- Person who helps solve this problems – will be mailed a USB 3.0 PCI Sonnet Card –
Card in Question: Sonnet Allegro USB 3.0 PCIe
Problem: I have a Lacie USB 3.0 External Hard Drive. I have a Power Macintosh G5 2.5 Ghz Quad Core Computer with several extra PCI Express slots. I purchased a USB 3.0 card slot hoping that it would be able to run on 10.5.8. Now I know the site says that it only supports 10.6 and later, but I chose this PCIe card for a special reason. After downloading the drivers from Lacie, CalDigit, etc. – the achieve extract of the content package was a .kext file that was universal not Intel – this gave me hope that with some adjustment the PowerPC platform would be able to operate this PCIe card.
Steps I took to make it work:
1. I attempted to run the installer that came with the application / driver, however, when it started the post install script it failed with a message to contact the software manufacturer for support. The contents of the post install script are as follows:
a. echo "source package path: $1"
b. echo "package destination: $2"
c. echo "mount point of dest: $3"
d. echo "installer framework: $4"
e.
f. /usr/sbin/chown -R root:wheel "$2"/SXHCD.kext
g.
h. /usr/bin/touch /System/Library/Extensions
i.
j. exit 0
2. I then tried to place the .kext file into the system extensions folder, however, when I rebooted the computer system the a messaged popped up saying that the “SVHCD.kext” file was installed improperly and to re-install the application or contact the software provider.
I’m not sure what else to do and since the USB .kext files such as iousbfamily, etc. (the other dependencies the driver depends on list 6 other USB dependencies, I didn’t want to touch them all – as I did not know what I was touching.)
Is there something I can alter in the post install script to make the driver install? Let me know any thoughts. As I said above – the person who helps me solve this will get one of these cards as a prize. Hope we can bring USB 3.0 to Leopard and the much under loved and appreciate Power Macintosh G5 systems. My G5 computer runs great and still has many years of use left.
Card in Question: Sonnet Allegro USB 3.0 PCIe
Problem: I have a Lacie USB 3.0 External Hard Drive. I have a Power Macintosh G5 2.5 Ghz Quad Core Computer with several extra PCI Express slots. I purchased a USB 3.0 card slot hoping that it would be able to run on 10.5.8. Now I know the site says that it only supports 10.6 and later, but I chose this PCIe card for a special reason. After downloading the drivers from Lacie, CalDigit, etc. – the achieve extract of the content package was a .kext file that was universal not Intel – this gave me hope that with some adjustment the PowerPC platform would be able to operate this PCIe card.
Steps I took to make it work:
1. I attempted to run the installer that came with the application / driver, however, when it started the post install script it failed with a message to contact the software manufacturer for support. The contents of the post install script are as follows:
a. echo "source package path: $1"
b. echo "package destination: $2"
c. echo "mount point of dest: $3"
d. echo "installer framework: $4"
e.
f. /usr/sbin/chown -R root:wheel "$2"/SXHCD.kext
g.
h. /usr/bin/touch /System/Library/Extensions
i.
j. exit 0
2. I then tried to place the .kext file into the system extensions folder, however, when I rebooted the computer system the a messaged popped up saying that the “SVHCD.kext” file was installed improperly and to re-install the application or contact the software provider.
I’m not sure what else to do and since the USB .kext files such as iousbfamily, etc. (the other dependencies the driver depends on list 6 other USB dependencies, I didn’t want to touch them all – as I did not know what I was touching.)
Is there something I can alter in the post install script to make the driver install? Let me know any thoughts. As I said above – the person who helps me solve this will get one of these cards as a prize. Hope we can bring USB 3.0 to Leopard and the much under loved and appreciate Power Macintosh G5 systems. My G5 computer runs great and still has many years of use left.
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