Lsi Logic Sas Driver For Mac

My IBM m5014 broke down. Fortunately i had the chance to aquire an original LSI 9260-8i with BBU and 512Mb. (i have some for sale also) I also replaced my slow and unsupported WD30ERZRX with Hitachi 4TB drives All should work well, but at this point (i haven't tested and analyzed all yet) it seems that if the read/write speeds get too high, OS X will fail. It will become unresponsive. No drive activity/awareness anymore, rendering it useless.

1. Lsi Adapter Sas 3000 Driver

So far;. I de-activated disk cache, but it still happens. I recreated the array/changed properties. This helps when doing a migration from a flashed IBM to a original LSI. Apparently there are some small differences.

Just change some attributes and change them back later to get it going correctly. How could i best determine whether this is driver related? (Which it absolutely shouldn't be!) Yes, there is a possibility of controller stuck if too much commands are going thru it. There is a hack in a code which i keep disabled, since it hasn't proven its usefulness yet. You'll find a build with this hack applied in attach. Lemme know whether it changes anything.

Lsi Adapter Sas 3000 Driver

In second, you may use Full Debug kext and stick to a system.log jrnl too see at which point it stalls. But it's better to move out a boot drive from your card to reduce console messages flood. Yes, there is a possibility of controller stuck if too much commands are going thru it.

There is a hack in a code which i keep disabled, since it hasn't proven its usefulness yet. You'll find a build with this hack applied in attach. Lemme know whether it changes anything.

In second, you may use Full Debug kext and stick to a system.log jrnl too see at which point it stalls. But it's better to move out a boot drive from your card to reduce console messages flood. I think that there's another problem.hardware based. Probably my motherboard.

BTW; I was wondering. Shouldn't the driver of the LSI / 3WARE be more or less compatible with the 9260, since it's also a SAS2108 based card, and one of the few OS X compatible ones (by vendor support). I'm sorry, but i was forced to add a hack to this driver which prevents the system from going to sleep. The reason is that i'm getting data corruption of boot volume and/or kernel panic on either wakeup or next boot after sleep-wakeup was made, when i'm booting OS from the drive attached to a controller (if i'm booting from a drive not handled by this driver, everything is ok). I've tried to fix this, but nothing helped so far. I'll send you kexts with this hack disabled via PM, if you mind to check, maybe you got another experience.

But, as a disclaimer, you'll need to disconnect all volumes with valuable data, and move your OS X boot drive to an internal controller. P.S.: Note that round a minute should pass after the wakeup before you'll can access your drives. Hey there, first of all BIG thanks for the great work! Finally I can use my perc 5 with RAID 5 Installed it and everything works great, but I have the same sleep issue:/ Hope this is not too fast forward, but could you send me the kext with the disabled hack as well? That would help me out a lot!

Thanks in advance, Michael. Hi Duckzcry.I am new to raid controllers and even more so getting them to function in OS X. I have read the dell h310 mentioned; could you summarize for me what the final verdict is on using this card with your driver? Is this a good idea or not?

I read a previous poster said that the hard drives need to be virtual disks in order to access them. I do not now what this means.could you link me to where I can read about what this is, in the context of your discussion here about them? Any advice from your experience on how to set this up/understand this application would be most appreciated.

Sorry for bing such a newb.gotta start somewhere I guess. Sorry should have added the following information: Mc pro 1,1 (2006) Flashed to 64 bit EFI OSX mavericks The controller, if not already known, is LSISAS2008 Thanks! Hi Duckzcry.I am new to raid controllers and even more so getting them to function in OS X. I have read the dell h310 mentioned; could you summarize for me what the final verdict is on using this card with your driver? Is this a good idea or not?

I read a previous poster said that the hard drives need to be virtual disks in order to access them. I do not now what this means.could you link me to where I can read about what this is, in the context of your discussion here about them?

Any advice from your experience on how to set this up/understand this application would be most appreciated. Sorry for bing such a newb.gotta start somewhere I guess. Sorry should have added the following information: Mc pro 1,1 (2006) Flashed to 64 bit EFI OSX mavericks The controller, if not already known, is LSISAS2008 Thanks!

I was not not able to put the time into working on these cards, but I think there may be a firmware issue that I ran into. RAID-5 was a no-go, but non-parity RAIDs like 10 worked, so it may depend on your use-case. The driver (like those on any other OS as well) only presents the 'virtual' devices that the card creates. This is just LSI's term for creating a RAID array. All RAID cards will do the same thing.

Once you install the card and the driver go into the BIOS for the card and create a RAID array/virtual disk and it should present that volume to the OS for formatting. Definitely interested to hear if you get the H310 working with RAID-5. As I said I think it will require trying some different firmware levels, which in turn, will require a DOS bootable volume with the Dell firmware on it. Hi Duckzcry.I am new to raid controllers and even more so getting them to function in OS X.

