Sword7 Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Hello folks, I recently installed new Highpoint RocketRAID 644 card into my PC. I searched for Mac OSX drivers and found one. I tried to install a drive on Mac OS X 10.6.6 operating system. Then I restarted system but it happened nothing. I did not see any activity in boot time (option -v) but it just mentioned about PCI 4 (ID 0644). Does anyone have any experience with that RR644 card and get it working so far? On Windows 7 system, everything worked fine. Thanks! Sword7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade5502 Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Hello, also have an Highpoint Rocket raid card. Mine was recogniced OOB but is also an other card You can type in Terminal to check if the kext is loaded kextstat | grep HighPoint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sword7 Posted February 21, 2011 Author Share Posted February 21, 2011 Ok, I checked kextstat and did not see any rr64x.kext in that list. I tried to kextload it but it said that already loaded or successfully loaded. I tried to kextunload it but it was unable unload it because it has instances. Feb 20 19:17:49 localhost kernel[0]: Adapter (1103:644) at PCI 4:0:0 (Jan 20 2010) Also, I noticed that HighPoint RAID managemented had started in system.log but I can't access http://localhost:7402. Feb 20 19:18:03 xxx-Mac-Pro com.apple.SystemStarter[18]: Starting HighPoint RAID Management Server Feb 20 19:18:03 xxx-Mac-Pro root[89]: Starting SATARaid5Daemon Feb 20 19:18:03 xxx-Mac-Pro root[93]: Stopping SATARaid5Daemon Feb 20 19:18:03 xxx-Mac-Pro com.apple.SystemStarter[18]: 2011-02-20 19:18:03 /Library/StartupItems/Hptsvr/Hptsvr-alive: Starting hptsvr_exit.log: 2011-02-21 12:20:00 Server exited with result: 255 2011-02-21 12:21:50 Server exited with result: 255 2011-02-21 12:23:41 Server exited with result: 255 2011-02-21 12:25:31 Server exited with result: 255 2011-02-21 12:27:22 Server exited with result: 255 2011-02-21 12:27:22 The same error '255' happened 5 times in a row, not restarting! Attempt to unload rr64x.kext (in kernel.log): Feb 21 12:38:31 xxx-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: Can't unload kext com.highpoint-tech.kext.rr64x; classes have instances: Feb 21 12:38:31 xxx-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: Kext com.highpoint-tech.kext.rr64x class RR64x_AbstractController has 1 instance. Feb 21 12:38:31 xxx-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: Kext com.highpoint-tech.kext.rr64x class RR64xController has 1 instance. Thanks, Sword7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blade5502 Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 I've downloaded the Driver package and noticed that there are 3 different driver packages Open the package with pacifist and try an other driver perhaps that helps. My card works with stock Apple drivers so i had no problems EDIT: Seems that the other 2 drivers are for Tiger and Leopard. Maybe its a problem with PCI Adresses and/or DSDT related - have you tryed the card in an other PCI-E Slot? You can also put the card in an x16 slot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sword7 Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 Ok, There is only one empty PCIe 16x slot that I put RR644 card into. I installed Mac OS X 10.6.3 with [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]/[url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url]. Thanks, Sword7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sword7 Posted July 31, 2011 Author Share Posted July 31, 2011 All folks, Good news for OS X Lion support! They now has native drivers. When I upgraded to OS X Lion 10.7 operating system, it finally recongized that RocketRAID 644 card and all disk drives through that card! You do not have to install rr644 drivers because OS X Lion already has native drivers. That is all. Thanks, Sword7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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