpkg -i <Insert .deb file that was created above>
I hope this helps you out.
Re: RocketRAID 1740 - 8.04
I've got the same RAID controller... managed to install it using the source files. But I have to run some scripts in order to make them visible in Ubuntu.
When I get home, I'll post here what I did.
Re: RocketRAID 1740 - 8.04
Sorry, I made a little howto, but can't find it anymore.
This might be even better though:
http://www.highpoint-tech.cn/China/bios_rr1740c.htm
Don't ask me why, but there are Ubuntu files on the Chinese website of HighPoint. Why can't they put them on the english pages too :o
Re: RocketRAID 1740 - 8.04
Ok, I got it working!
Those drivers found on the Chinese website (see my post above), didn't work here, probably because I'm using Ubuntu 8.10 64bit. But there are drivers for up to 8.04, so they might work for you.
This is what I did:
Download the opensource driver:
http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bi...ensourcedriver
Extract the files to a folder (I used: rr174x-linux-src-v2.1).
Then do this in the terminal:
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cd rr174x-linux-src-v2.1/product/rr1740pm/linux
sudo make install
After a reboot, the RAID was loaded. I'm a bit surprised it was so simple...
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dmesg | grep rr174x
gave me this:
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[ 12.832738] rr174x:RocketRAID 174x controller driver v2.1.08.0710 (Feb 17 2009 21:43:21)
[ 12.832780] rr174x:adapter at PCI 5:2:0, IRQ 18
[ 13.401941] rr174x:start channel [0,0]
[ 13.403378] rr174x:start channel [0,1]
[ 13.404000] rr174x:start channel [0,2]
[ 13.404000] rr174x:start channel [0,3]
[ 13.608011] rr174x:[0 0] Start channel soft reset.
[ 13.608031] rr174x:[0 1] Start channel soft reset.
[ 13.608050] rr174x:[0 2] Start channel soft reset.
[ 13.608068] rr174x:[0 3] Start channel soft reset.
[ 13.916002] rr174x:channel [0,0] started successfully
[ 13.916002] rr174x:channel [0,1] started successfully
[ 13.916002] rr174x:channel [0,2] started successfully
[ 13.916002] rr174x:channel [0,3] started successfully
[ 14.269157] scsi16 : rr174x
I guess this will also work for 8.04.
Re: RocketRAID 1740 - 8.04
Great, this way it worked for me.Strange that manufacturers driver doesn't work and user has to use "make" on souce.
Re: RocketRAID 1740 - 8.04
I have yet to try this on 9.04, but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
I saw that they updated their drivers page, a lot of version specific drivers are available now. They should work too.
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Strange that manufacturers driver doesn't work
Mind that those opensource drivers are also from the manufacturer.;)
Re: RocketRAID 1740 - 8.04
true, but I had to use "make" like you did, since february they posted Ubuntu drivers on http://www.highpoint-tech.com, unfortunately they did NOT work for me (8.04 LTS, x86_64bit fresh install)
Now I have RAID webgui functional (converted using alien -d) and my new RAID5 seem alive ;) Thanks for help
I'm totally new to Linux, will try now to set SAMBA and the rest for winXP stations
Re: RocketRAID 1740 - 8.04
Nice to know that the WebGUI also works, thanks for mentioning that :D
Re: RocketRAID 1740 - 8.04
Thanks to both of you for your posts i was able to get my 1740 highpoint up and working.
I did find it a bit difficult so I made a HOW TO for anyone else. Credit goes to everyone ;)
1740 Rocket Raid HOWTO
By Ben Murray July 7th 2009
This is a basic how to install and setup a highpoint rocket
raid card 1740 with 4 sata hard drives and by no means perfect.
First get the driver from highpoint-tech for your distro.
# sudo mkdir /temp/dd
# sudo tar xzvf rr174x-yourdistro.tgz -C /tmp/dd
# cd /tmp/dd
# sudo sh install.sh
once install has finished
# sudo modprobe "XXXX" <--- your module name in this case rr174x
or ou can reboot the system but your module may not start so you may need to still do this.
after reboot
# sudo dmesg | grep rr174x
Should get something like this
[ 12.832738] rr174x:RocketRAID 174x controller driver v2.1.08.0710 (Feb 17 2009 21:43:21)
[ 12.832780] rr174x:adapter at PCI 5:2:0, IRQ 18
[ 13.401941] rr174x:start channel [0,0]
[ 13.403378] rr174x:start channel [0,1]
[ 13.404000] rr174x:start channel [0,2]
[ 13.404000] rr174x:start channel [0,3]
[ 13.608011] rr174x:[0 0] Start channel soft reset.
[ 13.608031] rr174x:[0 1] Start channel soft reset.
[ 13.608050] rr174x:[0 2] Start channel soft reset.
[ 13.608068] rr174x:[0 3] Start channel soft reset.
[ 13.916002] rr174x:channel [0,0] started successfully
[ 13.916002] rr174x:channel [0,1] started successfully
[ 13.916002] rr174x:channel [0,2] started successfully
[ 13.916002] rr174x:channel [0,3] started successfully
[ 14.269157] scsi16 : rr174x
Next assuming your raid array has been configured via high point bios (crtl-h on boot)
locate in /dev your raid drive in this case it was /dev/sdb .
so partion the raid drive
# sudo fdisk /dev/sdb
in the fdisk command use m for help pretty straight forward (google is you friend for fdisk)
after fdisk
# sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1
and wait
configure system to mount volume when startup
modify the /etc/fstab to add the following line
/dev/sd"X" /mnt/raid ext3 defaults 0 0
("X" being your raid drive found in /dev i.e. /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1 so on)
/mnt/raid may need to be created or you could use another name
to make "raid" directory use:
# sudo mkdir /mnt/raid
thats all