Bill Vincent
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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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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….