HELP!! HighPoint RocketRAID 4322

Hi guys,
I am purchasing a new system (Two 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon) and I would like to know if the HighPoint RocketRAID 4322...
1. is completely compatible with this system?
2. is capable of controlling 4 WD VelociRaptor 300GB (internal)?
3. what are the external ports? Appears to be 2x eSata and 1x ethernet, is this correct?
OR
Should I just get the Caldigit raid card to be sure to be sure
Thanks in advance,
ozmo

Not sure if you have found solution to your problem... but just in case...
Had a number of disappointments with the RR2322...
The biggest is the sleep issue... but it does seem to clear itself up with the EFI. I'm sure the BIOS works when a PC is sleeping, but on my mac it meant that the drives would disconnect when the machine came back to from sleep and had trouble accessing the WebGUI.
Why would they not mention the EFI - I have no idea. Having to go to the Chinese site to find the EFI for my card, no instructions, no documentation - its just useless. The US site and the Mac site does not list the EFI at all for my card model.
In any event, found it by mistake and updated to the 64bits and it seemed to have worked. I'm still not happy with the software support. The site and marketing material is all deceiving (and the documentation almost non-existant). The card supports SMART (but they don't say its web based only which is useless). The card supports hot-swap (for PC only). The card supports SMTP messages (as long as its not using authenticated SMTP - good luck in finding one unless you run your own server), the errors on the event list are useless.
Then I was going to try to address some of the short comings (which basically concentrates everything on the webgui, so no log on the console, no system SMART, no hot-swap etc) by using the CLI and creating my own scrips and command... well - HighPoint does offers CLI (Linux, BSD and Windows) but none for the Mac.
A very under-supported card... which I was very surprised as people seem to like them for OS X but no one talks about all the basic shortcomings and basic instructions to use these cards. I'm about to regret the purchase but I'll see if I can scrip some commands interacting with the web interface to make it work.
So, yes - install the EFI and that should at least help you a bit (I hope - it did me for at least one issue).
RM

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Two HighPoint RocketRAID 4322 Cards in 2009 Mac Pro

I'd like to attach 16 VelociRaptor 2.5" drives in two 8-drive array configurations to my Mac Pro. I'm considering two of the following compact tower enclosures as I'm trying to minimize footprint:
http://www.aicipc.com/ProductDetail.aspx?ref=MiniBOD%20series%20-%208-bay%20Towe r
with two of the HighPoint Technologies RocketRAID 4322 cards.
http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/rr4322.htm
Each enclosure only contains 8 drives. Two primary SFF-8088 mini-SAS cable connections are supported on the enclosure, one cable per 4 drives. The enclosure doesn't have a built-in SAS expander to support additional drives.
Will two 4322 cards in a single Mac Pro work?
Any suggestions on a better solution. I'm processing very large files and need the spindle count to maximize throughput (MB/s).
Thanks.

I'd like to attach 16 VelociRaptor 2.5" drives in two 8-drive array configurations to my Mac Pro. I'm considering two of the following compact tower enclosures as I'm trying to minimize footprint:
http://www.aicipc.com/ProductDetail.aspx?ref=MiniBOD%20series%20-%208-bay%20Towe r
Hi,
Unfortunately, it is very possible that this configuration will NOT work. The VelociRaptor is an odd size and may not fit the backplane properly in this enclosure. In addition, the AIC enclosure uses an external power adapter that will take up more room and typically be less reliable than an enclosure with an internal power adapter.
The other issue is that while you may be able to get two RR 4322 cards to work (not tested) they certainly will NOT work together as a single RAID set. The two cards will only work individually. It would be nice if the two cards could be bridged but that feature is not available for RR4322 Mac users.
With all of these possible problems you may be better off going with a tested solution like the RR4322 with the Enhance RS16 JS SAS expander enclosure.
http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/highpoint/4322/
http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/enhance/rs16js/
Have fun!

