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SAS/SATA port not working on mother GA-X79S-UP5


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Hi, i buy a new hackingtosh with maverik last version.
mi motherboard, gigabyte GA-X79S-UP5 have 8 connectors SAS, 6 sata
the sata connector is ok, but i want to put 14 HARD DISK, so, i want to connect in the
SAS connector, is sata same.

when i connect the sata (in the sas connector), in the boot recognize all the disk, so i created the RAID VOLUME with 4 hard disk, here is all OK,

but when the MAVERIK OSx lunch, in the finder didnt appeare the RAID. only my SSD system OSx.

so, i think that i must update the SAS CONTROLLER for the mother, in the web of GIGABYTE said.
Intel SAS RAID Preinstall driver
Note: Press F6 during Windows setup to read from floppy.

link
http://ar.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4...

for windows not for mac, so, I HAVE NOT A FLOPPY, i copy the drivers in a flash usb, but F6 didnt work in MAC.

didnt reconoze the RAID disks.

and if i didnt do the RAID disk, and connect the disk clean to the connector SAS, the system dosent recognize the disk separately not RAID.

SOMEBODY HELP ME,
sorry my english, im from argentina.

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1. You don't understand. PC "hardware RAID" is partly managed by your motherboard BIOS. OS X doesn't work with that because that's not how real Macs work. Enabling RAID in your BIOS (AKA PC "Hardware RAID") means nothing to OS X.

 

Unless you have some kind of RAID capable expansion card that has specific OS X drivers for it, all you can do is software RAID. This can be built from Disk Utility. Of course it will not be visible when you're running Windows!

 

2. Probably because there is no driver loaded for it.

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Please read the spec of your motherboard because it is evident that you did not. You need a Xeon CPU to use those SATA/SAS ports. Failure to have a Xeon CPU installed means the ports will not work. This is very clear in the spec of the motherboard. 

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Please read the spec of your motherboard because it is evident that you did not. You need a Xeon CPU to use those SATA/SAS ports. Failure to have a Xeon CPU installed means the ports will not work. This is very clear in the spec of the motherboard. 

 

I guess people can't read what has been posted. 

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I guess people can't read what has been posted. 

 

I can read, but I can't guess his processor... 

 

Also, I didn't know that the ECC Memory limitation due to the absence of a Xeon processor

could affect also the SAS functionality...

 

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