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Snow Leopard and Sil 3132
I installed my brand new copy of Snow Leopard this morning and everything was fine until I tried to plug my external 320 gb Western Digital drive via my Dynex ExpressCard. Nothing. As it turns out the driver required for this card is now in the incompatible software folder recently created by Snow Leopard. I’ve been reading in a lot of websites about how Snow Leopard is incompatible with Sil 3132, the driver that most expresscards use so I was really starting to panic.
BUT, out of desperation after looking in several sites including, Dynex’s, Silicon Image’s and another one I can’t remember, I ended up re-downloading the driver (Sil3132) and installing it again and…IT WORKED!!!! Miraculously the hard drive is up again and apparently running as usual, I loaded a Premiere Project just to test and so far so good. In fact it runs quite a lot faster than it used to before.
I guess somebody must be writing an update as we speak, and I certainly hope that it be released very soon, but in the meantime for some weird reason the card seems to be working.
I haven’t woken up from my dream so far, but I’ll keep you posted as any news develop.
Any other user experiences related to this welcome.
Best,
D.
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4 Replies
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Hi David,
I’m always weary about operating system updates, especially when they are just newly released. Software and drivers already installed on your computer have been configured especially to work with your existing operating system so it’s not all that surprising to hear you’re having incompatibility problems.
In future, I would wait a few weeks before you rush to upgrade your system with new OS releases…. that way you’ll find out about computer glitches and incompatibility issues from else where rather than have the headache of dealing with it yourself… these things have caused me my own fair share of problems in the past.
Just my opinion 😉
Mike
Michael Folorunsho
Clicktone Media
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Michael, I completely agree with you. I also normally wait until some patches are released for any new software I buy. Same with hardware, I avoid buying the very first generation for the same reason. But this time I was having so many issues with some footage that a client is sending me that I thought this fine tuning would be beneficial, after all, Apple claims SL is a \”finely tuned\” version of Leopard so I figured what the hell, hopefully all the glitches are gone now, sadly some new arrived an for the future I will wait until someone else has already dealt with them.
Best,
D.
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I have ordered Snow Leopard because Apple says I can upgrade for the cost of shipping (I have a new Mac Pro at home — I’m editing on PCs at work). That discount dies for new Macs in January.
I shall install Snow Leopard when I know that it will work with everything.
Can you tell me if you can install Rosetta in Snow Leopard? I have a fair amount of legacy software that was written for Power PC that I still use on my Intel box — most particularly Intuit’s Quicken.
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
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Yes, you can install Rosetta in Snow Leopard. It is a customary feature on install, and even if you don’t do it then, it will ask you the first time you start a power-pc programm. If you click yes, it will just download Rosetta from Apple’s servers.
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