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RocketRAID 2680 SAS/SA T AII Host Adapter User ’ s Guide Revision: 1.0 Date: August 2008 HighPoint T echnologies, Inc. 1[...]

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T able of Contents Congratulations Specifications and Features .......................................................................................... 6 Operating System Support ............................................................................................ 8 Physical Specifications ..................................................[...]

Device Driver CD and HighPoint RAID Manage- ment 1 - Creating a Driver Diskette ...................................................................................... 2 0 2 - Device Driver Installation ...................................................................................... 2 1 3 - HighPoint RAID Management Utilities (HRM) ...........[...]

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Congratulations Congratulations Y ou have purchased one of the highest performing and most cost effective 8 channel SAS RAID controllers available.The RocketRAID 2680 offers the flexibility to support both the highest performing SAS 15,000 RPM hard drives, and larger capacity cost sensitive SA T A hard drives in homogeneous and heterogeneous storag[...]

Congratulations • BIOS booting support • Online Array roaming • Automatic hard drive (insert / remove) detection • Automatic RAID rebuild • 64bit LBA support greater than 2TB per volume Array Monitors, Alerts and Indicators • Hard Drive LED Indicators (Activity and Failed) • Email Notification • Alarm/Buzzer alerts for drive/array f[...]

Congratulations Operating System Support • W indows XP , 2003, V ista, 2008 (32 and 64-bit versions) • Linux (Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise / CentOS, SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu) • Mac OS X 10.4.x and above FreeBSD • Freebsd Kit Contents RR2680 Host Adapter 2 Internal Mini-SAS to Mini-SAS cables Low-profile bracket User Manual HighPoint Products[...]

Hardware - Description and Installation 1 – RocketRAID 2680 Host Adapter layout RocketRAID 2680 Port1- Port2 - These represent the RocketRAID 2680’ s 2 Internal Mini-SAS ports. Each port can direct connnect up to 4 SA T A/SAS hard disks. BEEP1 – (alarm/speaker): the speaker emits and audible alarm in the case of disk/array failure. J1 – Thi[...]

Hardware – Description and Installation 2 – LED Connections LED connectors (Drive-activity/Drive-failure): LED support is discussed in greater detail in the LED Connection section. The RocketRAID 2680 host adapter has 4 LED connectors that are used to indicate the activity and failure status of hard drives to the card’ s 8 SA T A/SAS channels[...]

Hardware – Description and Installation 3 – Hardware Installation Note: Make sure the system is powered-off before installing the RocketRAID host adapter. The RocketRAID 2680 include both standard and low-profile brackets. It may be necessary to attach the low-profile bracket in place of the standard bracket, depend- ing upon the chassis design[...]

3 . After installing the adapter, attach hard drives to the host adapter using the data cable. The RocketRAID 2680 model utilizes 2 Mini-SAS to Mini-SAS Cables are included in each retail box. This card can support up to 8 3Gb/s SAS or SA T A Hard Drives directly or upto 128 3Gb/s SAS or SA T A Hard Drives via SAS Expander . Note: Many server-level[...]

RocketRAID BIOS Utility RocketRAID BIOS Utility The RocketRAID 2680 card will display it’ s BIOS screen during the system’ s boot process. Press Control + H when prompted, to access the BIOS settings Menu. 1 - BIOS Settings Overview The RocketRAID 2680 BIOS utility is an interface that provides management com- mands and controller related setti[...]

RocketRAID BIOS Utility BIOS Commands Create - this command is used to open the RAID Creation menu. Delete - this command will delete the selected RAID array. Add/Remove Spare - this command is used to assign hard disks to function as spare disks. The controller is capable of using spare disks to automatically rebuild broken or faulted RAID arrays.[...]

RocketRAID BIOS Utility Highlight the tar get disks using the arrow keys, then select using Enter . A numeral will be displayed before each selected disk. Once all target disks have been selected, press ESC. The utility will display a warning, and ask you to press Y (yes) to initialize, or N (no) to cancel. Once initialized, these disks can be used[...]

RocketRAID BIOS Utility 2 . Use the arrow keys to highlight the Array Name option and press Enter . The array name dialogue box will appear . Use the keyboard to input a new Array Name, and press the Enter key. Note: the Array Name command is optional – it is not necessary to name the array. The array can be named at a later time, and the name of[...]

RocketRAID BIOS Utility 3 – Deleting Arrays Highlight the Delete command from the toolbar, and press Enter. The BIOS utility will display a list of available RAID arrays. Select the array you wish to delete, and press Enter. Write Back – utilizes disk cache (higher performing) Write Through – writes directly to the disks (may reduce the risk [...]

RocketRAID BIOS Utility The utility will display a warning message. Press Y (yes) to delete the array, or select N (no) to cancel. W arning: all data stored on the array will be lost – do not delete if the array contains critical data. 4 - Adding/Remove Spare Disks This Add/Remove Spare command is used to assign a hard disk to act as a Spare Disk[...]

RocketRAID BIOS Utility 5 - Settings T o access the Settings menu, highlight the Settings command from the toolbar , and press Enter. Generally, single disks are designated to act as spares (disks that are not configured into RAID arrays). However, in some instances, disks that are members of RAID arrays may also be designated to act as a spare. If[...]

