1:28 p.m.
Hello Everyone,
I have a rocketraid 1740 controller that I want to use in a soon to be
installed Fedora 7 system. Highpoint's website doesn't have any Fedora
7 drivers, but they do provide a package that will let end users build
the rr1740x module for any 2.4 or 2.6 series kernel.
How would one build the rr1740x module for Fedora 7 if one doesn't have
a Fedora 7 system to build the driver on? Can I install the
kernel-devel package from Fedora 7 on a Fedora 6 host, and build the
module that way? Should I use a Fedora 7 virtual machine (e.g. vmware,
xen, etc.)?
Regards,
Ranbir
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5:26 p.m.
On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:28:15 -0400
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak(a)thesandhufamily.ca> wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I have a rocketraid 1740 controller that I want to use in a soon to be
installed Fedora 7 system.
It ought to just work. The 1740 according to the info I have is just a
Marvell 88SX6042 and some funky Windows/BIOS raid software.
6:37 p.m.
On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 23:26 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 14:28:15 -0400
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak(a)thesandhufamily.ca> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have a rocketraid 1740 controller that I want to use in a soon to be
> installed Fedora 7 system.
It ought to just work. The 1740 according to the info I have is just a
Marvell 88SX6042 and some funky Windows/BIOS raid software.
What kernel module gets loaded, then?
I was going to use the card with three SATA II drives to create a 1 TB
RAID 5 array, and install Fedora 7 on it. But, then I thought that if
the card driver wasn't in the kernel, I would have to rebuild it with
each kernel upgrade, including inserting it into the initrd - big pain
in the ass.
Soooo, I've been considering using an IDE drive as the boot/OS drive,
and the RAID array for data to make everything simpler (no need to put
the module into the initrd with each new kernel upgrade).
Regards,
Ranbir
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8:58 a.m.
> It ought to just work. The 1740 according to the info I have is
just a
> Marvell 88SX6042 and some funky Windows/BIOS raid software.
What kernel module gets loaded, then?
I would expect the AHCI driver to handle it. Although I can't guarantee
that is the case without tyring it.
1:54 p.m.
On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 14:58 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > It ought to just work. The 1740 according to the info I
have is just a
> > Marvell 88SX6042 and some funky Windows/BIOS raid software.
>
> What kernel module gets loaded, then?
I would expect the AHCI driver to handle it. Although I can't guarantee
that is the case without tyring it.
As I suspected, Fedora 7 didn't detect the rocketraid 1740, so either
Fedora doesn't ship a kernel with the needed module, or Highpoint hasn't
got the driver into Linux yet. The driver might be proprietary too - I
don't know.
Well, this makes things about 10x harder. Now I have to figure out how
to build the damn module with a Fedora 7 machine.
Regards,
Ranbir
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2:54 p.m.
> I would expect the AHCI driver to handle it. Although I
can't guarantee
> that is the case without tyring it.
As I suspected, Fedora 7 didn't detect the rocketraid 1740, so either
Fedora doesn't ship a kernel with the needed module, or Highpoint hasn't
It may be a PCI identifier we don't know. What does lspci -vvxxx say
about it assuming you've got the box running off the other disk
controller ?
got the driver into Linux yet. The driver might be proprietary too -
I
don't know.
Doubt it.
7:15 p.m.
On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 20:54 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
It may be a PCI identifier we don't know. What does lspci -vvxxx
say
about it assuming you've got the box running off the other disk
controller ?
Unfortunately, that would have been the smart thing to do, so I didn't
do it. :( I ripped out all the old PATA drives and installed the SATA
II drives, thinking that I could somehow get the driver installed during
the Fedora 7 install.
> got the driver into Linux yet. The driver might be proprietary
too - I
> don't know.
Doubt it.
The rocketraid modules I did find in the kernel didn't work with the
1740 I have.
I managed to install a fourth drive in the case, so now I'm using a 20
GB PATA drive for the boot / OS drive. I then built the 1740 driver and
inserted into the running kernel. The 1740 driver is definitely
proprietary:
Jul 8 20:11:28 blizzard kernel: rr174x: module license 'Proprietary'
taints kernel.
Jul 8 20:11:28 blizzard kernel: rr174x:0: RocketRAID 174x controller
driver v1.02 (Jul 8 2007 20:10:02)
That explains why it's not in the kernel - bastards. I wanted an
inexpensive card, but didn't do enough research before hand. Oh well...
Regards,
Ranbir
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4:44 a.m.
I managed to install a fourth drive in the case, so now I'm using
a 20
GB PATA drive for the boot / OS drive. I then built the 1740 driver and
inserted into the running kernel. The 1740 driver is definitely
proprietary:
Can you email me an lspci -vvxxx of the system now you've got it running.
Chances are that the marvell driver (sata_mv or ahci) just needs a new
PCI identifier to replace the entire rr174x stuff
7:29 p.m.
On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 20:54 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I would expect the AHCI driver to handle it. Although I
can't guarantee
> > that is the case without tyring it.
>
> As I suspected, Fedora 7 didn't detect the rocketraid 1740, so either
> Fedora doesn't ship a kernel with the needed module, or Highpoint hasn't
It may be a PCI identifier we don't know. What does lspci -vvxxx say
about it assuming you've got the box running off the other disk
controller ?
Here's the output from lspci:
02:01.0 SCSI storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. Unknown
device 1740 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 11ab
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
Region 0: Memory at ff900000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=1M]
Region 2: I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
Queue=0/0 Enable-
Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
Capabilities: [60] PCI-X non-bridge device
Command: DPERE- ERO- RBC=512 OST=4
Status: Dev=ff:1f.0 64bit+ 133MHz+ SCD- USC- DC=simple
DMMRBC=512 DMOST=4 DMCRS=8 RSCEM- 266MHz- 533MHz-
00: 03 11 40 17 17 01 b0 02 02 00 00 01 08 40 00 00
10: 04 00 90 ff 00 00 00 00 01 d8 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ab 11 ab 11
30: 00 00 00 00 40 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0a 01 00 00
40: 01 50 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
50: 05 60 80 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
60: 07 00 30 00 f8 ff 83 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
BTW, I tried sata_mv, but that didn't work. Only the proprietary rr174x
module has worked so far. Maybe I'm missing something...
Regards,
Ranbir
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1:59 p.m.
On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 20:29 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
Here's the output from lspci:
02:01.0 SCSI storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. Unknown
device 1740 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 11ab
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21
Region 0: Memory at ff900000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)
[size=1M]
Region 2: I/O ports at d800 [size=256]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
Queue=0/0 Enable-
Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
Capabilities: [60] PCI-X non-bridge device
Command: DPERE- ERO- RBC=512 OST=4
Status: Dev=ff:1f.0 64bit+ 133MHz+ SCD- USC- DC=simple
DMMRBC=512 DMOST=4 DMCRS=8 RSCEM- 266MHz- 533MHz-
Is this RocketRaid 1740 supported in Fedora 7 or 8 now?
Regards,
Ranbir
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2:37 p.m.
On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:59:17 -0500
Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak(a)thesandhufamily.ca> wrote:
On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 20:29 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> Here's the output from lspci:
>
> 02:01.0 SCSI storage controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. Unknown
> device 1740 (rev 02)
> Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device 11ab
> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop-
Is this RocketRaid 1740 supported in Fedora 7 or 8 now?
The chip is supported by the latest kernels (it's a Marvell chip with a
different PCI identifier). The Marvell driver itself is still a bit iffy
with the newest chips but the 1740 ought to work reasonably now.
I'm not however sure if 1740 support made the FC8 discs.
Alan
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