phaus Posted April 24, 2013 Share Posted April 24, 2013 kubasko: I've googled info regarding to your card. When playing with this driver, you should use 9240 firmware. Hm i am not really keen to reflash the controller. But thank you for the info anyway. I will have a look. Also thank you for your work. Interesting to actually be able to see sources of a MacOS Raid Driver :-). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1910164 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukzcry Posted April 24, 2013 Author Share Posted April 24, 2013 phausThe latest is addressed to kubasko :-) I dunno is it possible to reflash your PIKE 2008 into 2008/IMR. Interesting to actually be able to see sources of a MacOS Raid Driver :-). Here is another one: https://github.com/druga/osx-3ware Not written by me, just slightly actualized. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1910165 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamG Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 dukzcry, thanks so much for writing this kext, I never even thought there was a chance of being able to use my RAID card when running OS X. I have installed the kext and I can see my H310 PERC Adaptor in system profiler and I see the following messages from logging 5/10/13 10:06:22.000 PM kernel[0]: [sASMegaRAID] [Helper] IRQ: 40 5/10/13 10:06:22.000 PM kernel[0]: [sASMegaRAID] DMA: 64-bit, max commands: 31, Max SGE Count: 33 5/10/13 10:06:22.000 PM kernel[0]: [sASMegaRAID] 4 physical drive(s) present 5/10/13 10:06:22.000 PM kernel[0]: [sASMegaRAID] Enabled options: Physical Drive Coercion Mode Auto Rebuild GeForceSensors (pci5@0): chipset: GK104 (NVE4) bios: 80.04.09.00 5/10/13 10:06:22.000 PM kernel[0]: [sASMegaRAID] BBU not present/read error This is all good so far. I cannot however see any of the drives attached to the H310. They are not actually part of a RAID. They are all just JBOD's The other thing that may be an issue is two of the drives are 3TB NTFS and the other 2 are 480GB SSD's with Win 7 installed. Should I at least be able to see them in disk utility or am I missing something very obvious? Many thanks 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1914183 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukzcry Posted May 11, 2013 Author Share Posted May 11, 2013 GrahamG: I'm sorry to disappoint you, but physical disks passtrough isn't supported with this kext, as i don't have hw supporting such a feature to work on this. You need to create a "Virtual Disk"'s for your HDDs. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1914237 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamG Posted May 13, 2013 Share Posted May 13, 2013 No worries, that was the missing piece. converted one of the disk to a Virtual Disk and it showed up just fine. This is in no way a dissapointment, I am just so happy I can utilize the disks on the raid card. Many Thanks for producing this kext Graham Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1914873 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotbullet Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 thanks i want to confirm that intel rs2bl0808 work ^ ^ but i can't find the utility 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1920529 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukzcry Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 Hi! but i can't find the utility It's a cli one ported from FreeBSD. Type 'mfiutil' in a terminal. There is also a manpage: 'man mfiutil'. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1920531 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamG Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 Hi dukzcry, After changing my Dell H310 disks to virtual they showed up just fine and works well. In the meantime I have built another machine with an LSI 9266-8i, which I expected to work, however I see no SASMegaRAID messages at all in the log. I also tried the IO Debug version with no output. Would you expect the 9266 to work? I will load the full debug version and try that and provide the output. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1934365 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukzcry Posted July 27, 2013 Author Share Posted July 27, 2013 I have built another machine with an LSI 9266-8i, which I expected to work, however I see no SASMegaRAID messages at all in the log. I also tried the IO Debug version with no output. Would you expect the 9266 to work? Graham, The 9266 card is based on SAS2208 (aka Thunderbolt) chip which isn't supported by this driver (as stated in github repo's readme). Unfortunately, no support for this chip is planned. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1934908 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlutsky Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 My motherboard has an integrated LSI SAS2 2308 controller. Is that at all supported by this driver? Do you know if it's possible to get it working in mountain lion at this point? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1943230 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukzcry Posted September 4, 2013 Author Share Posted September 4, 2013 My motherboard has an integrated LSI SAS2 2308 controller. Is that at all supported by this driver? Do you know if it's possible to get it working in mountain lion at this point? Hi, Unfortunately, the 2308 cards (aka Fusion-MPT) aren't supported by this kext. You may have more luck with trying the AppleLSIFusionMPT.kext, which is bundled with an OS. Just don't forget to add the Device ID of your card to the plist of kext, if it's not there. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1943234 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlutsky Posted September 4, 2013 Share Posted September 4, 2013 Hi, Unfortunately, the 2308 cards (aka Fusion-MPT) aren't supported by this kext. You may have more luck with trying the AppleLSIFusionMPT.kext, which is bundled with an OS. Just don't forget to add the Device ID of your card to the plist of kext, if it's not there. Thanks for the quick reply! I actually tried that tinkering around on my own. I noticed I already had an AppleLSIFusionMPT.kext installed, so I gathered my device ID and tried adding it to the plist, although not sure if did so completely correctly. Would you happen know of any additional online resources that shows the correct way to do this properly? Or if I need to try anything else in addition to adding my device ID? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1943235 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukzcry Posted September 4, 2013 Author Share Posted September 4, 2013 Well, there are some topics on this, like: http://legacy.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=11898 Just add your DevID in proposed format (pci'VendorID','DeviceID') under IONameMatch of the AppleLSIFusionSAS dictionary. You may also try to create IOPCIMatch string key and add an exact DevID there instead: <key>IOPCIMatch</key> <string>0x00731000</string> Change with your values. The first 4 digits are Device ID, the last are Vendor ID. I'm not seeing any other useful settings in the plist, so i think it's all that you can do. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1943245 Share on other sites More sharing options...
