MacBook Pro with Yosematie will not read EX3 SXS cards

[Ian Cook]

We’ll be releasing an update for Yosemite soon. In the meantime you can use an SxS card reader (SBACUS10 or SBACUS20) or the camera. The device driver is only required when using the express card slot.

[Roy Stewart]

Hi Ian

Thank you heaps for the prompt reply and help. I assume you are with Sony.

Yes, I did borrow a card reader for a specific which did work and I am aware I could copy from the camera but neither is as convenient as the Xpress card slot.

Looking forward to hearing about the update.

Thank you

Roy

[Jeremy Eccard]

We recently upgraded to Yosemite 10.10.1 – MacPro (Mid 2012). USB Transfers from US-10 using SxS are excruciatingly slow, more than double real-time. Before we were using Mountain Lion and transfers were much faster. Any suggestions?

[Ian Cook]

You need to update the SxS UDF driver. The version you have doesn’t work under Yosemite (10.10). When the driver isn’t installed or isn’t working correctly you’ll have extremely slow transfers and the card will mount as read-only. Install the below update and you should be back on track.

https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/sxsudfdriver

Ian Cook
Sony Broadcast and Professional Services

[Jeremy Eccard]

Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately that didn’t solve the problem. Any other ideas? Is there a way for me start over with clean slate, uninstall Content Browser and drivers?

[Ian Cook]

try uninstalling/reinstalling and rebooting. if you are getting slow transfers after an OS upgrade it’s almost certainly the driver. this is exactly the behavior to expect when it isn’t installed or isn’t working. you do not need to uninstall/reinstall Browser but you do want to be at the latest version.

[Jeremy Eccard]

Please excuse my ignorance. How do I uninstall the driver? I didn’t change the install location so it should be on Macintosh HD (default location).

[Ian Cook]

System/Library/Extensions/SxS_UDF.kext

If you see other ‘SxS’ items in here remove them and then reinstall just the UDF driver

[Jeremy Eccard]

Thanks for the help! Everything is working normal again. There were several SxS Drivers installed – after removing them, rebooting, installing new driver, and rebooting again we are good to go.

One more question, does the PDW-U1 work with Yosemite? We have an older Sony camera that shoots MPEG HD(HQ) and I can’t seem to get the professional discs to mount.

[Ian Cook]

Glad it worked out. The Yosemite update for the U1/U2 is still pending but should be available soon.