IBM/LSI Serve/MegaRAID in hackintosh

Hello, can someone confirm a SATA RAID Controller such as IBM/LSI ServeRaid M5015 or similar can be used to create a RAID massive in the RAID BIOS Utility to be used as a destination for macOS 12 Monterey? As I understand these controllers have their own BIOS where it is possible to create a "hard" RAID massive so the motherboard BIOS could see it as a separate storage drive. If so, can such massive be interpreted as a regular drive for cloning or installing Monterey? Thanks a lot!

eLDeus said:

Hello, can someone confirm a SATA RAID Controller such as IBM/LSI ServeRaid M5015 or similar can be used to create a RAID massive in the RAID BIOS Utility to be used as a destination for macOS 12 Monterey? As I understand these controllers have their own BIOS where it is possible to create a "hard" RAID massive so the motherboard BIOS could see it as a separate storage drive. If so, can such massive be interpreted as a regular drive for cloning or installing Monterey? Thanks a lot!

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Hi there,

I can confirm it is possible to do so. I use a Highpoint RAID SAS controller on a PCIe card and we run it with an Areca 8-bay RAID at the office which the system sees as a working drive. macOS has native Highpoint drivers so that’s why it works.

Middleman said:

Hi there,

I can confirm it is possible to do so. I use a Highpoint RAID SAS controller on a PCIe card and we run it with an Areca 8-bay RAID at the office which the system sees as a working drive. macOS has native Highpoint drivers so that’s why it works.

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Great! Can you please tell will HighPoint RocketRAID 2680SGL work on Monterey with the Mac driver? If so can you please share the process of creating the new RAID, where it should be, directly in the macOS or the card has its own BIOS utility? Thank you!

eLDeus said:

Great! Can you please tell will HighPoint RocketRAID 2680SGL work on Monterey with the Mac driver? If so can you please share the process of creating the new RAID, where it should be, directly in the macOS or the card has its own BIOS utility? Thank you!

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Okay. Well I’m not sure about the exact RocketRAID card, but it should technically work. You can check this on the Highpoint website.

As for the RAID, actually that was created using Areca’s own internal web-based menu and not from BIOS. We had to install both the Areca’s macOS driver and MRAID utility and then accessed it via a browser. From there we formatted the drives and then set it to RAID 6 with hot-spare.

Thank you! Sorry for late reply. I thought it would be easier just to buy a cheap NVMe with a PCI-E adapter for my motherboard instead of looking through the boards for the appropriate RAID card. All worked out of the box instead of one moment with the option of running NVMe disk set into the second PCIe slot x4. The first writing bite immediately led to the system freeze, so I had to insert my Radeon HD 7770 into x4 to allow NVMe to work as expected. Any ideas of what can be the reason for not working state in the second slot? It would be better to have my video card in x16 since I have some graphic work from time to time.

eLDeus said:

.. All worked out of the box instead of one moment with the option of running NVMe disk set into the second PCIe slot x4. The first writing bite immediately led to the system freeze, so I had to insert my Radeon HD 7770 into x4 to allow NVMe to work as expected. Any ideas of what can be the reason for not working state in the second slot? ..

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Not sure if your BIOS has this Peripherals option ;





if it does then you may have the following options or more;



..where you can set it to match the bandwidth to your preference of your NVMe PCI-e card.

In my BIOS, the latest official if I'm right there is an option only for choosing the more precise PCI-e version, in my case it is version 3. Neither Auto, nor Gen3 works Although the NVMe card adapter supports 3.0. Should I try ordering a different PCIe adapter? I'm using this one installed in x4 PCE-e slot:

KS-IS M.2 NVME PCIe 3.0 x4 adapter​

• 2280 M.2 SSD
• PCIe 4.0 x4 supports PCIe x4/x8/x16 slot
• Chipset: JEYI
• Support for PCIe 3.0 Gen3 and earlier

In my opinion, the adapter works perfectly, I've installed it a couple of times with different SSDs on PC, all was great without any issues. Maybe there is a trouble in the config of my OpenCore?

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I don't think your NVME PCIe Card is an issue.
I have modified the Z77-D3H F23b BIOS for all 3 board revisions to allow native NVME boot support.
The nvme EFI module files were extracted from a vanilla Z97-D3H bios file downloaded from Gigabyte website.
I'm unsure if this will resolve your issue but you're free to try it.
Read the Readme file before flashing.

Thank you, I appreciate your help! I just noticed I misspelled the model of my motherboard, it's Z77-DS3H, not D3H, that's why this modded BIOS was denied by the flash utility.
I made a new thread if you have other ideas about this issue please reply there: