On Sunday 09 January 2005 22:59, Ho Chaw Ming wrote:
Anyone have experience using Hight Point Rocketraid 464 on a CentOs 3.3 system? High Point drivers seem to only support a really outdated kernel version and I am having problems getting the system to recognise the raid card (and thus the whole raid).
According to High Point's website, it's an HPT374 chip.
See http://www.gulu.net/krd/hpt_rocketraid404_linux.html for some information. The links referenced are incorrect; go to http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr464.htm for the drivers. Linux drivers, a GUI and a CLI RAID manager are available for download. Red Hat 7.2 is listed as supported; RHEL3/CentOS is based on this dist, so the drivers should work.
From what I can see, the HPT374 drivers are available in source form; see http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS%20%2B%20Driver/hpt374/Linux/hpt374-openso... for them.
And be sure to note the following note in the included readme.txt: If the kernel contains built-in IDE support for HPT374 controller, you must disable the kernel support before using this driver. You can either rebuild a kernel without HPT374 support, or use boot parameters like "hdx=noprobe" to disable the built-in driver.
There is a proprietary binary-only 'raid.o' module used in the opensource drivers; this probably is just a higher-performance software raid. Standard Linux software RAID works fine with HighPoint chips; I am in fact using a motherboard with an HPT370 controller on board, but I'm not using the RAID features. The box is running the ScientificLinux version of the RHEL3 kernel and it Just Works. I can provide a dmesg excerpt if you'd like.