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  1. Highpoint RocketRAID 2320 on Debian Howto

    Sun 28 September 2008

    Get the 'open source' driver from www.highpoint-tech.com. (It's not open source, it uses a closed binary driver.)

    http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr2320.htm

    Install the kernel headers if you haven't already

    - apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.18-6-k7
    
    - extract the downloaded driver with tar xzf
    
    - cd product/rr232x/linux
    
    - type 'make'
    

    As of 28 september 2008, this gives no errors.

    However, a 'make install' will fail. This is cause by the fact that the installation script uses mkinitrd, which is obsolete: the mkinitramfs command should be used. So we have to edit a script.

    **Update Dec 2009: the latest drivers do not need the following steps anymore.

    - vi osm/linux/install.sh
    
    - replace all occurrences of mkinitrd with mkinitramfs ( press : and type
    %s/mkinitrd/mkinitramfs/g and then :wq)
    

    Continue here:

    - Go back to the product/rr232x/linux directory and type 'make install'.
    

    That's it.

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