CalDigit's RAID Card or Highpoint's RocketRaid 4322

hi Everyone,
Are we having fun now or what eh? Congrats to Apple on it's Nehalem MacPro release! While a test of our patience, the wait was a fine process full of joyous anticipation!
I'll be placing my order shortly, and have decided that the 8-core 2.93ghz with Radeon's 4870 is the one for me. My primary softwares, 3D CAD (Vectorworks) and a rendering program (Artlantis) that I use for making concept presentations, are processor intensive. Moving up from my long serving PowerMac G5 is going to be quite the thrill, but I need some help please. It's about hard drive controller cards...
Six months ago, after doing my due diligence in the RAID research department, the CalDigit RAID Card was the front runner. Now, having read recent reviews, it looks as though I should purchase Highpoint's RocketRaid 4322 card. Price-wise, the Caldigit's $100 less expensive plus there's a $100 rebate deal on 'til the end of April ( http://www.caldigit.com/news/CalDigitVRShippingPR.pdf ) making it actually $200 less than the 4322.
Not that money's no object, (far from it actually!) but, when it comes to this kind of decision, I don't let price hold too much weight. Quality pays and, in this case, what I want to purchase is the best hard drive controller card for my purposes and for this machine,
so...
Which card should I buy? Speed and stability/dependability are the primary goals.
Setup-wise, my plan, at this point, is to run WD Velociraptor 150GB drives in the first two bays. These two drives would be set on RAID 0. On this set, I will install the OS, all my applications, and a few primary data files. In the third and fourth drive bays, I will be installing two Velociraptor 300GB drives also set up as a two-drive RAID 0 set. On this set, I will keep all of my data files.
I think this will be a good way to go. I have three external drives that I use for backup and I occasionally burn discs of my data files (which I'll happily be able to do onto Blu-ray discs using the second optical drive bay's soon to be installed Blu-ray RW drive. Yummy!). Thanks to all the backup, and having an eDrive, I comfortable having everything on RAID 0. Running this G5 on a similar configuration has been fantastic. No problems and great, great speed, especially for this, a nearing five-year-old computer.
I'd appreciate everyone's thoughts here. Which RAID card will you buy or have you bought?
Oh, and just what's the difference between Highpoint's 4322 and their 4320? Reading through the specs at the Highpoint website was entirely unhelpful!
I look forward to hearing from you.
thanks in advance,
yours,
JimQ,
Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada

Maybe this is why Highpoint's two top cards are getting more light on them?
Hi,
From my view, using the Mac Pro internal bays with any 3rd party RAID card is a disaster waiting to happen. Anytime Apple makes a change in the hardware or the OS it can easily cause the card to no longer be able to be installed or work properly. In addition, it is possible that some System updates may not like to be installed on RAID boot volumes and I bet the new Snow Leopard version of Mac OS X will break most current 3rd party RAID drivers.
When the boot system is used with an internal 3rd party RAID driver the possibility of a problem occurring when integrating a Mac OS X update rises exponentially. Having the internal Mac Pro drive bays connected to the motherboard gives the user a fighting chance
The reason I was never excited about the CalDigit RAID card is that it uses a slow, entry level, Intel RAID processor. Even with 16 hard disks connected the card is limited to less than 500MB/sec. In addition, it does not support SAS. The slow processor keeps the performance down even though the HDs can provide much higher performance. A 16 channel card with a slow processor is like a sports car with a 4 cylinder 70 horse power engine. It just doesn't make sense to me.
In contrast, the HighPoint RR 4322 includes the high powered Intel IOP 348 1.2GHz (1200MHz) processor with embedded SAS functionality. This card provides two mini-SAS ports (8-channels) that can provide almost twice the performance with eight hard disks in RAID 0. Using RAID 0, AMUG recorded 801MB/sec write and 748MB/sec read performance with the RR 4322. With a RAID 5 configuration 665MB/sec. performance was recorded. With RAID 6, 580MB/sec. was available. The HighPoint RR 4322 provides amazing performance and SAS compatibility. If performance is important, there is no contest between these two cards.
You can read more on the RR 4322 here:
http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/highpoint/4322/
The RR 4322 also supports SAS expanders. This allows the HighPoint card to support up to 128 disks with the use of SAS expanders. AMUG tested the Enhance RS16 JS SAS expander enclosure with the RR 4322 and was able to achieve amazing performance with 16 hard disks. Even RAID 6 provided performance as high as 746MB/sec. write and 894MB/sec. read.
http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/enhance/rs16js/
Using an external RAID with the RR 4322 provides great performance when needed and the ability to turn the RAID off when not required. Being able to turn off the RAID when not needed saves energy and provides for longer RAID disk life.
If you do find a system conflict with a Mac OS X update it is much easier to boot up from that backup disk that was created before the update than if the RAID is the internal boot disk
The HighPoint RR 4320 is the internal version of the RR 4322. While it is a great deal at newegg for $329, I would always prefer the external version given a choice. Especially since it sounds like Apple may have altered the internal Mac Pro SATA bay connections.
Have fun!

