I haven't updated my blog in forever and I'm probably going to abandon my homebrew static client generated site for something like Mephisto at some point but I haven't had time to make the transition.
In the meantime, I'd like to save people some pain and document the steps I have go through to upgrade my Highpoint RocketRaid 2220 on Linux. I installed the driver a while ago and don't remember the exact steps for that, so this is just what I do to upgrade. I wrote a little shell script:
#! /bin/sh -v
# Update this version every time you upgrade.
VER=2.6.15-29-686
# To update the highpoint driver:
# 1) Download latest highpoint driver from:
#
# http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS_Driver/rr222x/Linux/
#
# 2) Patch driver by changing wrong kernel #ifdefs in osm/linux/os_linux.c
# KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,15) -> KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,16)
# Disable sata_mv.ko by moving it to a new directory. This driver
# conflicts with highpoint driver. I don't know if this is the
# "right" way to do this, but it works.
sudo mkdir -p /lib/modules/${VER}.disabled
sudo mv /lib/modules/${VER}/kernel/drivers/scsi/sata_mv.ko /lib/modules/${VER}.disabled/
# Make sure kernel headers are installed
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-${VER}
# Make new hpt driver:
cd ~jbeda/sources/rr222x-linux-src-1.07/product/rr2220/linux/
make KERNELDIR=/lib/modules/${VER}/build
sudo make install KERNELDIR=/lib/modules/${VER}/build
# make a new ramfs
# mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-27-686 /lib/modules/2.6.15-27-686
sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-${VER}
Good luck. I hope this helps people out there that are stuck with this thing. I'm still looking for a good cheap solution to host lots of SATA drives on Linux. Port multipliers are there and aren't as cheap as they should be. The driver situation is pretty dire and there aren't that many non RAID (fake or not) >4 ports out there. I haven't tried any SAS cards though -- perhaps the situation there is better. I'm also running an LSI MegaRAID SATA 300-8XLP with the megaraid driver. It wasn't as cheap but at least it works with a true open driver.