I have read the dell h310 mentioned; could you summarize for me what the final verdict is on using this card with your driver? Is this a good idea or not? Sorry, but i don't track this. Justroach expressed his experience, and you may wait what other h310 owners will say. As for VDs, right, these just RAID arrays represented as single (virtual) disks to the system, and any true hardware RAID card do this indeed. But the LSISAS2008 controllers additionally got the 'physical disks' mode, which just does the device passthrough. It behaves the same as if you would connect your drives to any non-RAID disk controller.

Official LSI drivers should support it, but my doesn't, as i haven't time, will and hardware to work on this. This mode is useful mainly for two purposes: 1) you want to connect the devices, which can't be RAIDed, like CD-ROM; 2) you want to use your hardware RAID controller as plain disk controller, this is common for peoples using software level RAIDs (like ZFS RAID-Z) and want to eliminate an additional overhead. 04.04.14 14:22:13,000 kernel0 Failed to load kext com.apple.driver.SASMegaRAID (error 0xdc008016). I tried to fiddle around with the info.plists from both kexts, tried to change the values in the kext with sleep and tried to use the plist from the original with the kext wsleep - obviously that didn't do it Also I used a range of kext utilities (Kext Utility, Kext Wizard, or terminal use) no difference, so that shouldn't be the problem.

What could be the problem? Or which value would I need to change in the no sleep kext to get it to sleeping? Somehow, I got no good ideas Anyways I really appreciate your work! Hope we'll find the answer to this issue btw: my rigg: Board: GA-Z68MX-UDH3 Controller: Dell Perc 5/i without BBU - FW: 7.0.1-0083 Disk attached to perc: 4x 1TB Samsung Running ML 10.8.5. With everything working Boot Drive attached to board AHCI Hope this helps? Thanks again and greetings. Hi dukzcry and the rest, - Would an LSI (probably rebranded Intel) 9265-8i work?

- I couldn't build mfiutil. I get an error: In file included from mfiutil.c:38:./mfiutil.h:38:10: fatal error: 'sys/linkerset.h' file not found #include Is there a binary available? It would be interesting to check if CacheCade and Fastpath work too (I might do it if I succeed in building my system). Thanks Ignore that for mfiutil. It is in the Installer in Release.zip downloaded from osx86.net Edited April 4, 2014 by gorg. I see it's based on a LSISAS2208 (aka Thunderbolt), so unfortunately no (see ) dZihan, No, but i've just followed my guide to you for the test, and got sleep working. So there's something wrong on your side.

That's what i did: - Done an install from package Release.zip - Tested, no sleep - Got plist from Unsafe settings unlocked.zip, changed AllowSleep preference from 'false' to 'true' and overwritten kext's Info.plist by it, run kext utility, rebooted - Tested, tied to console (opened a terminal and issued 'tail -f /var/log/system.log grep SAS' command), sleep works! Waked up the machine, waited a bit, a console message 'Resumed after sleep' appeared. Used a volume on the controller a bit for the test, done reboot, repeated this step. Hmmm, obviously something is wrong with my setup then. Tried again yesterday but still no sleep, regardless of using ML or Mavericks - so I guess it's back to SW RAID or my search for card compatible with my board goes on Maybe some BIOS settings are set wrong or the Gigabyte Board just doesn't support the Perc in a right manner. Are there (besides Highpoint) actually cards that work natively under OS X? I remember 3ware cards working, but they (LSI) stopped support for OS X?

Thanks for the great support nevertheless!! DZihan, Can't help you with that. But there a lot of topics on this theme on a forum, you just need to search. As for 3ware, yep, they're legacy now. Jsahlen, I think that no.

You can pass them only as virtual devices with this kext. Yes i talked a bit on ZFS volume manager upper in the discussion; that the usage of it's software RAID is the main reason for using of a passthrough mode. Though why go a complicated way? Could you just use an internal controller or take an officially supported one? It's even doesn't need to be a hardware RAID controller. DZihan, Can't help you with that.

But there a lot of topics on this theme on a forum, you just need to search. As for 3ware, yep, they're legacy now. Jsahlen, I think that no. You can pass them only as virtual devices with this kext. Yes i talked a bit on ZFS volume manager upper in the discussion; that the usage of it's software RAID is the main reason for using of a passthrough mode. Though why go a complicated way?

Could you just use an internal controller or take an officially supported one? It's even doesn't need to be a hardware RAID controller. The reason for this card is I don't have enough internal ports + already had the card. Maybe I'll have to look into switching to a different OS for this machine though – it's only used as a NAS/HTPC anyway. Thanks for the quick reply! Hello Insanelymac, I've successfully installed Mac OS X Sierra on 2 32gb flash drives with them as a JBOD Raid. I can only get into the hackintosh if I use another USB flash drive with Clover installed on it.

I've tried using a clover installer however that just installs on my Raid Disk. I've also noticed that when I open clover configurator, there are 2 EFI partitions but both of them were empty. I've tried moving the contents of the EFI on my Raid disk that clover installed but my BIOS does not detect it. Also when I use the other flash drive to boot into clover, there is another volume called 'BOOT OS X' right next to my Raid Disk Volume that I use to boot from. I just want to install and boot off of my Raid usb flash drives. Really running out of options, Thanks guys.