You’d think it would be a straight-forward install right? Wrong. I figured out that the SuperTrak models use the PM8011 and simply downloaded the windows drivers. After 2 days of trial and error, I come across a press release stating that PMC and Promise are building controllers that use this exact chip! Woohoo! That was the first major step in the right direction. So I figured I would do some hacking on my own. Knowing what I know from the Linux world, drivers detect chipsets and that’s basically it. Well, seems like there are quite a few and after mucking around with all the big brand name drivers, none would install. What other RAID controllers out there use the same controller chip? PMC-Sierra’s PM8011. I booted up into bootcamp only to find out that device manager shows there’s a RAID controller made by Promise without the drivers. Plugging a Pegasus into the Thunderbolt port and running apple updates (both apple and bootcamp side) gives us tons of updates (Mostly 2 EFI updates and the Thunderbolt drivers). I’m a smart duckie (at least that’s what I’m told).įirst things first. Just another way to move Windows users over to MAC OSX completely, although there are some of us that need the R4/R6 and it’s bandwidth capabilities over Thunderbolt on Windows (me included).Ī Thunderbolt device will work on Bootcamp as long as it’s connected during startup, but daisy-chaining (is that even a word!?!!) to the primary device will allow hot plug Thunderbolt devices to work on secondary+ devices (if supported by Bootcamp). The Pegasys R4/R6 WILL WORK on Bootcamp (with a bit of trickery), because Apple doesn’t want it to work with Bootcamp. Thunderbolt will work with Thunderbolt devices on the MAC and sometimes on the PC (depending on the device). So I decided I’d start noodling around and figure out the problem. This really isn’t a solution anyways, because it just adds tons of overhead to a system. Yes, you can kind-of use Parallels, but the reality is you’re going to get completely horrible speed.

(Having an SSD in my Macbook Pro is great, but space is at a premium).Īpple doesn’t want to help, nor does promise regarding getting it working on Bootcamp.

It really chaps my knickers that I went out and bought a brand new Promise R4/R6 RAID Array only to find out I can’t use it with Bootcamp.

Pegasus2 r6 drive not mounting