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SSD7110 Controller macOS Installation Guide 1. Overview The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use the SSD7110 controller with a macOS system. 2. Installing macOS on SSD7110 controller If you would like to install macOS onto drives attached to SSD7110 controller, please follow the procedure bellow.
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SSD7110 Controller macOS Installation Guide will now start in Recovery Mode; 2. When you see the macOS Utilities window, choose Utilities > Startup Security Utility from the menu bar; 3. When the Startup Security Utility window appears, select ‘No Security’ under the ‘Secure Boot’ options and ‘Allow booting from external or removable media’...
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SSD7110 Controller macOS Installation Guide Release the Option key when you see the Startup Manager window; 4. Select ‘EFI Boot’, then click the arrow under its icon, or press Return to enter the EFI interface; Use the command “SSD711x.nsh”, and press Return when the message “Passed” appears;...
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Use the command ‘exit’ to exit the EFI interface; Step 5 Install the system to SSD7110 1. Install macOS to the Mac’s internal disk. After booting the system, install the SSD7110 driver and WebGUI; 2. Use ‘Disk Utility’ to format/partition the array: 3.
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SSD7110 Controller macOS Installation Guide SOURCE = select the disk that you want to clone, DESTINATION = 4. Open ‘Carbon Copy Cloner’, select RAID disk that you created in the EFI interface, then click ‘Clone’; 5. When cloning has finished, restart your Mac, then press and hold the Option (Alt) key immediately;...
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SSD7110 Controller macOS Installation Guide b. Press Option-Shift-Command-Period while in Startup Manager (e.g., MacBook Pro 2013/ MacBook Pro 2016). If your RAID disk appears, do that each time you want to start up from it or from another disk connected to it.
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