ITE RAIDExpress 133 RedHat 7.3 Installation Guide and Release Note
Setepber 9, 2003
Mark Lu
April 6, 2004
Donald Huang
(C) Copyright 2002-2004 ITE, Inc.
1. Component Name(s) and Version #:
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Components : For Redhat 7.3
Kernels Tested : 2.4.18-3
Driver Version : v1.44
Release Date : April 6, 2003
2. Installation Guide
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2.1. **** Installing IT8212 Linux Driver into an EXISTING SYSTEM ****
01. Boot linux system and login as root.
02. Copy iteraid.o to any directory you want, then go to that driectory.
Using the following commands to get the iteraid.o:
# gzip -dc modules.cgz | cpio -idumv
Then you will have three directories.
/2.4.18-3/iteraid.o =====> for UP kernel
/2.4.18-3BOOT/iteraid.o => for BOOT kernel
/2.4.18-3smp/iteraid.o ==> for SMP kernel
/2.4.18-3bigmem/iteraid.o ==> for Big Memory kernel
03. You can test out the module to ensure that it works by the following
commands:
# modprobe sr_mod
# modprobe sd_mod
# insmod iteraid.o
To ensure the modules has been loaded successfully, you can check
the driver module loading status by using the "dmesg" command.
# dmesg
Then you will see the following messages. (depend on your RAID
configuration).
...
...
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 120103200 512-byte hdwr sectors (61493 MB)
..
..
04. Most likely, you will not want to type in "insmod iteraid.o" each
time you boot up the system. Therefore you must install the module
and tell the system about it. To install the module, type in the
following commands (first change directory to where the proper
iteraid.o can be loacted):
# cp -f iteraid.o /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/scsi/
# chmod 755 /sbin/mkinitrd
# mkinitrd -f --preload scsi_mod --preload sd_mod --with=iteraid
/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img 2.4.18-3
If you are using Lilo to boot your system, you also need to run lilo:
# lilo
Then reboot your system and the driver will be loaded.
05. Configure system to mount volumes when startup.
Now you can inform the system to automatically mount the array by
modifying the file /etc/fstab. E.g. You can add the following line
to tell the system to mount /dev/sda1 to location /mnt/raid after startup:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/raid ext3 defaults 0 0
2.2. **** Installing Red Hat Linux on IT8212 Controller ****
01. Prepare your hardware for installation
After you attach your hard disks to IT8212 controller, you can use IT8212
BIOS to configure your hard disks as RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0/1 or JBOD
arrays, or just use them as single disks. Remember to set the BOOT disk
when you in the IT8212 BIOS config menu.
Before installation, you must remove all the disk drives, which are not
physcially attached to IT8212 controller, from your system.
02. Check system BIOS setting
In your system bios setup menu, change Boot Sequence in such a way that the
system will first boot from CDROM, and then from SCSI. Refer to your BIOS
manual to see how to set boot sequence.
03. Prepare the driver diskette
Copy all the files under /linux/rh73/ directory to a new dos formatted
disk.
04. Install RedHat 7.3
(1) Start installing RedHat 7.3 by booting with the CDROM.
(2) On "welcome to Red Hat Linux 7.3!" installation screen, a prompted label
"boot:" will appear at the bottom of the screen. Then type in "expert"
and press enter.
(3) Then you will be asked "Do you have a driver disk?". Select "Yes".
(4) When prompted "Insert your driver disk and press "OK" to continue", insert
the driver disk in the floppy driver and then select "OK". Then the IT8212
driver will be loaded. The you will be asked if any other driver disk, press
"NO".
(5) Continue the installation as normal. You can reference the Red Hat Linux
installation guide.
3. Setup up device node for RAID Management Software.
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01. Check the /proc/devices when iteraid.o is loaded, you will see like
this:
Character devices:
1 mem
..
..
254 itedev ==> created by our driver, maybe the major number will
different from your system.
Block deices:
..
..
The 254 is a major number for itedev, then use the mknod command to
create the device node in /dev directory.
# mknod /dev/itedev c 254 0
# chmod 664 /dev/itedev
4. The note for using ATAPI CD-ROM
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01. If you want reading the data CD, just insert the disk into CD-ROM,
then mount as iso9660 file type:
# mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom/
Then you can access the disk data via /mnt/cdrom/. Remember to umount
the /mnt/cdrom/ if you want to access another one.
# umount /mnt/cdrom/
02. If you want listening the music CD, insert the disk into CD-ROM,
then you do not need to mount like the data disk. Just open the
CD Player(like KsCD in KDE..), then you can start listening the music.
Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.