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Anyone using eSATA connection on macpro
Hey Guys,
I’m trying to setup the LaCie big quadra (8TB) on my final cut system.
I had an eSATA card put in…but I can’t get the drive to come up. In disk utility it doesn’t even come up as a drive attached. If I use Firewire 800 it does…but I’d like the speed from eSATA.
I went through the instructions on the card (HighPoint eSATA controller) and setup the ARRAY through web interface…but it’s not coming up on my MacPro.
Any ideas? Do I just have a cheap eSATA controller?
-Jason
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Install the latest drivers for that eSATA card?
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Hi Jason,
If you go to the Apple Icon> About This Mac > More Info… you should be able to see your card listed under the PCI Cards menu. If you select it the info pane will tell you whether or not the driver is installed. If it says ‘No’, you could probably find the driver on the Highpoint support site (or on a CD that came with the card??).
If it says ‘Yes’ then you have a problem. Could be one of many things, in which case I’d contact Highpoint and Lacie and see what their tech people recommend.Good luck,
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Yea…driver installed and updated…still not working.
Just wondering if there was anything special to it. I’ve never used the eSATA protocol before…so this connection type is new for me.
-Jason
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If you are working on Snow Leopard, then many of the eSata drivers are not working yet.
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Still on OSX 10.5.8
Here’s a quick question…I’m new to macs and don’t understand the OS numbering system.
If Snow Leopard is a new OS, wouldn’t it be version 11.
From what I’ve seen…it seems to be 10.6. Which would indicate to me that it is just an upgrade step in a software’s evolution. So is Snow Leopoard just an update to Leopard?
I’m speaking completely out of context because I’ve only been working on mac’s for 3 months.
-Jason
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[Jason Brown] “If Snow Leopard is a new OS, wouldn’t it be version 11.
“No, all of OS X has been a point upgrade.
10.3 was Jaguar. 10.4 was Tiger. 10.5 Leopard, 10.6 Snow Leopard and so on.
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[Jason Brown] “So is Snow Leopoard just an update to Leopard?”
Who knows how OS people work out the numbering. The common protocol has been that fundamental changes jump whole numbers. Going from OS9 to OS10 was totally a new OS as they went to Unix. Leopard and Snow Leopard are a continuation of that, with Snow leopard dropping support for non intel chip computers and adding 64 bit support.
Then of course there are the marketing people who come up with jazzy names like Tiger and Snow Leopard.
Regarding your problem, there were some fairly recent threads warning of a lack of Snow Leopard support for a particular chip on many esata boards and that there was a lack of drivers.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1051087#1051087 -
You may want to find out if LaCie of Highpoint even support each other. There are some cards that just don’t speak the right eSATA for certain drives. And in other cases, using the card manufactured by the drives OEM will provide features above and beyond other cards. An example would be G-Tech. They have their own drive maintenance/monitoring software that can only be used if you are using their eSATA card with their drives.
That’s not to say you can’t mix and match, I use both LaCie, G-Tech and Sonnet drives with a Sonnet card. But that doesn’t mean they are all interchangeable.
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That’s just coming from my Windows background I guess.
What would version 11 constitute? Is that just after 10.9? Or what would constitute a jump to the full number?
-Jason
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Not running Snow Leopard yet (it’s sitting on the shelf waiting) but when I changed my eSATA drives over to my MacPro, I not only had to install new drivers but also update the firmware on the card before it worked properly. I’m running Firmtek products. Just a thought.
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