HighPoint RocketRAID 62x Controller
- by TeXnewbie
I have the subject card recently installed in Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-31-generic x86_64). See partial lspci -vv listing below (complete listing played havoc with pre tags):
03:00.0 RAID bus controller: HighPoint Technologies, Inc. Device 0622 (rev 01)
Subsystem: HighPoint Technologies, Inc. Device 0001
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: I/O ports at 9c00 [size=8]
Region 1: I/O ports at 9800 [size=4]
Region 2: I/O ports at 9400 [size=8]
Region 3: I/O ports at 9000 [size=4]
Region 4: I/O ports at 8c00 [size=16]
Region 5: Memory at fdbff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Expansion ROM at fdbe0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities:
I followed instructions I found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RocketRaid to compile the drivers for it, and although performing the process described there seemed to work fine with no noticeable errors, when I rebooted after performing that procedure I could not boot.
During dkms steps, I noticed messages indicating that (If next boot fails, revert to initrd.img-3.2.0-31-generic.old-dkms image)
update-initramfs................
so I booted using a Ubuntu 12.10 LiveDVD and reverted to the old-dkms initrd.img as suggested above, but this failed to repair the boot problem.
Ultimately, I used https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair in Ubuntu-Secure-Remix to fix the boot problem and was able to boot normally again, but now with the newly generated initrd.img in place again (which now boots normally), when I modprobe the rr62x kernel module, I immediately get a hard crash with messages to console about a kernel paging request that seems to have caused the problem.
I've tried on multiple occasions now to use the newly built kernel module so as to allow me to use an eSATA port multiplier plugged into the card, but to no avail.
Any suggestions on fixes or workarounds (I've read that some of the HighPoint cards (2720SGL) seem to work as a host bus adapter and thus may not need a custom driver, but that seems not to be the case for mine) would be most appreciated. My goal is to use the card as described here and with software RAID mdadm utilities.
If necessary, I can hand-copy the console messages after the hard crash into a follow-up message, but I obviously can't do a cut/paste. I'll gladly provide any other details that are needed, but not sure what those would be at this point, so I'll refrain from adding other details for now.
Thanks in advance for any help.
