[Loren Latker]

That was then, this is now with 10.6.1 Snow Leopard.

I have a Lycom 4 Port PCI Express Host Card which is basically now a door stop with 10.6. I don’t use or need RAID and have the card jumper set to JBOD.

The card was installed when I upgraded to 10.6 and then 10.61, and seemed to function. Then last week I started getting kernel panics, which stopped when I removed the card. There went five external backup drives!

I don’t want to spend $288 for the Sonnet card after just spending $180 for the Lycom three months ago, but I don’t trust that there will be an updated driver for the Lycom card anytime soon. So what to do, other than buy another card?

The HighPoint RocketRaid 2314 Serial ATA II Controller Card is only $169 from Digiconcepts, but is it the same as the one HighPoint says is Snow Leopard ready out of the box? I assume it will support my five external SATA drives in JBOD just like the Lycom, and be no more difficult to set up? After all, I already have HighPointIOP.kext and HighPointRR.kext in System/Library/Extensions.

Any insight will be appreciated. Thanks.