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[xhala_debru]

simkard, on Nov 6 2009, 02:06 PM, said:

Ok, so, do you think the Areca 1212 will work fine like your 1222 out-of-box as it is the same architecture (IOP348 & 256MB RAM) ?

thanks !

Well, I think so.

[vlad1966]

xhala_debru,

Can you tell me if your are running SL in 64-bit mode? 10.6.2?
I am considering the Areca 1222, but I only run in 64-bit mode.

Thanks!

xhala_debru, on Nov 6 2009, 03:47 AM, said:

Hi,

I'm still pleased with my Areca 1222.
My experience:
- Drivers are buit-in in Leopard and SL, so drives are accessible from a vanilla installation DVD.
- Areca sometimes delivers new drivers, but they are often following the release of the update.
So once ( I think after 10.5.6), my system was not bootable anymore as a kext had been updated by apple, fortunately, I had a backup system and put the kext from 10.5.5 back and it was Ok.
Areca delivered the new driver a few weeks later  
- You have to be carefull as now there are 32 and  64bits drivers, so if you upgrade you driver, you'll have to take the driver matching your kernel. Otherwise you'll have the "Still waiting for root device" problem.

As a rule of a thumb, keep a clone of your installed system on a cheap sata/esata or usb drive just in case.

I think all those problems are not hackintosh related.

But still, I'm pleased with it and don't regret it.

One final note: If you ever get one, don't flash it with an Efi firmware or it will not be bootable anymore.
I tried it and had to boot on the Areca cd (which is a live linux distrib with drivers) to flash it back with pc firmware.  

[vpvl66]

Maybe someone can shed some light on this SAS-related problem:

I have a Dell Precision T7400 with an on-board LSI1068E.  I have two SATA drives on this controller (no raid) + two drives on plain SATA controller.  

10.6.2 runs (mostly) fine (w/ RC4 and modified dsdt).

However, every once in a while I get this error:

12/20/09 10:44:31 PM kernel FusionMPT: WaitForInterrupt - maxWait = 30000 for SCSI Domain = 0
12/20/09 10:44:31 PM kernel ====================  Register Dump ====================
12/20/09 10:44:31 PM kernel Doorbell        = 0x40004202
12/20/09 10:44:31 PM kernel Diagnostics     = 0x00000100
12/20/09 10:44:31 PM kernel InterruptStatus = 0x80000000
12/20/09 10:44:31 PM kernel InterruptMask   = 0x00000001
12/20/09 10:44:31 PM kernel RequestFIFO     = 0xffffffff
12/20/09 10:44:31 PM kernel ReplyFIFO       = 0xffffffff

After that strange things begin to happen.  It seems all drive access starts to slow down and the system eventually becomes unresponsive, to the point where I need to reboot it.  But there are no other console errors.

Also, odd enough, the SAS drives do not show up in the System Profiler (they did in 10.5.8).  But they are usable nevertheless.

Any clues or suggestions?

[Generic George]

I'm in the process of trying to set up an Areca 1230 with an 8 drive array of Raptor150s.

I can see all the drives and create the raid in the browser interface, but after I do that, I am not seeing any sort of volume in the Finder, Disk Utility or the System Profiler. I've tried configuring the volume as both a RAID 10 and a JBOD. Neither makes any volume(s) show up.

There is an entry for the Areca card in System Profiler, but there is nothing under it like in some of the other screen shots. It only says "SCSI Parallel Domain 0". The little window below shows the firmware version. and basic info.

i'm running SL 10.6.1, I in 32 bit mode. The firmware on the card is 1.47 and I've installed the latest mac drivers (1.32).

Any suggestions?

[vlad1966]

I'm using 10.6.2 and the ArcMSR.kext shows built-in support for the ARC-1230 in S/L/E.
Not sure if 10.6.1 has it also.
Did you try using the card without drivers from Areca?
Also, if your using the card in a Hack, you should be able to use the card's BIOS to set up your RAID arrays. Have you tried that?
I'm personally considering an ARC-1222, but it's so damn expensive.

Generic George, on Jan 16 2010, 08:43 PM, said:

I'm in the process of trying to set up an Areca 1230 with an 8 drive array of Raptor150s.

