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LINUX Support
Highly Reliable Systems endeavors to support as many systems as possible within our resources. LINUX is considered a crucial platform by HR and we are attempting to grow our support for it. Many LINUX's may work with Silicon Image controllers on a limited basis without any additional drivers or installations. However, they probably won't support multiple drives on one eSATA channel (port multiplier technology) which High-Rely devices make heavy use of. The new drivers listed here should allow this added functionality thus allowing you access to all the High-Rely drives in your backup device (if it has more than one bay). Without these drivers, typically, the default driver will only see one bay of a multibay HR device.
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Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon
High-Rely has licensed source code from Silicon Image and has compiled and tested a driver to work with Unbuntu 7.10. Support is still very limited but we do offer more material for this version than other versions presently.
This support is for the standard Ubuntu Desktop installation. It is assumed the same driver will work for server edition and toher additons but it has not been tested. Installation of the driver maybe different as well. Presently, the driver has been compiled as a Kernel loadable object. To install the driver for Unbuntu 7.10 desk top:
- For our PCI Express controllers, Download (click here).
- Rename the file to si3124.ko.gz and gunzip the file (si3124.ko) onto the /lib/modules//kernel/drivers/ata directory.
- As root, run: "/sbin/depmod -a " to update the modules.alias file with the new module.
- On /etc/init.d, create a shell script like the following:
#! /bin/sh
rmmod satasil24
rmmod si3124
modprobe si3124
exit 0
called SIDriverChange.sh.
- run : chmod +x SIDriverChange.sh
- Make a symbolic link on /etc/rc2.d called s99XHighRely with the following command:
ln -s ../init.d/SIDriverChange.sc s99xHighRely
This should complete the driver installation. When the system is rebooted, it should replace the default driver and the new driver should allow you to see additional drives in your HR drives (if it has them). fdisk -l or lshw should show the available drives.
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