H77MA-G43 with Highpoint Rocketraid 640 - Not posting

Hi All,
I recently brought a H77MA-G43 and built a system running VMware ESXi which runs fine. However when I try to add a Highpoint Rocketraid 640 which works on my main PC (Asus M/B) the system wont post. I've tried numerous variations of the Bios settings for the Highpoint card but cannot find anything on the H77MA-G43 bios which would get the card working.
I have put a HP P212 Raid card on the mainboard which works fine (except for VMdirectpath I/O (works but the VM's don't see the HP card properly, I can troubleshoot this myself)) but I really do need the Highpoint functioning for the additional SATA 6Gbs ports.
A previous bios (v1.3) included support for the Rocket 620X1 Gen2 card so I thought an update to the latest bios 1.4 would help but it did not.
Does anyone have any experience or ideas on troubleshooting this sort of problem or how I go about requesting this issue to be resolved or added to a future Bios?
Cheers,

Quote from: andryrus on 17-September-12, 19:40:26
Raximus
Hi,
I've got similar MB (Z77) and P212
but Raid is not working - i see the P212 initialization during boot and nowhere else - windows, linux, ESXi. (https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=161815.0)
Don't think this is a RAM or HDD problem...
What Cpu do you use?
Hi Andyrus,
I was planning to update this forum on my ESXi antics on my motherboard and good thing I did otherwise I would never had replied.
The CPU I have is a i5 3550, my HP P212 has a cache module but no BBWC. 16GB RAM installed (I'm at work so I cant check the brand).
http://ark.intel.com/products/65516/Intel-Core-i5-3550-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_70-GHz
ESXi detects it under storage controllers and I could use it without issue. I always had arrays configured when booting, do you?
I would try the 'How To Contact MSI' link in this thread to contact MSI, they turned around a beta bios very quickly (be warned the English isn't great but they are helpful).
Raximus

Drives won't wake with HighPoint RocketRAID Quad eSATA 6Gb/s For Mac 644

Just setting up and configuring a new 2010 12 Core Mac Pro 2.93Ghz with a HighPoint RocketRAID Quad eSATA 6Gb/s For Mac 644, and I've run into a problem. Currently, I have four WD WD600 Velociraptor drives hooked up to the card, functioning as individual drives (haven't tried RAID as of yet). OS 10.6.4, and version 1.0 of the Highpoint software.
Anyway, the card seems to work well, but I'm having big problems when I put the computer to sleep. If it's only asleep for a short time, the drives hooked to the RocketRaid card will be there. If the sleep time is longer (a few hours or more), they will no longer be in the Finder. When I wake the computer, I do hear the drives hooked to the card spin up, but they're not there. I've tried powering the drive case on and off, and that does not bring them up. Also tried unplugging and re-plugging them, and that also does not work. Going into "more info" in About this Mac shows that the card is still there. The only way to get the drives back, though, is to restart the computer. This is a drag for me, because I use my system mainly with Logic Pro, and load huge banks of samples that take a long time to load.
This card is supposed to be able to go to sleep. I wonder why it won't. I've sent multiple support requests to Highpoint, with no response. I'd sure like to find an eSATA 4 port card that would sleep. Unfortunately, there aren't many eSATA 3.0 6Gb/s options on the market yet.
Any input, advice, suggestions would be welcome.

Sonnet E4P (I have one in old Mac Pro)
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/archives/feb10/022510.html#S26630
Unhappy with E4P
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11163806#11163806
Sonnet does not endorse every drive with their products, harkens back to SCSI which some people assume a drive is a drive is a drive in spite of persistent problems, and, there have always been "bugs" in Apple's AHCI and drivers.
would suggest the FirmTek SeriTek/2ME4-E for the Apple Mac Pro. You can view its performance tables with various configurations here: http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-2me4-e/perform/
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11163806#11163806
To quote FirmTek:
The ability to hot swap hard disks is typically a function of the eSATA controller driver. I found the Apple Built-in AHCI driver may not always support hot swap with all SATA enclosure types. If you find this is the case with your particular dock then a restart may be required.
The benefit of the built-in Apple AHCI driver is that it provides instant support for several SATA controllers. The downside to the AHCI driver is that it has limitations and may not work properly or at all with some configurations. In addition, if the AHCI driver does not work for you the company that sold the controller usually cannot correct the issue as the AHCI driver was not built by them.
To address these issues FirmTek designed a driver for the 6G based SeriTek/e6G that allows it to properly hot swap with direct connect and Oxford 936/946 based enclosures. In addition, the new FirmTek driver also supports port multiplier based enclosures like the SeriTek/5PM. A dedicated driver can provide extra features that may not be available with the AHCI driver.
A 4-port card for direct connect, a 2-port card for what? PM case? SSDs?
http://firmtek.stores.yahoo.net/sata2me4e.html
http://firmtek.stores.yahoo.net/satae6g.html
Another user was totally unhappy with the HP RR and was looking for ideas, I gave him a bunch, but never returned to follow up on their thread. So no idea or help there. I think CalDigit to drive 8/12-bay using mini-SAS interface.
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HighPoint RocketRAID 2322 v1.1.1 and OS X Yosemite?!

Help! I have no access to my 32 TB archive, I can not install the driver for the HighPoint RocketRAID 2322 v1.1.1 under OS X Yosemite?!

