problems with external esata drive need hardware advice

[Shane Ross]

Sonnet, CalDigit…both make great eSATA cards.

Now you see the danger of buying SUPER CHEAP stuff. YOu get what you pay for.

Shane

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[Rob Grauert]

I don’t have an esata card yet, so I don’t even know if the card is the problem, but if it is, I read that Sonnet makes some good esata cards.

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Sonnet%20Technology/TSATAIIE2P/

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[Chadwick Chennault]

You may also check to make sure that all of your old drivers are uninstalled. Look in Macintosh HD->System->Library->Extensions. Throw away anything that says SiliconImage or begins with SIL. Then reinstall the latest drivers.

[Rafael Amador]

Hi Roli,
I’m working since more than one year with the LaCie, and not a single problem.
Make sure that the driver you are installing is the “Siliconimage 3132r5”.
rafael

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[Roli Rivelino]

OK, thanks for all of that. I’ve done the check that Chadwick suggested and I can see a few things, I just want to double check what to throw away (if anything).

I have:

Siliconimage3132.kext
Siliconimage3132r5.kext

should I get rid of the 3132 and keep the 3132r5?

thanks

aka Newbie Wan Kenewbie. “I will get over my manualaphobia, one day at a time.”

System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Chadwick Chennault]

Personally, I would get rid of both and start from scratch.

[Tony Brittan]

Hey! Did you ever get this sorted out? I’m having trouble with a new Pyro A/V Turbo eSATA. The .kext driver file that was on the cd (I’m on the iPhone so I can’t see your post while answering but it was the one that you had but without the “r5” on it) would install but in system profiler it had the card info and said no driver installed. After talking to tech support And getting nothing accomplished, I found this post and Rafaels link led me to the other driver. I installed that after thrasing the other one and now system profiler show the card, and that the driver is installed but I can’t get mr g-raid 3 or 2 other drives (both 1tb eSATA) to show up.

This particular card has 4 ports…2 inside & 2 external…but is setup to use the 2 internal by default and you have to change the jumpers to switch it to the external. I did that and installed it both ways to no avail.

Why would the card show up and the driver show as installed and it not work? Hhhmmmm

Mac Pro octo-core
4gig ram
Mxo2
10.5.7

I think that’s all you need to know about my system for this question. Lemme know. Prolly should’ve just gotten caldigit or something but trying to make this work because I’ve hit a couple projects to get rollin

Any help any of you can give would be appreciated!

Tony Brittan

[Roli Rivelino]

I’m sorry I can’t help, I didn’t get it sorted, welcome to the wonderful world of Apple Crap.

aka Newbie Wan Kenewbie. “I will get over my manualaphobia, one day at a time.”

System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100

[Tony Brittan]

I did get it sorted by the way! Buy a CalDigit card. They write their own version of the drivers and the cards are geared towards Mac. FASTA 2 port eSATA card is what I got and it works awesome!

[Roli Rivelino]

cool thanks, I’ll try that

aka Newbie Wan Kenewbie. “I will get over my manualaphobia, one day at a time.”

System
Mac Pro 2.8Gb quad core
8Gb RAM
1x 320Gb 7200 hardrive
1x 1Tb 7200 hardrive
Nvidia Geforce 8800 512mb Graphics card
1x 1Tb external WD ‘My Book’ eSata

Equipment
Panasonic AG-HVX 200
Firestore FS-100