Hi There,

Just a quick step by step manual on how to compile the kernelmodule for the Highpoint Rocketraid Controller 2720 under Debian 7.

• wget "http://www.highpoint-tech.com/BIOS_Driver/rr272x_1x/Linux/RR272x_1x-Linux-Src-v1.4-120424-1752.tar.gz"
• tar xfz "RR272x_1x-Linux-Src-v1.4-120424-1752.tar.gz"
• cd product/rr272x/linux
• make
• copy rr272x_1x.ko ...

Situation

Well, just got 2 harddisks in for recovery. The PC manufacturer apparently decided to have 2 harddisks in a RAID0, but now since one of the harddisks failed, there was no way to simply get the data back. As you might know, RAID0 sucks! If you only have one ...

I just recently started to play around with software RAID's under linux, and I thought I'll share a piece of code to watch the progress of a raid-rebuild.

``` {.lang:sh .decode:true} || user@workstation ~ || while [ 1 ] ; do clear ; cat /proc/mdstat ; sleep 5; done

Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1 ...