Sorry for taking forever to reply...
I've shared the old one at:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3627431/HighPointRR-KEXT-4.0.0/HighPointRR_4 .0.0.kext.tar.gz
First off, anyone using it is doing so at their own peril, and should be familiar with recovery procedures like rebuilding the system cache if this makes their system unbootable.
To install the older 4.0.0 HighPointRR.kext...
Open ''Terminal.app' and sudo into the root user with 'sudo -i'
Extract the contents of the archive linked above to: /Library/Extensions. It should overwrite the newer version that comes bundle with OS X Yosemite. You may want to copy the newer version somewhere safe before extracting the older one into place.
Ensure that the newly replaced '/Library/Extensions/HighPointRR.kext' is owned by 'root:wheel'. (If doing this from the CLI in Terminal, be sure to specify the recursive '-R' flag, so that it recurses down into the package when changing ownership.)
In case this causes your partition to become unbootable, make sure you have an accessible 'Rescue Partition', or have a bootable USB key with Terminal.app on it.
Reboot. If all goes well, the older 4.0.0 driver should load, and your devices should be accessible.
To verify that it loaded, you should go into System Information and check both the 'Hardware / PCI Cards' to see if the driver is now loading, and the 'Software / Extensions' and look up 'HighPointRR' and verify that it's version 4.0.0 and looking correct (Ie, dependencies resolved, signed, etc...
If there's something wrong, I believe that the 'Software / Extensions' view will tell you what the problem is. (Ex. whether the permissions are correct, since if they aren't the kernel will refuse to load the kext...)
If the partition becomes unbootable (I've only had this happen to me once), it is probably necessary to reset the kernel extension cache. This is where the Rescue Partition or the Bootable USB Key comes in. Best to Google for the exact process. But, from memory I believe that all this involves is booting into the Rescue Partition/USB Key, opening terminal, and touching both of the extension directories...
'touch /System/Library/Extensions && touch /Library/Extensions'
Hope that helps.

HighPoint RocketRAID 3522 RAID card Crisis

Yesterday I installed a brand new HighPoint RocketRAID 3522 card in a 2008 MacPro3,1 running Mac OS X 10.5.8. Connected to this card is an Enhance Technology EnhanceBOX E4 MS containing 4 1TB Western Digital RE3 (WD1002FBYS-02A6B0; Revision 03.00C06 ) also brand new.
The HighPoint 3522 Storage Health Inspector shows all 4 disks with Status OK and 0 Bad Sectors. The Array was created after initializing all 4 disks and is now RAID 5 with 3.00 TB in Write Through mode with Block Size of 16k and Sector Size of 512BHPT and its status is Normal.
The Crisis is that I have lost access to the RAID twice in the past 24 hours. The first time I was copying files to the RAID and noticed that 20 directories disappeared. I ran DiskWarrior I received the following Error Message: Disk warrior can not rebuild the disk. Error 2351,-36. Please mount the preview and check your files.
I contacted Alsoft Tech Support and received the following Reply: There is a physical problem with this RAID. Likely, one of the hard drives is starting to physically fail. Run DiskWarrior again.
At the Report, click the Preview button and utilize the Preview function to copy your files to another hard drive.
I followed his instructions and copied the data back to a single 1TB drive.
Believing that the problem was just a fluke, I went into maintenance and deleted the Array. I reinitialized all 4 disks and created a new Array. Went into Disk Utility and created 1 Partition and formatted it Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Once this was done, I copied the data back to the RAID.
To ensure that everything was OK, I opened Disk Utility and ran Verify Disk with the resulting errors: "Invalid catalog record type. Volume Check failed. Error: Filesystem verify or repair failed."
I then ran DiskWarrior again and it shows up as "Unknown Disk". The only option I had was to rebuild the directory and on Step 6: Overlapped files detected: 4. Four hours later I came back to the MacPro and the system was frozen. I rebooted and restarted DiskWarrior and is once again 50% through Rebuilding Directory in Step 6: Overlapped files detected: 4.
Console messages from Diskwarrior, which has also been reported to Alsoft are:
com.apple.launchd[226] ([0x0-0x3d03d].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[641]) Exited: Terminated
[0x0-0x41041].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[653] DiskWarriorRebuildServer: Couldn't open 'rc' file, error '2'
[0x0-0x41041].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[653] DiskWarriorRebuildServer: Error 1 executing '/sbin/kextunload',
[0x0-0x41041].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[653] kextunload: unload kext /Applications/Utilities/DiskWarrior.app/Contents/MacOS/DiskWarriorPreview.kext failed
[0x0-0x41041].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[653] DiskWarrior App: Error resolving disk with VM pages. (-43)
[0x0-0x41041].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[653] DiskWarrior App: Time Machine (disk1s2) contains a Time Machine database
[0x0-0x41041].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[653] Wired PhysicalMemory = 928.28 MB
[0x0-0x41041].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[653] Active PhysicalMemory = 917.98 MB
[0x0-0x41041].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[653] Inactive PhysicalMemory = 127.85 MB
[0x0-0x41041].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[653] PhysicalMemory Used = 1.93 GB
[0x0-0x41041].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[653] Free Physical Memory = 12.06 GB
[0x0-0x43043].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[675] DiskWarriorRebuildServer: Couldn't open 'rc' file, error '2'
[0x0-0x43043].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[675] DiskWarriorRebuildServer: Error 1 executing '/sbin/kextunload',
[0x0-0x43043].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[675] kextunload: unload kext /Applications/Utilities/DiskWarrior.app/Contents/MacOS/DiskWarriorPreview.kext failed
[0x0-0x43043].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[675] DiskWarrior App: Error resolving disk with VM pages. (-43)
[0x0-0x43043].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[675] DiskWarrior App: Time Machine (disk1s2) contains a Time Machine database
[0x0-0x43043].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[675] DiskWarrior App: Unknown disk: 'disk5s2', sectors: 5859426224, size: 512, type: 'hfs'
[0x0-0x43043].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[675] Wired PhysicalMemory = 926.81 MB
[0x0-0x43043].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[675] Active PhysicalMemory = 890.04 MB
[0x0-0x43043].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[675] Inactive PhysicalMemory = 131.33 MB
[0x0-0x43043].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[675] PhysicalMemory Used = 1.9 GB
[0x0-0x43043].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[675] Free Physical Memory = 12.08 GB
[0x0-0x43043].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[675] DiskWarrior App: Rebuilding disk device: disk5s2
[0x0-0x43043].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[675] DiskWarrior App: disk5s2 Extents, Catalog and Attributes tree sizes total 230 MB.
[0x0-0x43043].com.alsoft.diskwarrior[675] DiskWarrior App: Attributes file is severely damaged.
I have a RAID that I can't access, uncertain about which piece of hardware is the culprit as I haven't found a smoking gun.
Thus, I need to ask for help from those with more knowledge and experience as to what recommended steps should I follow to ensure this issue gets resolved and I don't loose any further data.

