Glyph HighPoint Card - Manual (Page 3)

Setting up the HighPoint Adapter with Mac OS X
Installing the Hardware
1. Power down your computer.
2. Install the HighPoint card into an open PCIe slot, and power on your computer.
With Glyph Manager software
The HighPoint card allows Glyph Manager 4 software to display health status of the GT 062E and the Fort-
eRAID over eSATA**. Glyph Manager offers a rich user interface which reports enclosure temperature, fan
speed, individual drives’ health status and temperature, as well as any drive errors or rebuild failures. Glyph
Manager constantly monitors the health of the ForteRAID and GT 062E as a background task using S.M.A.R.T.
commands. If a problem is detected, it blinks the front LEDs red, and bounces an icon in the Mac OS X dock
or displaying an error balloon from the Windows System Tray, alerting the user to open Glyph Manager for
more information. By constantly monitoring the drives, you have a chance to backup your data before any is
lost due to drive failure.
*ForteRAID with Glyph HighPoint card supports 2 streams of ProRes 422 1080i, 60 fps (HQ and lower); and 4
streams of Apple AIC 720p, 24 fps. Tested on Mac Pro with OS 10.5.8. Not qualified for Uncompressed HD (8-bit or
10-bit) playback or editing.
**HighPoint card works with Glyph Manager 4 under Macintosh only. Glyph Manager 4 is supported On Windows
XP, Vista, and Windows 7 machines with motherboards that include onboard eSATA.
Advanced Features
The HighPoint card also supports 15,000 and 10,000 rpm SAS (serial attached SCSI) drives if connected to a
non-Glyph SAS enclosure. Its on-board RAID controller supports RAID 0,1,5,10 and JBOD when connected
to a SATA or SAS enclosure. It supports 3Gb/s (300MB/s) transfer rates, Write-through and write-back cache,
S.M.A.R.T. drive monitoring for status and reliability, Native Command Queuing, 64bit LBA for over 2TB sup-
port, Hot swap and hot spare, port multipliers with FIS-based switching, support for internal and external
storage configurations, and enclosure management.
3. You’ll need to install a driver for the HighPoint card. For Mac OS X 10.4
and above, be sure to install Glyph’s proprietary Mac OS X driver which is
available at www.glyphtech.com, and on the Glyph branded CD that ships
with the card. This Mac driver allows Glyph Manager to work with Glyph
RAID products such as the GT 062E and ForteRAID. After downloading the
.dmg file, the installer will mount on desktop like the image to the right.
4. Follow the install steps in the Installer Package, and reboot your comput-
er if necessary. Your eSATA connected drives should mount on the desktop
like the image to the right. For more installation instructions, please refer-
ence the HighPoint User’s Guide that came with the card.