Snow Leopard Incompatibility With Many eSATA Cards

[Gilles Guillemin]

FYI, the dynex driver trick worked just as fine with my brand new Griffin eSATA expresscard|34 on my MBP 17″ unibody.

Thanks for the tip!

[Wil Friedwald]

so do we have an answer to the problem of 10.6.X / silicon image 3132 incompatibility? I just installed snow leopard yesterday, and to my dismay my eSATA drives are no longer working! Help! (Don’t tell me I have to connect them via USB – oh the pity of it!)

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[David Cabestany]

Did you try the Dynex driver?

[Timo Teravainen]

There’s a new beta driver at Silicon Image support page for Snow Leopard, works for my Macbook Pro/Lacie Esata expresscard.

https://www.siliconimage.com/support/searchresults.aspx?pid=32&cat=3

[Jeff Erwin]

I suspect the people that are still experiencing esata issues with the latest drivers are using RAID, the people that have it working did not use RAID.

Anyone try the HighPoint Esata stuff? They are advertising Snow Leopard compatability, but I don’t know if their card will recognize my existing RAID system that was created with the 3132 SI card. Anyone know anything about RAID?

[Jason Brown]

I just put a HighPoint eSATA card in…RocketRaid 2312

Running 10.5.8

Hooked eSATA to a Big Quadra LaCie 8TB…RAID 0

My drive speed test showed that it was running about 2/3 of what my internal RAID is running.

I’m getting a 2 port LaCie card…I would assume it will be faster.

[Jim Wiseman]

The SI driver just posted says it is a “BASE” non Raid driver. Not much use if that is true. (* SiI 3132 Mac OS X 10.6 & 10.6.1 BASE (non-RAID) BETA)

Anyone tried this with a RAID? Mine are LaCie 2Bigs. Still at 10.5.8 until this is resolved. (w FCP 6.0.6)

Jim Wiseman

[Jeff Erwin]

I tried it with a RAID on my 3132 card, I got a kernel panic while the system was booting.

[Zane Barker]

Because of all the esata driver issues, I am seriously considering moving my drives into a gigabit ethernet enclosure. Thus ending the battle with esata card altogether.

There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[Jeff Erwin]

That’s a great option but it doesn’t help people like me that have a terabyte of stuff on a RAID system they can no longer access because of the 3132 issue. My concern is getting to that data, not setting up a new storage system.