I can see all the drives and create the raid in the browser interface, but after I do that, I am not seeing any sort of volume in the Finder, Disk Utility or the System Profiler. I've tried configuring the volume as both a RAID 10 and a JBOD. Neither makes any volume(s) show up.

There is an entry for the Areca card in System Profiler, but there is nothing under it like in some of the other screen shots. It only says "SCSI Parallel Domain 0". The little window below shows the firmware version. and basic info.

i'm running SL 10.6.1, I in 32 bit mode. The firmware on the card is 1.47 and I've installed the latest mac drivers (1.32).

Any suggestions?

[Generic George]

vlad1966, on Jan 16 2010, 09:55 PM, said:

I'm using 10.6.2 and the ArcMSR.kext shows built-in support for the ARC-1230 in S/L/E.
Not sure if 10.6.1 has it also.
Did you try using the card without drivers from Areca?
Also, if your using the card in a Hack, you should be able to use the card's BIOS to set up your RAID arrays. Have you tried that?
I'm personally considering an ARC-1222, but it's so damn expensive.

Yes I tried it with the built in SL drivers first, with the same results as after I updated the drivers.

I can create the array using the web interface, I just can't see it in my mac or format it once I have created it. I am currently using the EFI bios, so I can't use the bios set up and I'm dubious that would change anything. Since the card functions are fine, the problem is the Mac not seeing things. I have also tried changing it from the third x16 PCIe slot to the second. No difference.

Personally, I've not been wowed by Areca's products, the 1230 has been problematic from day one. I mean what in god's name lead them to make a card with 12 Sata ports that DOESN'T support locking SATA connectors. I finally had to hot glue the cables onto the connectors to get a reliable connection. The 1222 does use the SFF-8087 connectors which do avoid that issue at least.

[tj_jackson]

I have a supermicro motherboards and monitors the X8DA6
chip LSISAS2008 (sas2 6gb / s).

http://www.lsi.com/s...2008/index.html

http://www.supermicr.../5500/X8DA6.cfm

I installed the Snow Leopard update to 10.6.2, just do
sata controller that worked, which can be set
it, changing some code or something file
LSIFusionMPT.kext I activate?

chip network intel82574L changed some code and scripts
File IONetworkingFamily and it worked.

Does have a solution for this chip LSI also
are 8 satas / sas, it would be great to make
work here in the snow this chip

[vladthebad]

tj_jackson, good to have you aboard....

I've got supermicro X8DTH-6F with LSI2008 also.... no dice. Requires different set of drivers than the 1068e.

When apple updates the mobo on the xserve, we'll likely see 6Gb/s SAS2 using the LSI2008...... but that might be a while.... Haven't seen any BSD drivers available for it yet either.

[tj_jackson]

vladthebad, on Feb 28 2010, 12:45 PM, said:

tj_jackson, good to have you aboard....

I've got supermicro X8DTH-6F with LSI2008 also.... no dice. Requires different set of drivers than the 1068e.

When apple updates the mobo on the xserve, we'll likely see 6Gb/s SAS2 using the LSI2008...... but that might be a while.... Haven't seen any BSD drivers available for it yet either.

is a pity does not have the drivers for it, I hope to soon, after all they are 8 or satas sas unusable because of this

[podarok]

bosica, on Mar 29 2009, 06:05 PM, said:

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podarok, for a bootable raid, this link might able to help you, but u have to modify some scripts from terminal:-

http://aquamac.probo...a...&thread=613

i have never thry this but it worth a shot

pls let us know your results cause i am also interested in a cost effective sas raid system in my hack'tosh

regards

Bosica

it is "software raid" how-to
It can be done at any type of pata, sata, sas, scsi board 8)))
But I want to make it possible for boot from LSI hardware raid

[ergot]

tj_jackson, on Mar 1 2010, 01:57 PM, said:

is a pity does not have the drivers for it, I hope to soon, after all they are 8 or satas sas unusable because of this

hi I am planing to buy LSO SAS9260-4I Kit Raid 4PORT Int 6GB Sas/sata Pcie 2.0 512MB

Is this card works under SL? I have 4 SAS 300GB 15K 6g/s HD that I want to use in my system, the drives will not be OS drive

A 6g/s HD works under SL?

Thanks

[Macs4All]

I hope my request is not OT.

