![]() Fast forward to post-upgrade: As with the rest of you, Snow Leopard considered my driver to be incompatible. Up until recently I used the SI reference driver, but after SL was released I did a lot of reading and switched to the latest Sonnet driver. I have an Addonics non-RAID card, which is obviously based on the Sil3132 chipset. And while I am ****** off about the new way SL calculates drive capacity, here is what I have found regarding Sil3132-based eSATA cards: Of course this did not allow me to test my eSATA card as the Macbook does not have an eSATA slot. For this reason I tested Snow Leopard for 2 weeks prior to upgrading this machine on another older Macbook. I am an audio engineer and I use ProTools LE 7.4.2 in an everyday fashion on my Macbook Pro. This will be a long informative post.įirst off let me explain my environment. Ok, while I know this is not the main thread for this, I figure I will post my findings here. ![]() ![]() ), installed it, and that has me up and running. However, I retrieved an older reference driver (v1.1.9) directly from Silicon Image ( SL removed the driver for it during installation because it was "incompatible". +I've got a Sil3132-based Addonics eSATA controller ( Given the fact that Apple has said this is incompatible, I'm not sure I'm going to trust it, especially on one of the drives.įor those though that went ahead and did the update to their main boot drives and can't revert back, perhaps a way to access some of your data. Both my eSATA drives are now visible, with seemingly no ill effect at the moment. maybe trying to update the BIOS of a previous card made me too scared.I've got an eSATA Expresscard 34 from Apiotek with uses Silicon Image driver, based on the post I found in another thread (See Below), I did reinstall the 1.1.9 driver from Silicon Image. Now I wonder why the card in this PC isn't running the latest BIOS. but the cards have run CD/DVD drives for years without an issue. I don't think I've ever run the card as a RAID controller, or if I did I stopped because it wasn't very good (ie slow), so I can't help there either. ![]() I kind of remember using the BIOS flash tool on a card which didn't support updating the BIOS via Device Manager causing that problem. I wish I could be more helpful other than to say. I think after updating, it's BIOS no longer ran at bootup. I do remember having some sort of problem with one of the cards. One has the ability to update the BIOS via Device Manager, but the other has no BIOS tab. I have two XP PCs here, each with the card in question (different manufacturer, I think). the ability to update the BIOS might be dependant on whether the card manufacturer has enabled the option, even though different cards use the same chipset. ![]() I remember going through a head-^&%^$# with these cards years ago, but it's been so long I can't remember any of the details. ![]()
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