Tom Klein
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Are you doing this on a G4 or G5,
What OS (Tiger or Leopard) are you using on the G4.I have a G4 with 10.4.8 Tiger and P2 works great…also a Intel Macpro with current Leopard 10.5.6 and FCS, works great too.
Your questions are confusing…
Tom K
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Hi David,
“Backing up” to me is no where near like the old days of dubbing a back up video tape for storage, P2 in my opinion has some way to go, but it has made advances, sure not as fast as we’d like, but it is developing.
My Amtron reader in my Macpro takes about 18mins to off load a full 32 gig card to my work drives, that’s just over 3 times realtime, much better than having to ingest 72 mins realtime.
If the Sonnet can better that with eSATA up to or near the level of my Novia HDD (Ten Times realtime) I would be a happy man..Cheers
Tom Kolinevideo.com.au
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In my position, I’ll get a Qio with the Expresscard adapter so that I can hook it to a Macbook Pro and edit and layback a compile clip to a P2 card for news playouts, big advantage in my bussiess.
Then to able to Hook the Qio up to the studio Macpro with one eSATA cable, will be Nirvana.The Price tag is less then 30% of the Pana readers and has signifigant adavantages indeed for Mac users.
Cheers
Tom K
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Hi Dan,
I’ve had contact with many P2 users who are begging for a 100% solution for the Mac Line up, the Duel adapter satisfies those that don’t want to spend any more than $100 and if it works for them, that’s a bonus.
There are also Many (I’m One) who don’t mind paying a price for a product that performs on a Platform they use, Like the Macpro.
Personally I cannot justify the cost of the Pana card reader in my bussiness, and i’ve spoken to many institutions who have multiple Macpro’s, teaching the next generation of Media people, and can’t afford/justify the cost to have a Pana reader for every Mac workstation in teir facilities.The Macpro with it’s PCIe slots has been a challenge to get a card reader that will work with it, the OS Leopard is also primarily for expresscard / USB2 / FW, and PCMCIA (PC card / P2 ) is not popular anymore in the apple world.
Windows is a simple fix just get an old PCI Amtron reader and your away for under $100, or even a rear entry reader for much less.For Sonnet to release a product that has many advantages other than that of just a simple card reader is fantastic, in the Macpro you will have spare fast transfer eSATA slots that you could hook up many external drives, thats a huge bonus.
I Can’t wait to get my hands on a Qio. I have two Sonnet eSTA cards one in my Macpro and one in my older G4 Dual 1.25, both work extreemly well, in theory I could just connect the Qio card reader to one of the eSATA ports and maybe load a Kext driver and begin using it.
Until it arrives I’ll keep using my Single Amtron reader.Cheers
Tom Kolinevideo.com.au
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Tried to Up load the image But didn’t gewt it to happen so I posted it on my site, for anyone who’s interested.
https://www.olinevideo.com.au/page12.htm
cheers
Tom Kolinevideo.com.au
Hi Jeremy,
Thanks so much for checking out The Qio, Sonnet will make a Bundle form this reader, It’s been a long wait for such a unit, I wish them all the success, (mine will be ordered shortly)
With the release of the E series P2 cards and now this , it will drive Panasonic P2 back to the Head of the pack in Pro video I believe.
Cheers
TomK
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Hi Michael,
a very late update…
A friend just tried the Rear PCIe to Expresscard then plugged the Duel adapter into it, Did not work in his Macpro.
Cheers
Tom K
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Hi Gabe,
You bought this Adapter and it shows in your sys profiler as loaded, so it should work.
10f7 is Panasonic’s ID,
insert a P2 card into the adapter and insert it into your lappy then re boot , then go to sys profiler “Contents / PC Cards” and see if the P2 card is shown there, if it is, it’s a goer, if not, use it on a windows box, or as a paper weight, then go back to using your PCD35.
Cheers
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