Readme file for RocketRAID 4320 SAS Controller EFI BIOS

Copyright (C) HighPoint Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
Last updated on Nov 13, 2008

Please review this file for important information about compatibility issues and
differences in operation that were discovered after our product manuals were
created. In case of conflict among various parts of the documentation set, this
file contains the most current information.

Note: The latest firmware and product documentation will be available for
download at http://www.highpoint-tech.com

Files Listing
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    readme-efi.txt    This file
    rr4320-efi.blf    EFI BIOS image (both EFI 32-bit and 64-bit included)


Updating EFI BIOS 
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    You can install the EFI BIOS to RR4320 adapter via its web management
    interface (either through in-band connection or out-of-band connection).
    
    NOTE: If you use in-band connection, please make sure you have updated the
    RR4320 driver and in-band management software for MacOS X to v1.0.1 or later.
    The first version of in-band management software will cause the adapter
    fail to boot after firmware update.


Booting MacOS X from RR4320 adapter
=====================================

Currently MacOS X can not be directly installed to arrays on RocketRAID adapter.
To boot the system from an array, you need to clone an installed system to the
array.

You can follow these steps to make a bootable array on Mac Pro:

    1) Booting from an existing MacOS X system.

    2) Install RocketRAID adapter driver and web RAID management software.

    3) Setup an array in the web management interface.

    4) Run MacOS X Disk Utility and create a new volume on the array. The volume
       will be used as new boot volume.

    5) Clone the Mac OS X system volume to the new volume on HPT array. 
       A suggested clone utility is Carbon Copy Cloner:
       http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

    6) Open MacOS X System Preferences window and select "Startup Disk". Select
       the new volume as startup disk and click "Restart".

    7) MacOS X will boot from the array. You can remove the old system volume
       if it is no longer required.


Revision History
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2008-11-13  Put 64-bit EFI drivers before 32-bit ones in the image file
2008-10-13  Add workaround for PCI-e link width issue on Intel 5400 MCH
2008-06-06  Fix I/O error on buffers with unaligned address
2008-04-11  First release
