Rocket RAID 620 on CentOS 5.5 – Drivers don’t work.

0Harry • 9th Nov 2010 • Systems Administration • 620, centos, driver, Error to extract driver, rocket raid

I had some trouble with this controller getting the official drivers to install during a new server build.

Error: “Error to extract driver”

The manual states that the drivers are native in CentOS 5.5 (and beyond), this is not the case (at the time this entry was written).

The only drivers that are available from the manufactures website stop at CentOS 5.4 which makes sense if they’re native after this version however as I discovered this is not the case.

In fact the simplest way around this issue is to download the DVD .ISO for  CentOS 5.4 and perform a distribution update after the installation procedure.

Download the driver from: http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series_r600.htm in my case rr62x-rhel_centos-5u4-x86_64-v1.1.09.1221.tar.gz

Copy the contents of this .tar.gz file onto a USB device.

Boot the new server with this USB device already attached.

Once into the installation wizard, hold down CTRL+ALT+F2.

Type the following commands:

$ mkdir /dd
$ mount /dev/sda1 /dd
$ cp –r /dd /tmp/hptdd
$ sh /tmp/hptdd/rhel-install-step1.sh
$ umount /dd

Then press CTRL+ALT+F6 and continue with the installation.