HowTo install hpt374 raid driver in debian
February 22nd, 2008 by lukavOver the year I had to compile and install several times hpt374 driver for the HighPoint IDE controller.
Although the hardware is very old and probably nobody use it anymore I decide to put down this howto, for anyone interested.
The last time we’ve upgraded debian to etch with kernel 2.6.18-6-686 so the instruction will assume this kernel version.
First install the kernel-headers package
apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.18-6-686
then download the driver in this case hpt374-opensource-v2.17-1114
extract to some folder, for example: /usr/src/hpt374-2.6.18-6-686/
compile the driver
make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-6-686
you should now have hpt374.ko. Copy this file in the kernel modules directory
cp hpt374.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-686/kernel/drivers/ide/pci/
We need to populate the modules dependencies
depmod -r 2.6.18-6-686
add hpt374 to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules if it is not already there
echo hpt374 >> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
update the initrd image so the module gets loaded on system start up
update-initramfs -u -k 2.6.18-6-686
And thats it. You should now be able to reboot and use the new kernel with the raid
P.S. I’ve wrote this in a hurry, so I’ve may missed something.
Posted in EN, Tech | 1 Comment »
September 3rd, 2009 at 16:38
Well done m8! Sure thingy it is an old piece of hardware, but there always are people out there who still run this old stuff. – Thanks for your howto!