Highpoint Rocket R750 Drivers

[Michael Andreasen]

Hi,

I have a problem with my High Point Rocket R750 HBA card.
I cannot find any drivers for the newest Proxmox 7.2

I have tries to install the driver from High Point but these are quit old driver and they dont work.
I have also installed a newer version found here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/servers/comments/un8s8p/highpoint_rocket_r750_linux_driver/
This one is also too old.

 

[rason]

Proxmox uses kernel 5.15/5.19 which your HBA card drivers do not support. In the comments of the Reddit post you've mentioned, there is a guy who wrote a patch for kernel 5.15: https://www.reddit.com/r/servers/comments/un8s8p/comment/iql9yq6/ . Have you tried it?

 

[Michael Andreasen]

Hi rason,

I get an error when adding the patch.
The error is:

root@pvetest:~/r750-2# patch -p2 r750-linux-src-v1.2.14-19_07_30.bin r750.patch
patching file r750-linux-src-v1.2.14-19_07_30.bin
Hunk #1 FAILED at 110.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file r750-linux-src-v1.2.14-19_07_30.bin.rej
patching file r750-linux-src-v1.2.14-19_07_30.bin
Hunk #1 FAILED at 342.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 352.
2 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file r750-linux-src-v1.2.14-19_07_30.bin.rej
patching file r750-linux-src-v1.2.14-19_07_30.bin
Hunk #1 FAILED at 556.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 564.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 860.
Hunk #4 FAILED at 903.
Hunk #5 FAILED at 1075.
Hunk #6 FAILED at 1155.
Hunk #7 FAILED at 1329.
Hunk #8 FAILED at 1458.
Hunk #9 FAILED at 1578.
Hunk #10 FAILED at 1644.
Hunk #11 FAILED at 1668.
Hunk #12 FAILED at 1793.
Hunk #13 FAILED at 2088.
Hunk #14 FAILED at 2175.
Hunk #15 FAILED at 2706.
15 out of 15 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file r750-linux-src-v1.2.14-19_07_30.bin.rej
patching file r750-linux-src-v1.2.14-19_07_30.bin
Hunk #1 FAILED at 18.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file r750-linux-src-v1.2.14-19_07_30.bin.rej

 

[harnish]

It is a bit late to help you, but since others are still finding this and asking me about the patch, the patch is intended to be applied to the extracted source tree, not the binary installation file. I did provide minor instructions about running the install file to extract the source then applying the patch; I might not have made that clear enough that I meant to the source code.

Here is a quick modification to those instructions:

./r750-linux-src-v1.2.14-19_07_30.bin --target r750 --noexec
then go to the extract directory, copy in the patch file and running this command:
patch -p0 r750.patch

Distributing the patched source code would probably be easiest, but I'm haven't checked to see if the code is open sourced enough for me to do that.

However, I also hope I made it clear that the driver modifications are largely untested. I mean, so far they have been running on my test machine without issue for months but I'm might have screwed something up. I'm still not confident enough to put this patch into place on my production machine when I move off CentOS 7 (though I'm running out of time before I'll have to do so). Though, I might just be paranoid. I also still need to know the driver handles failing drives that kept spewing resets (a common production problem in my array) since that code has technically been deprecated and removed from the kernel.

 

[Michael Andreasen]

Thanks for the reply.
I've gone with some newer HBA cards insted.