I read your post with great interest, because a similar thing happened to me. My Enhance E8-MS RAID would just freeze, and double-clicking my drive icons would result in a blank window. I couldn't reboot without holding the Mac power button down. I eventually eliminated suspects and determined my 3522 was bad. That was just the beginning. The tech support people at Highpoint are morons. They asked for an RMA three times on three different days. They could only manage one correspondence per day. I sent in one for each request, after the third time, I sent 20 in to make sure they got it. I asked to speak to a human, and that request was ignored. Then they asked me for a copy of my invoice three times on three different days. They got 20 copies of that, too, just to keep them from asking again. They took another day to ask for my serial number. Finally, after TWO WEEKS of this lunacy, they issued me an RMA. Then, three days after they signed the Fedex receipt for my card, they shipped me a replacement. I'll be getting it the day after tomorrow.
I will have been without my HBA for three weeks.
Who can run a business dependent on a RAID with this poor level of service?
I would be ready to go ballistic if I hadn't had a friend with a spare 3522 that he loaned me. This proved that my card was bad, because when I put his card in, my problems vanished. So, Highpoint Tech Support was absolutely worthless at helping me diagnose my problem. I gave them all the info they needed on my first message to them. But, they had to jack me around for two weeks before they'd take any action.
I wish I could stop doing business with them for life, but curiously enough, they seem to make the most fully featured and easy to use HBA for the Mac, based on my cursory research into LSI, Adaptec, ATTO, and Areca.
But, based on our experience, yours and mine, it appears their quality control leaves a lot to be desired.
If my card goes bad again, I guess I'll just buy another one and have it shipped overnight, rather than wait another three weeks. Then, I'll have a spare. I don't trust their products, or their employees.
Clearly, I'm upset about this and venting. And, I don't have any advice for any would-be customers of HighPoint, other than "heads up." Until somebody else does a better job of supporting Mac, HPT may be a necessary evil.

