TowerRAID + RocketRAID 622 on Dual-core G5?

knowing full age , limitations of system in question, asked following of highpoint's arduous-to-login-to-and-tedious-to-post-on "support" forum, regarding online capacity expansion (when adding more/larger drives) raid:

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i have employed rocketraid 622 pcie card in power mac g5 media server that's running mac os x 10.5.8. far, working great. pleasantly surprised disks installed in connected towerraid showed w/ nothing more running installer. so, created raid5, working well.

1 thing have, though, ability expand array. see current v2.6.8 of mac webgui software allows oce/orlm function. fun, tried installing this, webgui wouldn't come up, , received errors in log stating:

2/22/15 10:47:08 com.apple.launchd[1] (hptwebguidaemon[24993]) posix_spawnp("/applications/hptwebgui/hptsvr/raidman-httpsd", ...): bad cpu type in executable​

clearly, expecting intel cpu , finding powerpc. there chance can build 10.5-compatible universal binary, g5 can run , gain oce/orlm feature?? have second, identical g5 server might want purchase rr622 for, doubly useful me!

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again, i'm aware of i'm asking about. sure, go out , buy 2006 mac pro or newer , gain fraction of functionality. g5 doesn't cost me , way more adequate home media server. nevertheless, super-helpful answer got was:

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the power mac g5 old , we've stopped [supporting] that.

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well, no *****, sherlock. entire reason asked in case there no technical reason not include 10.5/ppc when compiling tiny webgui program, maybe consider including. guess that's outlandish.

anyway, wondered if had similar arrangement , had come w/ clever workarounds expanding raid or found other versions or ways run newer webgui version on g5. details pretty specified in quote, here's summary:

power mac g5/2.3ghz dc
mac os x server 10.5.8
rocketraid 622
towerraid tr4m(-b)p
3 x 1tb hds in raid5

suggestions or similar experiences?

thx,
fred

 

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