highpoint 2640x4 raid card and debian testing

radiodee1 · 07-06-2011, 10:24 AM

Code:

dave@zdesktop:~/workspace/rr2640-linux-src-v1.3-legacy_single/product/rr2640/linuxls$ make
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.39-2-686-pae'
  CC [M]  /home/dave/workspace/rr2640-linux-src-v1.3-legacy_single/product/rr2640/linuxls/.build/os_linux.o
In file included from /home/dave/workspace/rr2640-linux-src-v1.3-legacy_single/product/rr2640/linuxls/.build/os_linux.c:6:
/home/dave/workspace/rr2640-linux-src-v1.3-legacy_single/osm/linux/osm_linux.h:12:26: error: linux/config.h: No such file or directory
/home/dave/workspace/rr2640-linux-src-v1.3-legacy_single/product/rr2640/linuxls/.build/os_linux.c: In function ‘refresh_sd_flags’:
/home/dave/workspace/rr2640-linux-src-v1.3-legacy_single/product/rr2640/linuxls/.build/os_linux.c:347: error: too few arguments to function ‘blkdev_get’
make[4]: *** [/home/dave/workspace/rr2640-linux-src-v1.3-legacy_single/product/rr2640/linuxls/.build/os_linux.o] Error 1
make[3]: *** [_module_/home/dave/workspace/rr2640-linux-src-v1.3-legacy_single/product/rr2640/linuxls/.build] Error 2
make[2]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.39-2-686-pae'
make: *** [rr26xx.ko] Error 2

I want to buy a raid card. I'm thinking of buying the highpoint 2640x4. In preparation for the purchase I went to the site and downloaded the driver. Here I show output from when I tried to build it. I think I'm missing a file. I actually think that there's a file missing from the download. Does anyone have any ideas how to make this work? I've been looking for v1.2, but cannot find it. If that worked I guess the exercise would be a success. Much of what I read online refers to v1.2

Here's a link to the site:
http://www.highpoint-tech.com/usa_new/series_rr2600.htm

andrewthomas · 07-07-2011, 07:41 PM

Is

Code:

CONFIG_SCSI_MVSAS=m

set in your kernel .config?

It should be supported by the kernel.

EDIT: I guess that I am wrong. Check out this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...37-4-a-869636/

radiodee1 · 07-08-2011, 06:35 AM

@andrewthomas: Thanks for the link. It's good to see that somebody is patching these drivers. The last guy seems to be having the same trouble I am. The other people in the link seem to be talking about an entirely different card(s). One of the cards is the HighPoint 2320, but sadly this card is out of my price range.

Does anyone know of a good raid card that's cheap? Maybe this is the question I should have asked at the start. I want to implement RAID 5 or something like it. Or if anyone knows more about getting the 260x4 raid card to work, that would be good too. I do believe that the driver source tarball is missing a file. I don't know that there's anything a person can do about that kind of thing.