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This is a followup to the thread "Mac Compatible RAID card for JBOD?"
[For anyone purchasing a new JBOD HBA, see later post in this thread on StarTech HBA which works with macOS natively.
If you want to use an LSI 9207-8i keep reading here]
My build is a late model, 11th gen z590, running Monterey 12.4.
After troubleshooting two $50 PCIe 8-port SATA cards (not SAS) which fail with not all drives are detected, and those that are are detected unreliably (although if detected they work), I came across plenty of lore that says LSI and variant SAS HBA is the way to go.
I used the information provided in the previous thread to choose an LSI 9207-8i for $100 US, no cables. You can find these plus cables for less if you look. This is a PCIe3 card with 8 ports, no RAiD.
This card is not natively supported by 12.4.
But by what feels like sheer luck, another user posted AstekFusion2 drivers claimed to be compatible with these chips, and they are... I've attached the same drivers I found at the previous post.
AstekFusion2Adapter.kext
AstekFusion2Family.kext
To make them work, place them both in /Library/Extensions:
You should receive an alert from macOS that legacy extensions have been detected.
If you don't see an alert, try:
Got to System Preferences > Security & Privacy to permit the extensions to run.
Reboot.
Use your drives, up to 8.
This adapter is reported to support SATA port-multiplexor, but I can't get it to work.
Required cables are Mini-SAS to SATA, SFF-8087 allowing connection of SATA drives. These are 3 foot cables with clips. Power must be supplied with a separate cable.
BIOS will see attached drives and allow booting. There are reports there may be sleep issues.
See the following thread for a lot more info...
Drives appear as external / removable to macOS.
The following Clover lore comes from InsanelyMac
"if you want the drives attached to the LSI Fusion adapter to show up as internal, just add this patch to the KextsToPatch section in Clover"
— I have not investigated this config.
SUMMARY
My goal was to get 8 JBOD working on a z590, 11th gen, 12.4 and this worked for me.
[For anyone purchasing a new JBOD HBA, see later post in this thread on StarTech HBA which works with macOS natively.
If you want to use an LSI 9207-8i keep reading here]
My build is a late model, 11th gen z590, running Monterey 12.4.
After troubleshooting two $50 PCIe 8-port SATA cards (not SAS) which fail with not all drives are detected, and those that are are detected unreliably (although if detected they work), I came across plenty of lore that says LSI and variant SAS HBA is the way to go.
I used the information provided in the previous thread to choose an LSI 9207-8i for $100 US, no cables. You can find these plus cables for less if you look. This is a PCIe3 card with 8 ports, no RAiD.
This card is not natively supported by 12.4.
But by what feels like sheer luck, another user posted AstekFusion2 drivers claimed to be compatible with these chips, and they are... I've attached the same drivers I found at the previous post.
AstekFusion2Adapter.kext
AstekFusion2Family.kext
To make them work, place them both in /Library/Extensions:
sudo chown -R root:wheel /Library/Extensions/AstekFusion2*
sudo chmod -R 755 /Library/Extensions/AstekFusion2*
You should receive an alert from macOS that legacy extensions have been detected.
If you don't see an alert, try:
sudo touch /Library/Extensions
Got to System Preferences > Security & Privacy to permit the extensions to run.
Reboot.
Use your drives, up to 8.
This adapter is reported to support SATA port-multiplexor, but I can't get it to work.
Required cables are Mini-SAS to SATA, SFF-8087 allowing connection of SATA drives. These are 3 foot cables with clips. Power must be supplied with a separate cable.
BIOS will see attached drives and allow booting. There are reports there may be sleep issues.
See the following thread for a lot more info...
OSX HBA IT mode cards
looking for how a 2008 based card like a 9212-4e4i or similar in IT mode can run in a mac OS X 10.11 looking for ZFS support and cant get the card to be recognized in OS X on a hackintosh.. can see the card fine in bios.. dont need boot dont want raid .. just IT mode since ZFS needs the...
forums.servethehome.com
Drives appear as external / removable to macOS.
The following Clover lore comes from InsanelyMac
"if you want the drives attached to the LSI Fusion adapter to show up as internal, just add this patch to the KextsToPatch section in Clover"
— I have not investigated this config.
<dict>
<key>Comment</key>
<string>Astek Fusion 2 Fix External</string>
<key>Disabled</key>
<false/>
<key>Find</key>
<data>
PHN0cmluZz5FeHRlcm5hbDwvc3RyaW5nPg==
</data>
<key>InfoPlistPatch</key>
<true/>
<key>Name</key>
<string>AstekFusion2Adapter</string>
<key>Replace</key>
<data>
PHN0cmluZz5JbnRlcm5hbDwvc3RyaW5nPg==
</data>
</dict>
SUMMARY
My goal was to get 8 JBOD working on a z590, 11th gen, 12.4 and this worked for me.
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