Resolved HighPoint 7101A-1 problem when starting os

[themacisgood]

Hi.
I got a problem.

My MP 5.1 can not load os if there is a NVMe M2. card in the HighPoint 7101A-1...

What happens:
If I put the HighPoint 7101A-1 in the MP. And trying to boot from it, or from any internal Sata drive, It always beeps once, screen flickers and the MP restarts, always halfway though the progress bar when booting.

When starting in Recovery mode, I can se all the NVME drives in the drive manager (as external). I could do a full time machine recovery to one of the NVME. But when it restarts after restoring it does the normal beep, restart.

What I have tried:

1. Installing only the card (no NMVE drives in it) I can boot normally from any Sata SSD/HDD.
   As soon as there is a NMVE card (tried several ones) the above restart happens.
2. Tried all different Sata slots.
3. Tried several diffrent NMVE M2 in the Hightpoint
4. Reset NVram
5. Removed Raid card

Possible Reasons:
The MP has a Areca Raid controller card (ARC.1882i) installed. I cant remember if I did anything to the boot rom when installing it. But removing the card does not change anything.

Does anyone have any idea of what could be causing this?
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This is the error I get when removing the NMVE card and booting normally on a internal disk after it has restarted and Ive forced it to shut down on the power button.. Not sure if its relevant.

Anonymous UUID: DADFC98E-DD68-15D1-6AD6-E93BB5A2F1FF

Mon Jul 6 21:54:15 2020

*** Panic Report ***
mp_kdp_enter() timed-out on cpu 2, NMI-ing
mp_kdp_enter() NMI pending on cpus: 0
mp_kdp_enter() timed-out during locked wait after NMI;expected 24 acks but received 23 after 32933328 loops in 1728999779 ticks
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff80054dbadd): Kernel trap at 0xffffff8005a565cf, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000000000038, CR3: 0x000000000923a000, CR4: 0x00000000000226e0
RAX: 0x0000000000000000, RBX: 0xffffff8065d4b910, RCX: 0xffffff8005e821b8, RDX: 0x0000000000000000
RSP: 0xffffff9d801dbcb0, RBP: 0xffffff9d801dbcd0, RSI: 0xffffff8066000860, RDI: 0xffffff80636e5c80
R8: 0xffffff80661fcc00, R9: 0xffffff8005ca3688, R10: 0xffffff8005ca7e58, R11: 0xffffff8064d79380
R12: 0xffffff8005a643c0, R13: 0x0000000000000000, R14: 0xffffff8066000860, R15: 0xffffff84da18e148
RFL: 0x0000000000010282, RIP: 0xffffff8005a565cf, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000000
Fault CR2: 0x0000000000000038, Error code: 0x0000000000000000, Fault CPU: 0x2, PL: 0, VF: 1

Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff9d801db780 : 0xffffff80053ae6ed
0xffffff9d801db7d0 : 0xffffff80054ea185
0xffffff9d801db810 : 0xffffff80054db8ba
0xffffff9d801db880 : 0xffffff800535bb40
0xffffff9d801db8a0 : 0xffffff80053ae107
0xffffff9d801db9c0 : 0xffffff80053adf53
0xffffff9d801dba30 : 0xffffff80054dbadd
0xffffff9d801dbba0 : 0xffffff800535bb40
0xffffff9d801dbbc0 : 0xffffff8005a565cf
0xffffff9d801dbcd0 : 0xffffff7f888f138c
0xffffff9d801dbd40 : 0xffffff7f888ed0c4
0xffffff9d801dbdd0 : 0xffffff7f888f0839
0xffffff9d801dbe00 : 0xffffff7f888ebaed
0xffffff9d801dbe40 : 0xffffff8005a300bb
0xffffff9d801dbe80 : 0xffffff8005a2fd75
0xffffff9d801dbf00 : 0xffffff8005a2f337
0xffffff9d801dbf50 : 0xffffff8005a30e26
0xffffff9d801dbfa0 : 0xffffff800535b0ce
Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
com.MinnowStor.NVMeGeneric(1.0)[27312503-CF2F-3E2B-8D8D-6E79177410C9]@0xffffff7f888eb000->0xffffff7f888fafff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(2.1)[71BB22B0-3075-35A1-B04E-FBAC574DA80D]@0xffffff7f86063000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.9)[BFDEB8D4-50FE-3DDB-87B7-F6A504393830]@0xffffff7f85c95000

BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

Mac OS version:
18G103

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 18.7.0: Tue Aug 20 16:57:14 PDT 2019; root:xnu-4903.271.2~2/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: C41337A1-0EC3-3896-A954-A1F85E849D53
Kernel slide: 0x0000000005000000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8005200000
__HIB text base: 0xffffff8005100000
System model name: MacPro5,1 (Mac-F221BEC8)

System uptime in nanoseconds: 13100043930
last loaded kext at 12093369753: com.MinnowStor.NVMeGeneric 1 (addr 0xffffff7f888eb000, size 65536)
loaded kexts:
com.MinnowStor.NVMeGeneric 1
com.nvidia.CUDA 1.1.0
com.nvidia.NVDAStartupWeb 10.1.1
at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch 5474
com.highpoint-tech.kext.HighPointNVMe 1.1.10
com.Areca.ArcMSR 1.3.9
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver 131
com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsDevicePolicy 3.50.12
com.apple.AGDCPluginDisplayMetrics 3.50.12
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAHardwareConfigDriver 282.54
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.6.5
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 282.54
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver 282.54
com.apple.driver.AppleHV 1
com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.5.9
com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.1
com.apple.GeForce 12.0.0
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 6.0.14d3
com.apple.driver.pmtelemetry 1
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 3.1
com.apple.nvidia.NVDAStartup 12.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelSlowAdaptiveClocking 4.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleOSXWatchdog 1
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin 1.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleFIVRDriver 4.1.0
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothUSBDFU 6.0.14d3
com.apple.filesystems.apfs 945.275.7
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 408.250.3
com.apple.driver.Oxford_Semi 456.260.3
com.apple.driver.IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolSansPhysicalUnit 456.260.3
com.apple.driver.StorageLynx 456.260.3
com.apple.driver.LSI_FW_500 456.260.3
com.apple.driver.initioFWBridge 456.260.3
com.apple.driver.AppleFireWireStorage 456.260.3
com.apple.driver.AppleFileSystemDriver 3.0.1
com.apple.driver.AppleVirtIO 2.1.3
com.apple.filesystems.hfs.kext 407.200.4
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1
com.apple.BootCache 40
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0
com.apple.AppleSystemPolicy 1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 5.6.0
com.apple.driver.Intel82574LEthernet 2.7.2
com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4331 800.21.31
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 329.260.5
com.apple.private.KextAudit 1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 6.1
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 2.1
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 6.1
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.7
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 220.0.0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 201
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 8
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 220.0.0
com.apple.kext.triggers 1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl 3.50.12
com.apple.iokit.IOAVBFamily 760.6
com.apple.plugin.IOgPTPPlugin 740.2
com.apple.iokit.IOEthernetAVBController 1.1.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSkywalkFamily 1
com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 282.54
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 528
com.apple.driver.AppleSSE 1.0
com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily2 404.14
com.apple.nvidia.driver.NVDAGK100Hal 12.0.0
com.apple.nvidia.driver.NVDAResman 12.0.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 255.6.1
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController 1.0.18d1
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI 1.0.14d1
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 530.51
com.apple.AppleGPUWrangler 3.50.12
com.apple.AppleGraphicsDeviceControl 3.50.12
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 282.54
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 530.66
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 282.54
com.apple.iokit.IOSlowAdaptiveClockingFamily 1.0.0
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginLegacy 1.0.0
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 6.0.0d8
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHIDKeyboard 208
com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport 6.0.14d3
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport 6.0.14d3
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothHostControllerTransport 6.0.14d3
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 6.0.14d3
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 408.250.3
com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily 1.8
com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.8
com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleXsanScheme 3
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 301.270.1
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCISerialATAPI 267.50.1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBAudio 315.6
com.apple.driver.usb.IOUSBHostHIDDevice 1.2
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 206.5
com.apple.vecLib.kext 1.2.0
com.apple.driver.usb.cdc 5.0.0
com.apple.driver.usb.networking 5.0.0
com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBHostCompositeDevice 1.2
com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBHub 1.2
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolTransport 2.5.1
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireSBP2 4.3.3
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 11
com.apple.filesystems.hfs.encodings.kext 1
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily 4.7.3
com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 1200.12.2
com.apple.driver.corecapture 1.0.4
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 900.4.2
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 288
com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBEHCIPCI 1.2
com.apple.iokit.IONVMeFamily 2.1.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIParallelFamily 3.0.0
com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBUHCIPCI 1.2
com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBUHCI 1.2
com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBEHCI 1.2
com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBXHCIPCI 1.2
com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBXHCI 1.2
com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBHostPacketFilter 1.0
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 900.4.2
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 2.1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHostMergeProperties 1.2
com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 2.1
com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1
com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 2.0.0
com.apple.security.quarantine 3
com.apple.security.sandbox 300.0
com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.DiskImages 493.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleFDEKeyStore 28.30
com.apple.driver.AppleEffaceableStorage 1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore 2
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTDM 456.260.3
com.apple.driver.AppleMobileFileIntegrity 1.0.5
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageDriver 145.200.2
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice 408.250.3
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 408.250.3
com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 2.1
com.apple.kext.CoreTrust 1
com.apple.driver.AppleCredentialManager 1.0
com.apple.driver.KernelRelayHost 1
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHostFamily 1.2
com.apple.driver.usb.AppleUSBCommon 1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleBusPowerController 1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleSEPManager 1.0.1
com.apple.driver.IOSlaveProcessor 1
com.apple.iokit.IOTimeSyncFamily 740.2
com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 3.4
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com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 6.1
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.9
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.9
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.4
com.apple.kec.pthread 1
com.apple.kec.Libm 1
com.apple.kec.corecrypto 1.0

