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Jeff Erwin
October 21, 2009 at 7:30 pm in reply to: Snow Leopard Incompatibility With Many eSATA Cards

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.
Jeff Erwin
October 21, 2009 at 5:03 pm in reply to: Snow Leopard Incompatibility With Many eSATA Cards

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.
Jeff Erwin
October 21, 2009 at 3:29 pm in reply to: Snow Leopard Incompatibility With Many eSATA Cards

I tried it with a RAID on my 3132 card, I got a kernel panic while the system was booting.
Jeff Erwin
October 20, 2009 at 6:53 pm in reply to: Snow Leopard Incompatibility With Many eSATA Cards

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?