iMac can’t see Sonnet Echo ExpressCard Pro with Thunderbolt

[Noah Kadner]

Shoot a note to Sonnet to confirm compatability…

Noah

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[John Rofrano]

According to the Sonnet web site for the Echo ExpressCard Pro, here are your options:

Mac Compatibility

• OS X® 10.6.8+
• OS X Server 10.6.8+
• OS X Mavericks compatible

It doesn’t look like they support Yosemite yet. As Noah said, send them an email to see what their plans are. Maybe they have something in beta you can test for them?

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[Jeremy Garchow]

I would also make sure you have any Sony SxS drivers installed, like the UDF driver: https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/sxsudfdriver

[Jeff Markgraf]

I don’t recall that the Sonnet needs a driver. My Echo II worked just fine when I upgraded my MacBookPro Retina to Yosemite. My ATTO Fiber card ghat I had in the Echo broke (driver not supported in Yosemite), but my Kona 3 worked great.

[Gary Adcock]

[John Rofrano] “It doesn’t look like they support Yosemite yet. As Noah said, send them an email to see what their plans are. Maybe they have something in beta you can test for them”

I have been using the Sonnet SxS Express card TB hardware combo with the various builds of Yosemite on a 1st Gen Retina laptop while OnSet without issue over the last 4 months with out seeing any hardware issues.

I will recommend that both the Sony SxS and UDF drivers be installed for optimal performance.

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[Vincent c. Zettl]

Hey Gary,

Would you be so kind to share what exact version numbers of the SxS device driver and UDF driver you have installed?

I tried it on a maxed out 1st Gen Retina Macbook on which I’d done a complete wipe of the harddrive and absolutely fresh install of Yosemite over the holidays.

Absolutely everything works great (Resolve 11 seems to be faster still on 10.10).

On my first gig last week however, I was unable to read any Alexa SxS cards (tried with different driver versions and tried on two different Sonnet Echo readers).

I actually got stuck to the point, that my Macbook wouldn’t even complete the boot process after I had installed the XQD driver from the Sonnet support site!!

(Luckily I could revive it later by booting in safe mode and removing all of the drivers).

You don’t want this to happen on set.

I then worked off of a Mavericks time machine backup which I carried on an external hard drive (thank God!)

I’d be happy for a running combination in Yosemite however.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Vinc

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[Vincent c. Zettl]

Okay, I got it to work with the newest drivers, after deleting the old SxS plists

[Evan Howell]

Hi Bruce,
Did you ever get this issue resolved?

Evan Howell
Durham, NC

[Bruce Wittman]

Hello Evan,

I did resolve the issue, thanks to all the great advice from my COW friends!

Bruce Wittman
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[Adam Goddard]

Can you please tell me what you did to fix this? Having problems getting it working on new laptop with Yosemite.
Thanks