Leopard+6.02 – success stories anyone?

[Mark Palmos]

[tneilson] “he route I took was — remove all traces of APE, clone drive, and upgrade ( not erase, not archive). and it worked, even my AJA Kona LSe without new drivers.”

Hi all, thanks a lot for the input. Its a cold crisp english morning and i really wanna go do the deed, but i had forgotten about the Lhe driver issue… hmmm. Perhaps i could clone the system drive, and then do the upgrade. If it fails, restore the image.

I will report back later
ciao
Mark.
PS
what is APE?

[John Davidson]

You know it’s funny you mention that about the drivers. I downloaded the most recent ones (my model no longer gets new ones- they said to use the 2200 driver, I think) and at first I got a freeze. Defribulated myself, forced a shutdown and it booted up fine ever since. There was a little sluggishness in the shutdown a few times, but I think it was pretty straightforward.

I’m not going to stress about RAID drivers till I get the get my AJA drivers. One impatient fit at a time :-).

[John Davidson]

They Highpoint mac site says in regards to the 1820: “For Leopard Support Upgrade to RocketRaid2220 Controller”.

Do you guys think this means I need to install that controllers driver, or that I need to buy a brand new 2220 piece of hardware?

I emailed support at Highpoint for some clarity on the situation. Wouldn’t want to be installing drivers for hardware I don’t have.

[John Davidson]

Wow. I just found this…
https://www.nabble.com/Highpoint-not-supporting-some-of-their-raid-cards-under-Leopard-t4721151.html

Highpoint is not supporting leopard with a few of it’s cards. I don’t expect support for forever, but it’s barely been 2 years since I purchased this bad boy.

Upgrade to a newer card? So they can not support it next year? No thanks!

What are my options guys? Is there another card that will support Leopard that I can purchase in place of this 1820? What a serious disappointment…:-(.

I can’t imagine how there’s not a software driver solution to getting this card to work. I know some folks are gonna tell me to get over it and that’s life, but seriously? You CAN’T get it to work?

[Walter Biscardi]

Atto has Leopard drivers out already. We run their R380 SAS/SATA cards.

Not really that unusual for manufacturers to not support products that are 3 years old or older. Generally their argument is that the technology has improved so far they do not feel the need to support the older cards too long.

Might be barely two years for you, but it sounds like the card itself is 3-4 years old. As with anything else in technology, anything beyond 1 year is old technology.

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[John Davidson]

True – might be good if people stopped selling it….
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0007NI2A0?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&tag=dealtime-ce-feed-20&linkCode=asn

Lots of PR bragging on the day Leopard launched about how Highpoint was already out the gate with Leopard support – then all these forums popped up with people not able to get their RAIDs to work.

Seems like lazy software/driver development to me – especially because I can READ from the drives just fine. They should really EOL this product.

[Mark Maness]

[mark palmos] “Perhaps i could clone the system drive, and then do the upgrade. If it fails, restore the image. “

ALWAYS a good idea before ANY upgrade. If you can, make multiple version on multiple drives. This way if one thing doesn’t work that you overlooked, it will on an older setup.

Personally, I would if you have the space available, insert a new drive and start fresh with Leopard. Most issues arise from upgrades.

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[Shane Ross]

Not to be snide or anything, but if the company doesn’t make drivers for the card for Leopard…then don’t upgrade to leopard. Leopard doesn’t get you anything. Sticking to Tiger is perfectly acceptable. I was just on an edit system that was running OS9…and it still worked fine.

SO stick with Tiger. I’m sure it will work fine for a few more years.

Shane

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David”

halfway through reading this but I have to comment now

this is 10% offensive
10% stupid
120% hilarious.
and I’m 90% sure thats coffee on my pants, but it might be something else caused by excessive laughter.

too many yiddish speaking relative for that not to make me laugh…HARD

[Aaron Zander]

I did both

cloned my laptop and upgrade installed

as well as installed fresh on my mac pro

It is a noticable difference between the two performance wise as far as startup and how long it took to get going

upgrade/install is EXTREMELY shaky and shouldn’t really be done

but a clean install produced great results.