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Highpoint 7102
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When you said "big issue!" you scared me for a while
[doublepost=1558104605][/doublepost]Now 7102 looks more attractive than ever. If you ever look for support from Highpoint don't even mention MAC. Only Windows, boot, raid...
ha ha, sorry for my bad English.
I also want to test on MacOS Mojave, but my sapphire pulse rx580 is too thick to plug SSD7102 on PCI slot 2, maybe the driver and raid mode works on Mojave.
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16,0 is the bus and device number of the Marvell chip. The NVMe devices have bus numbers 12,15,17. Bridges are not listed in the PCIe list and would have a different bus number. Need ioreg or "lspci -tvnn" output to be sure.
Does this mean the 7102 is booting using an EFI option rom driver from the card on a Mac Pro? I guess this would require EFI Shell info to find out. Maybe "nvram -p" output in macOS would give a clue (after you set the raid as the boot drive in Startup Disk preferences panel).
That makes sense. Without the driver, the OS can't understand how the NVMe drives are formatted (they are formatted differently than the way that Disk Utilities does it for its raids).
That makes sense. The EFI driver can understand the RAID, so you can probably see it in the Startup Manager (when you press Option during boot) and in boot loaders like rEFInd and you can use the EFI Shell to view files from it. When the OS starts, the disk driver from the OS needs to take over, but if it doesn't exist then booting stops.
That's great news! I had a feeling it would work. If it didn't, I was going to tell you to try the software for the ssd7110. The driver & NVMe Manger for the 7110 would probably work too and that card was also designed with RAID boot support unlike 7101A. I havn't checked the file size of all the 7100 series driver/NVMe Manger software to see if they are the same size or not. For all I know they could be the same or different. If they do vary between each card, I'd be curious to see if there are extra options in the 7110 NVMe Manager or if it's driver closer matched the hardware on your board. I hope someone tests the actual 7110 card soon. Be interesting to see what's under the hood since it has SAS/SATA support too. I bet it will be very similar to 7102 with extra components for the SAS ports.
Nice that you have the option for RAID 0,1,5 & 1/0 arrays using the HPT software and Mac OS sees it as one physical drive. Opens up more ways you can use your card. If anything you have assured me it would be ok for me to buy a 7102 and get the HPT software working on Mac OS one way or another, even though HPT is not officially supporting it. Perhaps even squeeze out a few extra features over a 7101A although in the end they are both stellar cards performance wise.
Actually I'm not sure how 7102 boot.
I post "nvram -p" output here, can you find some clue?
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LocationServicesEnabled %01
efi-backup-boot-device <array><dict><key>IOMatch</key><dict><key>IOProviderClass</key><string>IOMedia</string><key>IOPropertyMatch</key><dict><key>UUID</key><string>6D1E747C-DC7F-418B-8BB2-B730F377971A</string></dict></dict><key>BLLastBSDName</key><string>disk3s2</string></dict></array>%00
efi-boot-device <array><dict><key>IOMatch</key><dict><key>IOProviderClass</key><string>IOMedia</string><key>IOPropertyMatch</key><dict><key>UUID</key><string>83B132E0-B23E-4857-A02F-83C2B9AF053A</string></dict></dict><key>BLLastBSDName</key><string>disk10s2</string></dict></array>
BootCampHD %02%01%0c%00%d0A%03%0a%00%00%00%00%01%01%06%00%02%1f%03%12%0a%00%00%00%00%00%00%00%7f%ff%04%00
bluetoothInternalControllerInfo %15%82%ac%05%00%00%11Z4Q%c9%ee%9c%ff
NVMeCommandErrorQueue %01%00%00%00
nvda_drv 1
NVMeCommandErrorOpcode %02%00%00%00
SystemAudioVolumeDB %f2
prev-lang:kbd en:0
fmm-computer-name %e2%80%9cwjesse%e2%80%9d%e7%9a%84 Mac Pro
bluetoothActiveControllerInfo %15%82%ac%05%00%00%00%00%11Z4Q%c9%ee%9c%ff
efi-boot-device-data %03%01%08%00%00%01%00%00%04%01*%00%02%00%00%00(@%06%00%00%00%00%00%d8%df%96;%00%00%00%00%e02%b1%83>%b2WH%a0/%83%c2%b9%af%05:%02%02%7f%ff%04%00
SystemAudioVolume 2
EFIBluetoothDelay %b8%0b
efi-backup-boot-device-data %02%01%0c%00%d0A%03%0a%00%00%00%00%01%01%06%00%00%01%01%01%06%00%00%00%01%01%06%00%00%04%01%01%06%00%00%00%03%12%0a%00%01%00%00%00%00%00%04%01*%00%02%00%00%00(@%06%00%00%00%00%00@%ceRt%00%00%00%00|t%1em%7f%dc%8bA%8b%b2%b70%f3w%97%1a%02%02%7f%ff%04%00
Every Apple_RAID array has a partition (Apple_Boot) that is used to boot, please post a diskutil list to show if the AppleBoot is disk10s2
the 7102 work with AHCI ssd, but you can not create raid array by HighPoint RAID Management .