creativerig2013 Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 Hi Mr. Dukz congratulations for you job, it is amazing!! I buy some used Dell Servers 2950 with the Perc5 and Perc6 Raid cars. today we work on a post facility with some MacPros and Pcs running osx86 can Perc 5 or 6 work on real MacPro (mid2010)?? its will be great! Best,. CR2013 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1950475 Share on other sites More sharing options...
creativerig2013 Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 Hi Mr. Dukz congratulations for you job, it is amazing!! I buy some used Dell Servers 2950 with the Perc5 and Perc6 Raid cars. today we work on a post facility with some MacPros and Pcs running osx86 can Perc 5 or 6 work on real MacPro (mid2010)?? its will be great! Best,. CR2013 I think,. assemble a Raid Setup on Pc > save on card/battery and leave to Mac any chance? thks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1950530 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukzcry Posted October 4, 2013 Author Share Posted October 4, 2013 Hi, CR2013 congratulations for you job, it is amazing!! Thank you! can Perc 5 or 6 work on real MacPro (mid2010)?? ... I think,. assemble a Raid Setup on Pc > save on card/battery and leave to Mac any chance? That's a great idea which i've always wanted to try, but since i have no personal Mac Pro, i'm unable to do this. I also hadn't heard of someone doing this before, so please, be our discoverer! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1950588 Share on other sites More sharing options...
creativerig2013 Posted October 4, 2013 Share Posted October 4, 2013 Hi, CR2013 Thank you! That's a great idea which i've always wanted to try, but since i have no personal Mac Pro, i'm unable to do this. I also hadn't heard of someone doing this before, so please, be our discoverer! Ok, I will try this! on any news, i`m posting thank you for your fast answer! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1950857 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukzcry Posted October 5, 2013 Author Share Posted October 5, 2013 Ok, I will try this! on any news, i`m posting thank you for your fast answer! P.S.: I suggest to not attach drives with capacity of above 2 Tb to PERC6 card, as there is an issue with such configuration. PERC5 should probably go ok with them though. You may consider of using just the PERC5 or either LSI 9260-based controllers, Dell H310 (these are tested for over 2 Tb usage with this kext by people) or some else instead of PERC6 ones in case when you need to use huge drives. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1950974 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH00089 Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Hello, I'm glad to see this topic. I've just wanted to build a raid system for my HAK. And I'm wondering about DELL Perc H700, is this driver support H700? Any idea about this kext on Mavericks? Thanks for any advises. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1964470 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukzcry Posted November 7, 2013 Author Share Posted November 7, 2013 is this driver support H700? Any idea about this kext on Mavericks? H700 will probably work. At least LSI 9260 works, which is based on the same chip. Mavericks supported. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1964775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH00089 Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 OK, then I'll get one and post some results. : ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1965194 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ergot Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 thanks for the great work! finally my SAS card is recognized in OSX! but attached HDD is not shown up...i read here that i will need to create a VD to make it work...any suggestions? W O R K!!! Thanks!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1970003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justroach Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 First of all; Thank you SO much for your work on this. Absolutely impressive work. The H310 I picked up worked perfectly right out of the box once I configured the VDs in the BIOS utility. That said I am unable to get the mfiutil working. When I run it I get the following: roach$ sudo mfiutil show config mfiutil: mfi_open: No such file or directory roach$ sudo find / -name mfi_open Yields no results. Looks like the installer missed something somehow? I downloaded and installed the 3810-SASMegaRAID_Installer.zip Any ideas where to go next? Not critical functionality, but if I want to do even basic monitoring of the array I'll need to get its status. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1971774 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukzcry Posted November 26, 2013 Author Share Posted November 26, 2013 ergot: Nice that you figured it out First of all; Thank you SO much for your work on this. Absolutely impressive work. The H310 I picked up worked perfectly right out of the box once I configured the VDs in the BIOS utility. That's good! Thank you. That said I am unable to get the mfiutil working. When I run it I get the following: roach$ sudo mfiutil show config mfiutil: mfi_open: No such file or directory roach$ sudo find / -name mfi_open Yields no results. mfiutil just has an obscure error reporting. Actually, mfi_open is a function and it looks for devfs nodes: crw-r----- 1 root operator 17, 0 Nov 27 00:33 /dev/mfi0 Most likely you haven't such file. If so, the driver failed to create a devfs node by some reason. In such case please see whether dmesg has "[RAID] cdevsw_add() failed" message. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1971790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH00089 Posted November 27, 2013 Share Posted November 27, 2013 Sorry for the late report. I've just been busy on Mavericks installation recently. Seems to my mobo got some issues for installing Mavericks. Anyway, I finished test the kext for DELL Perc H700 Raid card, and I got it fully WORK!! No problems occurred by far. I'll post updates if anything happens. But hopes nothing will happen. BTW, I've installed Seagate 3TB *2 and Toshiba 3TB *2 on DELL Perc H700. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285197-driver-for-lsi-megaraid-sas-family/page/4/#findComment-1971947 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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