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Snow Leopard Incompatibility With Many eSATA Cards
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[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.”
it would NOT be hard at all for you to get that data and move it to a gigabit ethernet raid.
First off you say you only have a terabyte of data thats not much so I’m betting you have s mall 2-4 drive raid, most enclosures of that size also have a USB connection, I know mine does.
If not it is still VARY
Simply connect your raid to a computer that does not have Snow Leopard or if one is not available simply install 1.4 or 10.5 (what ever version of the OS your machine also supports) onto a firewire drive you probably have a spare you can use if not they are CHEEP. Once booted into the older OS you can now have full access to that data and can move it off.
A 2 drive enclosure with gigabit ethernet is cheep to.
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Macally/NSA2S350NAS/Im sorry but the excuse that the issue needs to be fixed so I can access my data is not a vary good one. If the data was that important you would l have found a way within days of moving to Snow Leopard how you can access it.
Another VARY good way to access it is to simply boot from the clone of your old system that should be made before moving any pro work station to a new OS.
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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Helpful in some ways, but not completely. I used Bootcamp to boot vista, which does support the 3132 card, and it could not see the raid configuration on the Venus raid enclosure I have, which means there is a difference in the way the raid is put together. The Venus box does not have a firewire option, and a Snow Leopard Mac Pro will not boot off a Leopard DVD, at least not on my machine. It just spits the Leopard install DVD out. I was somewhat hopeful that this idea might work.
My backups are on the RAID system, silly me for using a redundant error-correcting system for my backups. I also don’t have another Mac Pro sitting around.
So, I am going to have to wait for Silicon Image to get around to creating a RAID driver for the 3132 card that actually works on Snow Leopard.
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I’m returning a Dat Optic 4 port eSATA board I got from OWC 3 weeks ago for a new MacPro – which had Snow Leopard installed. The board worked some of the time with 1 eSATA drive connected only. OWC got me a beta version of SI’s driver, which still does not work with multiple drives and caused major problems when the computer would start up at all. I upgraded SL to 10.6.2 today, and it’s still not working.
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I installed the SI beta linked above. So far so good.
However I transferred a 25.37GB .mov file and Activity Monitor showed a peak of 75Mb/Sec.
Shouldn’t it be faster than that? I feel I was getting that with FW800.I’m running a
17″MBP (10.6.2, 2.8 GHz Core 2 duo w/4GB DDR3),
Griffin Expresscard/34 eSATA, (SiliconImage3132.kext, from the link above)
IOMEGA 1TB UltraMax (eSATA, FW800/400, USB 2.0)Thanks,
Matthew Carnes
https://carnesaudio.com
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hey david,
i had leoprad and had one esata card which worked great.
oneday i installed snow leopard, since that my card did not work anymore.
i searched everywhere and bought 4 cards from internet.
no one work.
finaly i bought one from germany and this one works.
i can install snowleopard on harddisk attached to this card, it works, i can format and install again and again it works.
i can boot.
i can cut videos and write directly to the harddisk and the card works.
the card works 12 hours no mistakes, no frozen os.
i have an ssd hd from kingstone.
my snow leopard boots in less than 7 seconds.the card from germany i found on https://www.leaf-computer.de it is 1 port esata card calls LCOSBOOTER-1P
i paid 48usd for the card + 15usd for the shipping. -
After reading all of this my heart just sank. I have a brand new Mac Pro 2.66 dual processor system, and am receiving a LaCie 4-big Quadra drive today. I bought (before I found this thread) a Silicon Image eSATA express card yesterday. I tried installing it and the Mac Pro (running Snow Leopard) did not see the card under System Profiler. I tried downloading the “beta” driver from SI, and still no luck. I downloaded the driver from Dynex too, with again no luck.
I have not seen the Kernel panic stuff happen – but again, the card isn’t showing up in Profiler either. I’m trying to decide whether to take the SI card back and order the LaCie PCI Express card. Can anyone confirm whether the LaCie PCI card actually works in Snow Leopard? Does it use the 3132 chipset as the SI card does?
Overall, should I return the LaCie Quadra? Is there any way to get eSATA speed with ANY RAID system out there on Snow Leopard? Thanks in advance for your comments/suggestions….
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I have one 1TB and one 2TB LaCie 2Big Raids. With the 2 port standard LaCie SI3132 PCIe card in a late 2005 Quadcore G5 I had problems copying files from one drive to another before a system freeze or Finder case of “brainlessness”. Pulled that card and have been using them w the Firewire 800 interface since. They would however seem to work individually with the eSata card, but I never trusted the card after that. I would not think that the cheaper LaCie would be a great idea with Snow Leopard and your new Mac Pro.
I would think that the 4 port LaCie would work, as the driver for that has been listed as compatible with 10.6. It is however quite a bit more expensive. If you go that route, or some other let us know what works or doesn’t. I don’t think the problem is with your LaCie 4Big drives, however.
Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 1.1.2, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi Avid MC, Macbook Pro Core2Duo, G5 Quadcore PCIe, Media 100i/XR -
I’m using the LaCie Big Quadra with the LaCie 2 port eSata card:
FCP7 – Snow Leopardhttps://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=11068
It is working flawlessly for me.
-Jason
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I was able to get the eSATA card working by downloading the Sonnet driver and installing it. (Tempo SATA E2P driver – https://www.sonnettech.com/support/kb/kb.php?cat=339&expand=&action=a3#a3
The driver uses the 3132 chipset and it worked for my card – my machine recognized it. I picked up my Quadra today, and after configuring and partitioning for RAID 5 it’s working fine. My typical throughput is 80 – 90 MBps – better than Firewire, but not a whole lot. It would probably be much faster on RAID 0, but I want the safety with RAID 5.
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Jason,
Have you been able to copy from one eSata drive to another using the two eSata ports on the LaCie card? I was able to run one drive at time (RAID 2Big LaCie’s 1TB and a 2TB) but was never able to copy files reliably between the two when they were connected using both ports. LaCie replaced both drives and replaced the PCIe card you had the link to in your post, but still the same problem.
Has anyone else had this problem with the LaCie card? I think it comes down to the SI 3132 chip on the card.
Jim Wiseman
Sony PMW-EX1,Pana AJ-D810 DVCPro, DVX-100, Final Cut Studio 2 and 3, Media 100 Suite 1.1.2, AJA ioHD, AJA Kona LHi Avid MC, Macbook Pro Core2Duo, G5 Quadcore PCIe, Media 100i/XR
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