Readme file for RocketRAID 644L SATA Controller EFI Rom

Copyright (C) HighPoint Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
Last updated on Apr 10, 2013

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
    rr644l-efi64.rom  64-bit EFI Rom image for RR644L


Updating EFI Rom 
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    The EFI Rom can be updated via Web RAID Management Interface.

    1) Login Web RAID Management Interface.

    2) From "Physical" tab, click "Browse" under Update Firmware to select the
EFI Rom image and then click "Submit" to update the EFI Rom.

    3) Reboot system.


Booting MacOS X from RR644L adapter
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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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2013-04-10  Support RAID50.

2013-04-02  First release.
