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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.

 

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Sword7

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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.

 

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Sword7

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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!

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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].

 

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Sword7

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  • 5 months later...

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.

 

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Sword7

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