I think the same as 7101-A.
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I'm not sure how to show diskutil list, like this?
or please tell me how to do it, thanks.
Open Terminal and run diskutil list, like this:
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Interesting, I don't understand how the drives are merged as macOS sees just only drive. I'll test this with my SSD7101-A to see if I can do the same.
Today I replace my GPU to GT-120 and boot from MacOS Mojave boot drive, then installed SSD7101-A driver and reboot, my "HPT DISK 3_0 Media" raid0 disk becomes available.
I partition "HPT DISK 3_0 Media" raid0 disk into two drives, format the new partition named as "Raid0 Mojave" and clone MacOS Mojave boot drive to it, then it is bootable.
So I'm sure we can use SSD7102 Raid0 drive to boot MacOS Mojave.
Using HFS+ correct?
Haven’t tried this with the SSD7101-A personally, but can’t you do the same with either card.
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What video card are you using? I'm wondering because I was thinking of getting a Sapphire RX 580 but someone mentioned I'd have trouble fitting a HPT m.2 carrier above it in slot 2. Any space issue with your 7102 and video card?
Sapphire Pulse RX-580 and SSD7101-A is not a good fit, you have to wedge it for the fans don't hit the SSD7101-A back.
I think you can. If the ssd7100 series RAID works anything like my HPT RS6124v then the HPT GUI programs the hardware RAID controller rather than physical switches. All my enclosures that have hardware RAID appear to the OS as one physical drive so essentially the OS don't know it's RAID. Have we tried booting an APFS volume via hardware RAID?
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Thanks, I'll avoid that video card.
What I want to understand is how it’s being done without an option ROM.
APFS boots from hardware RAID arrays that show to the macOS just one disk.
Just one side question:
Does MacsFanControl have access to the fan of 7101 or 7102? Is it adjustable?
Does MacsFanControl have access to the fan of 7101 or 7102? Is it adjustable?
SSD7101-A have a fixed rotation fan.
SSD7102 have a variable one, but AFAIK, no software reads SSD7102 fan rotation. This is a question for HighPoint support answer.
I am not familiar with the terminal command, how to show the full lspci? and how to make sure my correct PCIe device domains to change the 5:* and 6:*?
I use terminal and type code you provide here, it shows command not found.
You have to install pciutils: https://github.com/warexify/pciutils
I usually install from here: https://github.com/gmerlino/homebrew-pciutils
Code:
brew install --HEAD https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gmerlino/homebrew-pciutils/master/pciutils.rbInstall homebrew first: http://brew.sh
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I'm using Nvidia GTX-1080 in High Sierra, but Sapphire Pulse RX-580 in Mojave.
GTX-1080 and SSD7102 fits fine.
Just like tsialex said, Sapphire Pulse RX-580 and SSD7102 is neither a good fit, there is no space for the GPU fans.
GTX-1080 do not support Mojave, so I replace RX-580 to GT-120 when test SSD7102 and Mojave.
GTX-1080 and SSD7102
Sapphire Pulse RX-580 and SSD7102
You could place the SSD7102 in slot 1 and the Rx580 in Slot#2.
Although you would loose one PCIe 2,0 x4 slot, you are gaining 4 PCIe 3.0 x4 m.2 slots with a properly cooled SSD7102.
. If you really need the SATA 3 controller, there are m.2 options.. http://www.lycom.com.tw/DT-152BM.htm