HighPoint RocketRaid 6GB/s eSATA not launching my RAID 0 drive

Hi there,
I have a Mac Pro 3,1 (2008) with 8 cores, 10GB RAM. In 2011, I bought the HighPoint RocketRaid 6GB/s eSATA for Mac RAID card (model number 644MLF I believe). It has 4 eSATA ports. The RAID 0 was initialized with four 1TB external hard drives (WD Caviar Black in Startech eSATA / USB enclosures). I'm running Lion operating system (whatever the latest 10.7.x).
Unfortunately the RAID management is software based and I was alwasy suspecious about that because Disk Utility doesn't do much with setting things up or manipulating, restoring, etc.
Anyway, I was running smoothly. One time I had a fail to launch after the computer accidentally went to sleep mode. I restarted it and after a few attempts it worked.
I wasn't happy with this kind of odd behaviour but I thought I would never let it sleep again. But about a month ago it happened again and whatever I did, I couldn't make it to launch my RAID drive. It makes that sharp continuous beep sound and the system becomes very unstable unless I turn off the drives or even take the RocketRAID card out of the system.
The problem is I had it for RAID 0 since I was working on whole bunch of uncompressed full HD footage and I needed to maximize the smooth image. I thought eventually I buy a 4 TB drive as a backup connect it to my Time Machine and it backs up the RAID 0 that way but 4TB drives are (were) not out when I did the setup and I was too optimistic running my assets without backup in this time period.
Anyway, long story short, I'm now stuck in a situation that I don't want to completely re-initialize my drives because most probably I will loose my content (anyone that knows this please comment). I went to Apple store, they tested the drives and said they are fine, and they can't do anything with the RocketRaid card since it is a third party hardware!!! So someone tells them why do you sell it then!!??
I tried to get a hold of HighPoint tech support but they don't answer any tech calls. I filled out a web based support form. I doubt they can give me direction by emails back and forth.
Anyone had that experience before? Did you manage solving the launch problem? How?
Thanks for your help.

buy some wd black 2TB drives for soare and backup, and even 3TB greens.
so you are using Apple DU software RAID and initialized with Lion is fine.
the drive enclosure is _______ ?
$140 http://www.softraid.com is a good product and feature set, can also take-over an Apple array. demo and manual, and email support at softraid.com they do respond in spades, and makes it worth buying if it sounds good.
HPT support is iffy, it has new 10.7.5 driver? or do you need to dual boot and get out your 10.6.8 system clone? and SL has no issues but 10.7.x on 2008/3, 1 doesin terms of power mgmt. you could try another lion clean install to test but some had to go back to 10.6.8.

Highpoint Rocketraid Driver seems to kill boot drives

I recently bough a new Rocketraid Quad raid card for my company's Mac Pro (2X 2.66 GHZ Quad Core Intel Xeon). The card installed, and the computer booted up fine. I didn't try connecting any drives to it.
I then ran the RR644M driver from the disk image "HPT-Quad-eSATA-mac-v100-100120.dmg". That took no time, but required a restart. On restart, the computer booted to the Lion login screen, the mouse was able to move the cursor, but I couldn't click on any users to get to the desktop. One more restart had the same thing.
Then on subsequent restarts I got a chime, but then only a permanent gray screen. After a couple of hours of troubleshooting I yanked the SSD that I had been booting off of. (BTW, holding down option or shift at reset didn't help). Once that boot drive (with the Rocketraid driver) was gone, it booted fine into another boot drive that was installed.
I set the SSD with the Rocketraid driver into a external cradle on another computer, and the drive did not show up on the desktop or in DIsk Utility / Disk Warrior. I contacted the manufacturer of the SSD, and they thought it had failed.
The SSD is a clone of a spinning drive that was still installed. So I tried booting to that one and running the same Rocketraid driver... and now it appears I'm getting exactly the same thing.
Is it ludacris that a small driver could compelely destroy a boot drive / hard drive? Any way to rescue these drives?

Hopefully someone from this posting can help me out.
I'm using a Sans Digital RAID tower TRM4-B on a mid 2012 Mac Pro running Mountain Lion 10.8 with 20gb of RAM and a Rocket RAID RR622. I built the RAID successfully using the web gui, and the RAID appears as a 4TB in the Mac Disk Utility, but it won't mount. And in disk utility you can click on the drive, but the mount and eject options are greyed out. Of course the web gui shows everything as ok. If it doesn't mount, how can I get access to it to begin saving to it. Also, even as a RAID should I be using it as a time machine?

VIA K8T800 RAID and Highpoint RocketRAID 1540 PCI card

I've had this old HighPoint SATA RocketRAID 1540 PCI card sitting around for awhile now and I thought I would maybe use it to beef up my system. I am currently running a RAID striping array with a pair of WD 74GB Raptors via the K8T800 chipset (no pun intended) on my MSI K8T Master2-FAR workstation and a pair of 80GB Western Digital drives (separate partitions) that I currently use for storing raw data/projects that can be used to rebuild my system in the event of an OS crash (striping array is a bit more risky so I like having this around). My idea is that I would put the WD 80GB drives on a mirroring array and use them for data storage. The catch is that this coming week I am going to reformat and install a dual WinXP/SuSE boot partition on my Raptor striping array, and I will need to make sure that the mirror'd backup drive is accessible by both WinXP and Linux.
Has anyone out there ever tried anything remotely like this?
Thanks!