I'm looking for advice about a PCI-X SATA II Raid (needed just for striping - e.g. RAID 0) controller, which is not only bootable, but "installable" too (e.g. seen from install DVD as a disk good for installing OS).

I would like to build a RAID 0 system volume with two SSD drives. Given the high throughput of such devices, would a RAID 0 saturate the PCI-X controller?

Thanks for your help.

DAX

[ergot]

Vladd1966 hope you read this...
i remember you had trouble booting your LSi card with raid configuration, you booted only when you choose a single disk, I am facing the same issue with my LSI SAS3041X-R card now...
BTW, SL can boot and its working but in system profile i cannot see any controller listed...
did you find any solution??

[barnum]

Tommy, on Nov 22 2008, 08:13 PM, said:

Anyone has any exp with HP Smart Array P400/P800 ?
The chipset on the card say LSI 1078 but apparently it does not use mpt-fusion driver but cciss instead.

Hi Tommy,

do you try to use HP Smart Array P400 with snow leopard ?
Deos it work ?

regards,
Barnum

[jaymonkey]

Hey Guys,

I Know this thread is quite old, but this is where I'm at:

I have OSX Lion 10.7.3 running on my Abit IP35 Pro, all is great, no problems except for the LSI3041E-R which is a 4 port sas/sata controller with PCIe x4.
My Abit IP35 Pro has spare x4 PCIe slot so i'd thought i'd give it a go. I'm pretty much where everybody else is with LSI Chipset based hardware raid controller is.

OSX see's the card hardware ok and loads AppleLSIFusionMPT.kext.

Drives work fine in single/jbod mode but if i use them in a hardware raid mode (stripe) Disk Utility wont see the drives.
The card is still there in system report, just with no drives in the sas domain.



I've flashed the card with latest firmware and MPT BIOS, makes no difference.

Updates for this card can be found here

Ok, now the technical bit.

LSI provides an EFI BSD (Boot Services Driver) for the card, which i've downloaded, the contents of which look like this




I've figured out how to flash the card with the efi bsd, but havent done it yet as i have no idea whats going to happen,
I just have no experience with efi hardware/software interaction.

The EFI BSD for the card are the .rom files, however what are the other files ? ( efi & .lbf )
I assume that they are some sort of driver, how would you use them which Chameleon ?
Do i really need them ? I would think that they need to linked to Chameleon somehow.

Unfortunately there is no readme or helpfile with the efi update, just a mention in the flashing guide on how to the pass the efi.rom file name.

I'm willing to give this a go as i read some other people where in the same situation but didn't want to go first.
As i understand it, chameleon is effectively a simulated efi system for our hardware  platforms,
Does it suport PCIe device's that have native efi bsd's or does it only emulate recognise non efi hardware ?

So many questions,...
Any advice would be welcomed
Jay

[Klonkrieger2]

Hi!

I also have a 3041E-R. ipf means "itanium processor family". ebc means "EFI byte code" and x64 is of course 64bit. For me hardware RAID also doesn't work. And with my latest mainboard bios update, sleep wakeup is broken. The HDDs don't spin up.
Maybe i trie flashing the "integrator" firmware instead of the "raid" firmware, since raid doesn't work anyway.

[ARMAGEDDON]

I have a SAS MPT Family Controller: IBM BR10i (rebranded LSI 3082E-R):



Working from 10.4 to 10.8.3 OOB. Not bootable on my Mac Pro because of 64-bit EFI (i have 32-bit) but fully bootable at PCs.

[Rampage Dev]

ARMAGEDDON, on 14 April 2013 - 08:05 AM, said:

I have a SAS MPT Family Controller: IBM BR10i (rebranded LSI 3082E-R):



Working from 10.4 to 10.8.3 OOB. Not bootable on my Mac Pro because of 64-bit EFI (i have 32-bit) but fully bootable at PCs.

Rebranded as in flashed?

[ARMAGEDDON]

Rampage Dev, on 14 April 2013 - 08:19 AM, said:

Rebranded as in flashed?

Yes. And i must correct myself! NOW This HBA is fully bootable under any Mac Pro! I just flashed lsisasebc.rom (v.3.22.00.00) from EFI BSD package for LSI SAS 3081E-R from LSI page.