EOF
Model: MacPro5,1, BootROM 144.0.0.0.0, 12 processors, 6-Core Intel Xeon, 3.46 GHz, 48 GB, SMC 1.39f11
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680, spdisplays_pcie_device, 2 GB
Memory Module: DIMM 1, 16 GB, DDR3 ECC, 1333 MHz, 0x80CE, 0x4D33393342324737305148302D5948392020
Memory Module: DIMM 2, 16 GB, DDR3 ECC, 1333 MHz, 0x80CE, 0x4D33393342324737305148302D5948392020
Memory Module: DIMM 3, 16 GB, DDR3 ECC, 1333 MHz, 0x80CE, 0x4D33393342324737305148302D5948392020
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x8E), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.102.31)
Bluetooth: Version 6.0.14d3, 3 services, 27 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en2
PCI Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680, Display Controller, Slot-1
PCI Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680, NVDA,Parent, Slot-1
PCI Card: PXS3, USB eXtensible Host Controller, Slot-3
PCI Card: pci17d3,1880, RAID Controller, Slot-4
Serial ATA Device: HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GH61N
Serial ATA Device: WDC WD40EFRX-68WT0N0, 4 TB
USB Device: USB 2.0 Bus
USB Device: USB 2.0 Bus
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: PTK-640
USB Device: Keyboard Hub
USB Device: USB Optical Mouse
USB Device: Apple Keyboard
USB Device: EIZO USB HID Monitor
USB Device: USB Bus
USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
USB Device: USB Bus
USB Device: USB Bus
USB Device: USB Bus
USB Device: USB Bus
USB Device: USB Bus
USB Device: USB 3.0 Bus
FireWire Device: built-in_hub, Up to 800 Mb/sec
Thunderbolt Bus:
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Hardware Overview:

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro5,1
Processor Name: 6-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3.46 GHz
Number of Processors: 2
Total Number of Cores: 12
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache (per Processor): 12 MB
Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled
Memory: 48 GB
Boot ROM Version: 144.0.0.0.0
SMC Version (system): 1.39f11
SMC Version (processor tray): 1.39f11


pci17d3,1880:

Type: RAID Controller
Driver Installed: Yes
MSI: Yes
Bus: PCI
Slot: Slot-4
Vendor ID: 0x17d3
Device ID: 0x1880
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x17d3
Subsystem ID: 0x1882
Revision ID: 0x0001
Link Width: x4
Link Speed: 5.0 GT/s



System Software Overview:

System Version: macOS 10.14.6 (18G103)
Kernel Version: Darwin 18.7.0
Boot Volume: OSX
Boot Mode: Normal
Secure Virtual Memory: Enabled
System Integrity Protection: Enabled
Time since boot: 2 minutes

 

[joevt]

Why are you using the com.MinnowStor.NVMeGeneric driver in macOS Mojave? Remove it. Patches exist for the Apple driver in El Capitan and Sierra to support normal NVMe drives. High Sierra and later doesn't need patches.

GitHub - RehabMan/patch-nvme: A set of scripts and plists for patching IONVMeFamily.kext for non-Apple NVMe SSDs (based on the work of PikeRAlpha)

A set of scripts and plists for patching IONVMeFamily.kext for non-Apple NVMe SSDs (based on the work of PikeRAlpha) - RehabMan/patch-nvme

github.com

Your MacPro5,1 has the BootROM 144.0.0.0.0 which is all that is required to boot from an NVMe.

 

[themacisgood]

AHRGGG, I should have thought of that myself! Removing the NVMeGeneric.kext solved the problems. It now boots nicely to mojave.

Thanks for helping me!
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