Device Driver CD and HighPoint RAID Management Device Drive CD and HighPoint RAID Man- agement Each retail box includes a copy of the HighPoint Products Software CD. This CD can be used to generate driver diskettes, and install the HighPoint RAID Management Utility Suite for a variety of operating systems. 1 - Creating a driver diskette W indows 20[...]

Device Driver CD and HighPoint RAID Management 21 2 - Device Driver Installation W e recommend visiting the RocketRAID 2680 download page for the latest W indows Device Driver updates: http://highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr2680.htm Drivers are posted in .zip archive format. Most W indows operating systems will recognize this archive format, natively[...]

Device Driver CD and HighPoint RAID Management 22 Windows Driver Installation (Win2000, XP, Win 2003) Before installing the RocketRAID 2680 host adapter ’ s device driver , make sure the host adapter and all required hard disks have been installed into the system’ s chassis/ disk enclosure. If you are working with a supplied driver, or driver d[...]

Device Driver CD and HighPoint RAID Management 23 Installation V erification After the driver has been installed, and the system has been restarted: 1 . Click the Start button, then right-click the “My Computer” icon. Select the Properties item from the pop up menu. 2 . In the popup window, click the “Hardware” tab then click Device Manager[...]

Device Driver CD and HighPoint RAID Management 24 Windows V ista/2008 Driver Installation Installing the driver during a fresh Windows Vista/2008 installation 1 . Boot from W indows V ista DVD. 2 . When the screen “ where do you want to install Windows ” appears, click “ Load driver ” and browse for the driver location. W indows V ista will[...]

Device Driver CD and HighPoint RAID Management 25 Installation V erification After the driver has been installed, and the system has been restarted: 1 . Click the Start button, then right-click My Computer icon. Select the Properties item from the popup menu. 2 . In the popup window, select Hardware tab and then click Device Manager button. 3 . Dou[...]

Device Driver CD and HighPoint RAID Management 26 Several driver sets are also included with the RocketRAID 2680 Software CD. Each binary driver and source package includes an installation guide (.pdf format). Linux Driver sets: RR2680/Driver/Linux directory. FreeBSD Driver sets: RR2680/Driver/FreeBSD directory. Linux and FreeBSD Device Driver inst[...]

Device Driver CD and HighPoint RAID Management 27 Mac OS X Driver and W eb-based RAID Management Utility The driver and software package for the RocketRAID 2680 includes both the device driver for OS X, and a copy of the W eb RAID Management utility . Please check http: //www.hptmac.com for the latest software/driver packages. Driver updates are po[...]

Device Driver CD and HighPoint RAID Management 28 Click “ Continue ” to proceed with installation Installing the driver and W eb-based RAID Management Interface Copy the Mac driver and software package from the RR2680 Software CD, to the Mac Desktop. If you are using a copy from our website, locate the downloaded .dmg package. Open the .dmg fil[...]

Device Driver CD and HighPoint RAID Management 29 Click “ Restart ” – after OS X reboots, the card will be recognized by the system. Y ou can configure arrays using the W eb RAID Management interface. Select the installation destination:[...]

Device Driver CD and HighPoint RAID Management 30 3 - HighPoint RAID Management Utilities (HRM) The HighPoint RAID Management Utility Suite, also known as “HRM”, includes several user interface options. The latest version of the W eb Management utility user manual, is available from the following link: http://www.highpoint-tech.com/PDF/ RR26xx/[...]

Device Driver CD and HighPoint RAID Management 31 Red Hat Enterprise/CentOS, Fedora Core, Open SuSE – Installing the W eb-based Management utility Linux operating systems that support .rpm packages, allow you to double-click the HighPoint W eb RAID Management .rpm file to start the installation process. 1 . Copy the W eb RAID Management package f[...]

Device Driver CD and HighPoint RAID Management 32 Debian/Ubuntu Linux Distributions – Installing the W eb-based Management Utility For Debian/Ubuntu Linux distributions, you can use alien to convert the rpm pack- ages to a .deb package, then use “ dpkg -i ” command to install each package. Some script files may be lost during the conversion p[...]

Customer Support Customer Support If you encounter any problems while utilizing the RocketRAID host adapter, or have any questions about this or any other HighPoint product, feel free to contact our Customer Support Department. T r oubleshooting Checklist Before contacting our Customer Support department: • PCI-Express x4 (Compatible with PCI- Ex[...]

Customer Support 34 Contact Us HighPoint Corporate Headquarter USA Address 1161 Cadillac Ct. Milpitas, CA, 95035 W ebsite: http://www .highpoint-tech.com Phone: 1-408-942-5800 (9 am ~ 6 pm PST, M-F) Fax: 1-408-942-5801 E-mail: sales@highpoint-tech.com Support: support@highpoint-tech.com Support Phone: 1-408-240-6108 (9 am ~ 5 pm PST, M-F) HighPoint[...]

FCC Part 15 Class B Radio Frequency Interference statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and ca[...]

Thank Y ou Thank you for purchasing the RocketRAID 2680 SA T AII/SAS RAID Host adapter . W e appreciate your support, and welcome any questions, comments or product suggestions you may have.[...]