I assume this Highpoint has it's own RAID-BIOS?
If it does, you could be in trouble, the K8T-Master isn't very happy with controllers that use 2 instances of a controller.
I have tried to get a lot of SCSI Raid controllers working, but no luck, they are the same pricipe.
I tested:
Ami MegaRaid 1600 Elite, windows saw it, but wasn't useable.
Adaptec (forgot the model very old one), board refused to even boot.
IBM Raid (very old as well) would boot, drivers would not install.
Several other have seen the same problems, it has to do with the INT19 (software IRQ) where the controller needs to hook into.
(At least I came to that conclusion)
It doesn't hook into that, but the controller does show up, but can't use the RAID-Processor/BIOS for anything.
A normal SCSI controller like the Adaptec 2940 or such are no problem, but they only use 1 instance.
The difference between a RAID and Non raid controller is that the Non-Raid uses only 1 IRQ and Address, RAID (intelligent ones) use 2 IRQ's and 2 Addresses, and for some reason, the Mobo's BIOS doesn't want to hook both during boot.
In Windows the drivers will load, sometimes, but when you try to access it, Windows is not able to communicate with the Raid-CPU and all sorts of nast things happen, if you even get that far.

Trying to install Highpoint RocketRAID 2720SGL

I'm doing a bit of experimenting at the moment and this involves a RR 2720SGL card. I previously had it installed in a HP Microserver and was able to compile the driver on that (Open Media Vault). I've moved the card to my main Arch x86_64 PC but the driver compilation failed at the very start. I suspect it may be something to do with my kernel version. I'm using 3.11.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT but the manufacturer's website states it only supports up to 3.8.4
john@jupiter64:~/Downloads/rr272x_1x-linux-src-v1.5/product/rr272x/linux$ make
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-3.11.1-1-ARCH'
CC [M] /home/john/Downloads/rr272x_1x-linux-src-v1.5/product/rr272x/linux/.build/os_linux.o
CC [M] /home/john/Downloads/rr272x_1x-linux-src-v1.5/product/rr272x/linux/.build/osm_linux.o
/home/john/Downloads/rr272x_1x-linux-src-v1.5/product/rr272x/linux/.build/osm_linux.c:2126:2: error: unknown field ‘proc_info’ specified in initializer
proc_info: hpt_proc_info26,
^
/home/john/Downloads/rr272x_1x-linux-src-v1.5/product/rr272x/linux/.build/osm_linux.c:2126:2: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
/home/john/Downloads/rr272x_1x-linux-src-v1.5/product/rr272x/linux/.build/osm_linux.c:2126:2: warning: (near initialization for ‘driver_template.proc_dir’) [enabled by default]
make[2]: *** [/home/john/Downloads/rr272x_1x-linux-src-v1.5/product/rr272x/linux/.build/osm_linux.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/john/Downloads/rr272x_1x-linux-src-v1.5/product/rr272x/linux/.build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-3.11.1-1-ARCH'
make: *** [rr272x_1x.ko] Error 2
Am I on the right track? Can this be compiled using my current kernel?
Thanks.

Anyone have an idea on this? I'm looking at removing the card as I can't compile the driver. Might contact Highpoint themselves.

HighPoint RocketRAID Quad eSATA 6GB/s for Mac 644

I have successfully installed the hardware and driver. And connected to an external enclosure with eSata cable.
When I try to start up MacPro, the monitor shows the prohibitary sign, circle and slash.
I assume there is some conflicts between computer, RAID card, or the external enclosure but am unable to tell.
Can you tell if my MacPro is compatible with the card?
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP506?viewlocale=en_US
Is there anyone having the same issue??
I would also like to know if the card is installed properly...
Any inputs would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance!
K

would be more interested in just which HPT RR card you chose,
AND the enclosure (make/type/manuf).
Can't answer with a generic card and case :-(
http://www.hptmac.com/US/categories.php?compatibility=11
RocketRaid Search
Mac Pro 4,1 (2009) then you likely are not using 64-bit kernel, which is always an issue having to have 64-bit clean drivers. though that is what the prophitory sign would seem to signal.
Me preference is to always when possible use native SATA enclosures, they don't have issues, and you get the full bandwidth and performance.
An Apple tech article vanishes, and leaves us with a "404 we're sorry" doesn't cut it, why not leave and say it is superceeded or there was a fix in 10.6.4 instead?
Well, the original had this to say:
There is/was a tech note warning about an issue with Oxford chipset and affecting those quad-interface cases. (Not that there haven't been issues with these before, but that was when they were used connected to a PCI Express SATA controller).
From Hardmac:
Apple TechNote
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3449
the new Mac Pro 2010 compatibility with some Oxford OXUF934DSB usually found in quad interface enclosures (eSATA/USB/Firewire 400/8000). According to Apple, such drives would randomly refuse to automatically mount when booting the Mac Pro Apple. To fix the problem, you will need to wait for couple of second after booting the Mac Pro before turning the external HD on. A solution will most probably be found soon, either via a firmware update of the controller, or a driver update.

