Mac Pro 2009 with a Highpoint RocketRaid 640L raid card

[DaCapo1142]

I’ve bought a RR640L, and found out that it doesn’t support bootable raid in OS X. Since RR642L was on the El Capitan support list (http://www.hptmac.com/support_el_capitan.php), I though that RR640L can also achieve a bootable raid in El Capitan because they used the same Marvell 88SE9235 chip. After a few hours of work, I successfully replace the product S/N in the RR642L EFI rom to fool the WebGUI into accepting it. Now, I’m able to boot with 2 SSD raid 0, but the write speed is slow. I've test these SSDs within windows 7 before, they can both reach 400 MB/s write and 500 MB/s read.

Any suggestions? Raid cards which officially support for both OS X and sataIII are too expensive…

 

[erickjunior]

I’ve bought a RR640L, and found out that it doesn’t support bootable raid in OS X. Since RR642L was on the El Capitan support list (http://www.hptmac.com/support_el_capitan.php), I though that RR640L can also achieve a bootable raid in El Capitan because they used the same Marvell 88SE9235 chip. After a few hours of work, I successfully replace the product S/N in the RR642L EFI rom to fool the WebGUI into accepting it. Now, I’m able to boot with 2 SSD raid 0, but the write speed is slow. I've test these SSDs within windows 7 before, they can both reach 400 MB/s write and 500 MB/s read.

Any suggestions? Raid cards which officially support for both OS X and sataIII are too expensive…

RR640L with M4 128G non-raid is same as your situation, slower as 1XXMB/s!
BTW, could you pls share your rom? My RR640L cannot boot in El now.

 

[DaCapo1142]

RR640L with M4 128G non-raid is same as your situation, slower as 1XXMB/s!
BTW, could you pls share your rom? My RR640L cannot boot in El now.

here you are

 

[erickjunior]

here you are

thanks so much, hope my card will be boot with your rom

 

[erickjunior]

After flashed your rom, it hasn't bios version and it can boot finally! But only in Mac Os, Bootcamp cannot! And the speed is same as before! Thanks a lot again!

 

[Tharayman]

I’ve bought a RR640L, and found out that it doesn’t support bootable raid in OS X. Since RR642L was on the El Capitan support list (http://www.hptmac.com/support_el_capitan.php), I though that RR640L can also achieve a bootable raid in El Capitan because they used the same Marvell 88SE9235 chip. After a few hours of work, I successfully replace the product S/N in the RR642L EFI rom to fool the WebGUI into accepting it. Now, I’m able to boot with 2 SSD raid 0, but the write speed is slow. I've test these SSDs within windows 7 before, they can both reach 400 MB/s write and 500 MB/s read.

Any suggestions? Raid cards which officially support for both OS X and sataIII are too expensive…

Did you place the card in the x16 or x4 slot?
Did your system recognize the card instantly when you installed the driver?