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Mac Pro RAID Card

I'm using a Highpoint rocketraid 2314 $190

Works great in 10.6 --drivers included.

It is annoying to hot-swap though, you have to open up this program before you disconnect any drives (or you can just turn the computer off). You use the same program to schedule maintenance and stuff.

It does RAID 0,1,5, others.

I'm running a 1.5 TB RAID 5 with 4 drives (each 500GB) and a single 1TB drive just to have it external.
 
nanofrog said:
Those should go fairly quickly then. Figure ~20 - 25min or so I think, as they're faster drives than other enterprise models. :)
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I don't know what to say except it's been saying "Initializing" for 3 hours. Is it possible i did something wrong?

EDIT: I finally gave up and decided as a last straw to upgrade the firmware and restart the controller once more. Looks it's starting now. Looks like you weren't kidding about the waiting.
 
Okay it's done the initialization. When I try to install OS X, I have to format it first obviously. The problem is when I go do that I get this error:

Disk Erase Failed

Disk Erase failed with the error:

POSIX reports: The operation couldn't be completed.
Input/Output error
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alphaod said:
EDIT: I finally gave up and decided as a last straw to upgrade the firmware and restart the controller once more. Looks it's starting now. Looks like you weren't kidding about the waiting.
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OK, so you've found a way to do that.

Are you trying to boot from the array, and if so, did you load the EFI firmware (found on the disk) to the card?

alphaod said:
Okay it's done the initialization. When I try to install OS X, I have to format it first obviously. The problem is when I go do that I get this error:
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Actually, you start the installation, and format it during. Seems odd, but the OS can't even do anything with it until it's loaded the Kernel, and brings up install locations. You have to get the drivers in at this point, then format.

Hope this makes sense.

The main manual has a description that starts on pg. 104 (or so, check the Table of Contents). Also, there's another manual (.pdf only), in the \Manuals directory on the disk. It will help, so give it a read.
 
nanofrog said:
Are you trying to boot from the array, and if so, did you load the EFI firmware (found on the disk) to the card?
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No I didn't load the EFI firmware into the card. It boots up fine into the OS X Install disk; I contact Areca and they told the EFI comes on the card by default.

nanofrog said:
Actually, you start the installation, and format it during. Seems odd, but the OS can't even do anything with it until it's loaded the Kernel, and brings up install locations. You have to get the drivers in at this point, then format.

Hope this makes sense.
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How do I install the drivers then? It won't let me even format the disk; the controller shows up in Disk Utility, but that's about it. If I go to the screen where I select a disk, it only shows the other drive that's connected to my computer and not the unformatted RAID set.

nanofrog said:
The main manual has a description that starts on pg. 104 (or so, check the Table of Contents). Also, there's another manual (.pdf only), in the \Manuals directory on the disk. It will help, so give it a read.
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I've read the manual back-to-back; the only part that says anything about drivers says I need to install drivers after I've installed OS X because the installer also installs a bunch of utilities.

I will check out the other reads you have mentioned.
 
After 2 hours of working; I finally got it to work. I had to downgrade the firmware to 1.45, then upgrade to 1.46 and then install the latest SAS firmware for it to work. 10 hours wasted. :mad:
 
alphaod said:
After 2 hours of working; I finally got it to work. I had to downgrade the firmware to 1.45, then upgrade to 1.46 and then install the latest SAS firmware for it to work. 10 hours wasted. :mad:
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Hehehe, don't get mad. Those hours weren't wasted. You achieved your goal right?
 
alphaod said:
No I didn't load the EFI firmware into the card. It boots up fine into the OS X Install disk; I contact Areca and they told the EFI comes on the card by default.
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It's been over a year when I tried it, and had to at that time. The firmware revision was also older (v.1.45 IIRC).

It's since been reverted back to BOOT.ROM (BIOS boot version), and is currently running firmware v.1.47, on a PC.

alphaod said:
After 2 hours of working; I finally got it to work. I had to downgrade the firmware to 1.45, then upgrade to 1.46 and then install the latest SAS firmware for it to work. 10 hours wasted. :mad:
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Perhaps the various parts didn't match up, as the firmware extracts into multple pieces. Stepping back, then up does sometimes work as a general rule (entire set). You do have to be careful as to what you select to update because of this, and don't ignore something if you don't have to. So it's best to update ALL the parts, if possible. ;)
 
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