Highpoint rocketraid 4310 results?

I just finished our weekend build and used a program to give me a rough idea of where the raid drives sit as far as speed. I am getting write speed of 182 and a read of 390. This free prog was called parkdale speed test. Simple tester but seems to have alot of choices to test. My question is are these decent speeds for a raid 3?
Now here is the setup.
Raid 3 on the highpoint:
2x1tb seagate 32mb cache
2X 500 seagate 32mb cache
I know we are wasting drive space here.
I am thinking that this might not be the best scenario but I cannot jump into any more drives right now due to business budget
I am starting to lean towards the raid 0 and use the other two drives for backups and what not.
Ideas ?
ADDED:
I just setup a simple raid 0 and my results looked much more even.
4000mbyt file
write 333
read 361.6
That sounds a bit better on the write times. I don't know where I would have lost the extra write speed on the Raid 3. Another question.
Sorry guys. Any takers?

Is this a sound idea to do with proper backups?
It is.
I've had drives fail in a RAID 0 before and lost all data, so I'm just not a particular fan of ever using RAID 0 again. But so long as you have (and remember to perform) a backup solution, you should be good.
(But I still think you're better off adding a third 1TB drive for RAID 3.)

Problems w/Highpoint RocketRAID 133

q#1: my hpt controller worked fine for half of a year, but 2 days ago smth strange happened! usually sandra showed about 65mb/s transfer rate but today that score was only 45mb/s and won't grow any higher! defragmenting of a drive didn't change anything! help. also tried to change fsutil behavior memoryusage, and other fs settings thru registry.
and q#2: what is PCI Latency Timer in BIOS and what is the best setting for it?

The transfer speed depends on what portion of the drive you are working with. It can go from a high of just over 65 to a low of less than 10, so it is probably just a case that you now have more data on the drive and are working in a slower part of the drive. Sandra is not a good product for benchmarking drives.

Final Cut Studio is crashing a lot using a Mac Pro (nehalem) 2009

Greetings,
I have a video workstation based on a Mac Pro (2x2.26GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon Nehalem, 6 GB RAM, 640 GB HD, 512 NVIDEA VRAM) with a Blackmagic Decklink HD Extreme 2009 and an Highpoint RocketRAID 4322 card (properly connected to a RAID 5 array).
I'm editing, with Final Cut Studio 3, a big TV project with some TGA and loads of HD XDCAM EX 35mbs video footage.
*What is happening wrong?*
Final Cut Pro is crashing to many times and dont let me work with the flow that is supposed. I start to work and i do a bit of scrubbing in the timeline and suddenly the rainbow spyral starts to spin and kaput! FCP just crashes.
I've tried to many things. Re-installing everything from the baseline, plug out the 2 PCIe cards (and not even the drivers are installed). Even so FCP still crashes with the project.
Funny thing is... This symptom only happens with the Nehalem Mac Pro. I have another station based on a Mac Pro 2x2.66 GHz Dual Core Xeon 3 GB RAM 2006 and when i run the project... everything works fine. FCP here doesn't crash.
This is what makes me believe that the problem must be with the new Mac Pro.
I have the reports generated by the FCP after the crash. You can find it here:
http://www.ideiascompernas.com/reports/
I'm getting frustrated because i've invested big in this workstation, safe in the knowledge that it was going to be stable to complete my requirements.
Is there anything that i or Apple can do to resolve my problem. Is it the processor? Extended Hardware Test says that everything is ok.
I'll be waiting,
best regards, thanks,
Pedro

You may want to also post here:
Final Cut Studio forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=123
Content creation with Final Cut Studio
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1137
I see you have the GT120, not a very nice card really but maybe it is 'enough.' I'd upgrade. To ATI Radeon 4870, once you get it stable and working.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10251193&tstart=0
I see your crash is kernel panic actually.
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 194
Almost always that is memory related, are you seeing parity errors?
Watch System Profile - Memory tab
Replace the RAM (I'd even up it to more memory, 6 x 2GB is what I would have configured for)
Have you tested your RAM? run Apple Hardware Test?
Disabled ALL USB and Firewire devices?
Is the RR4322 okay to run in slot #2 (16x) rather than in slot 3 or 4 (4x)?
Getting RAM replaced, advanced exchange, or go out and getting some Kingston or Crucial etc for your system, and swapping, really is one good method, trial and error, to find the cultprit or rule out RAM.
Errors like this can mean flushing your caches is a must, and possibly due to errors and crashes, clean system install, checking data (both time consuming) and being careful to recheck your drives with Disk Warrior and/or TechTool Pro 5 to insure there are not any corrupt files (not perfect either which is why restore the system from known good backup image can be a must).

HELP!! HighPoint RocketRAID 4322

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