[Nir Shelter]

Hi Gary
Yes I did I tried then un installing it and re installing it again several times and with several different versions rather than just the latest.

I also tried re installing the reader’s drivers on the second machine but got the same results.

Has anybody had any problems using Sonnet QIO PCIe with OSX10.8.5?

Am trying to avoid Maverix as much as possible at this stage.

Thanks, Nir.

Nir Shelter
Data Wrangler/DIT/3D Engineer

edit

Have also posted this on a SOny forum here is an additional set of reults I got from a few more experiments:

I am using a Sonnet QIO connected to a PCIe card and can confirm that the problems is with Sonnet’s QIO driver.

I put an SXS to SD card adapter in the same SXS slot with an SD card in it and it mounted on the system just fine. This means that the SXS slot in the QIO is functioning correctly. In addition I plugged a USB2 SXS reader into the machine in a separate USB2 slot and the SXS card mounted just fine.

I even tried the whole experiment on a different Macpro from a later year running OSX 10.8.5 and got the same results.

This tells me that somehow the QIO driver has not been updated to work well with OSX10.8.5 and Sony’s SXS drivers.

Would be great to hear back from Sonnet about this.

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[Nir Shelter]

Hi Ian.

Yes I did install the drivers in the correct order and re installed after removing all system extensions and again in the correct order.

I am using a Sonnet QIO connected to a PCIe card and can confirm that the problems is with Sonnet’s QIO driver.

I put an SXS to SD card adapter in the same SXS slot with an SD card in it and it mounted on the system just fine. This means that the SXS slot is functioning correctly. In addition I plugged a USB2 SXS reader into the machine in a separate USB2 slot and the SXS card mounted just fine.

I even tried the whole experiment on a different Macpro from a later year running OSX 10.8.5 and got the same results.

This tells me that somehow the QIO driver has not been updated to work well with OSX10.8.5 and Sony’s SXS drivers.

If anyone from Sonnet can shed some light on this that would be greatly appreciated. Currently this expensive card reader is not functioning according to the manufacturer’s description.

Also have had to cancel a second purchase of a new QIO I made and paid for after the reseller tested and found the same results I found. Simply because it would not do what it is meant to do.

Really bad when drivers arn’t updated regularly.

Cheers, Nir.

Nir Shelter
Data Wrangler/DIT/3D Engineer
http://www.datashelter.com.au

[Nir Shelter]

Figured it out was the mini SAS cable after all:
Apparently we were using a type CL2 cable thinner than the usual and when switched to a type CMG cable the thicker type we got through-puts of 1600 MBs raid 0 and 1200+ raid 6.

Nir Shelter
Data Wrangler/DIT/3D Engineer
http://www.datashelter.com.au

[Nir Shelter]

Thanks guys.

Have checked the R680 and raid on a different Macpro not sure what year it was manufactured. For a raid level 6 the disk speed test reached 1200MBs likely it is the host machine having problems with the R680. Am replacing this one on Monday with a different 2010 machine will test the R680/Raid and post the results.

Nir.

Nir Shelter
Data Wrangler/DIT/3D Engineer
http://www.datashelter.com.au