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Old 08-03-2004, 10:47 AM   #1
swe_marty
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Question Suse 9.1 64bit & Highpoint Rocketraid 1640 Driverupdate


Hello everyone,

Ran into a problem while installing Suse 9.1 Pro on my latest server.
Im using a Msi k8t master2 mainboard with a dual opteron 242 setup,
as storage I choose 4 x 250gb sata hitachi discs on a Highpoint Rocketraid 1640 controller. As stated by Highpoint on their website it should support Suse 9.1.

So.. I downloaded the suse drivers and wrote them to a floppy using
rawrite.exe, while installing I got a "No floppy found" error.
Therefore I mounted the floppy image under linux and then burned
a cd to use as driverupdate medium. However, while mounting it during the
installation I got a "No driver found" error.

Apparantly, while checking the folders in the driverupdate image I discover
that there is the following drivers:
* i386-9.0
* i386-9.1
* x86_64-9.0

That figures why the drivers could not be found, Im trying to install
Suse 9.1 on a 64bit system. No drivers!

Tried to rename the folder to "x86_64-9.1" and install but the driver
wont load. I cant access the raid 5 device during the installation process.
I've verified the controller by installing XP and have no issues accessing the 750GB array, those drivers work flawless. But running XP as server OS
is not an option.

So, my question would have to be, has anyone been able to use
the rocketraid 1640 on a 64bit linux OS ? Redhat, Fedora, Debian ?
Could the existing drivers be used in anyway?

A solution would be to use a software raid setup (it is software raid anyhow, no XOR) but then we're missing the point of buying a raid controller.

Anyone have a suggestion ? Thankfull for any advice!

I've contacted Highpoint support to see if there's any new drivers in
the pipeline. Waiting for response.

Regards,
Martin
 
Old 08-03-2004, 05:06 PM   #2
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"Anyone have a suggestion ?"

See if you can find the source for the x86_64-9.0 driver. If you can find the source then try compiling it on your SuSE 9.1 system.

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Old 08-04-2004, 05:39 AM   #3
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Uhmm... After three emails back and forth, during the
same amount of days I got this reply from Highpoint:

>Dear Martin,
>
>We don't have SuSE 9.1 64 bit system driver now. You can >use OpenSource driver to build the driver for it by yourself.
>
>
>Regards,
>HighPoint Technologies Inc.

Well... its just a bit hard compiling the drivers when your
about to install the OS-system onto the array that you cant
get running.. Am I supposed to install a the linux on one
drive and then compile the driver, create the array and
move the running partition onto that.. mmmm... yea right..
Im way to newbie for that I must admit or just: I dont have
a week to jerk around with this anymore.

This is just to much... Im going software raid, throwing
that damn Highpoint card in the gutter. Well... might use it on a XP machine.. just expected the drivers to support
Suse 9.1 32-bit AND 64bit since it was stated to support Suse 9.1

So, guys, stick with adaptec/promise/3ware,
but then againg you might have the same problems there..

.martin
 
  


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