Hi guys,
I just received an Express card usb 3 adaptor card with twin usb 3 ports. When I pored over the various options before purchasing this card, it implied that it was plug and play though did not say it directly and so i selected this particular seller over the other choices on ebay because it was the particular model of card I'd seen alternatives for as far as drivers are concerned so if it wasn't plug and play I'd have a fallback and it just looked the most reputable.
Thing is I wasn't real confident in those alternatives and though they sound succesful and are open source, I've heard things like not support isoch endpoints which are needed in video streaming which I suspect might make them fairly useless for video editing across external drives which is my intended use for the card.
The seller packaged the card with paper telling me to request the drivers via email over which he sent a software package of drivers. I don't feel real comfortable installing such drivers especially with no apparent vendor or source code or attached virus scan of the software.
My questions is really 3 fold:
-does anyone know of any reliable well functioning drivers for the above mentioned device for mac os x 10.7.5?
-does anyone know how I can with reasonable confidence test for malware/viruses/trojans etc on a given file or folder on a mac?
-the packaged software uses package installers and software called kext wizard to install the drivers which are presumably kexts, does anyone know what type of damage or potential malware could be injected in to my system through such a delivery mechanism if it turns out the seller did have mal-intent after all?
I'm very tempted to just go ahead and install anyway because I so want this card to work and the seller has 99.5% positive feedback and the card itself seems legit and is detected by my system (just doesn't function as a usb 3 controller without drivers). But you know, it does kind of seem like just opening the floodgates.
I just received an Express card usb 3 adaptor card with twin usb 3 ports. When I pored over the various options before purchasing this card, it implied that it was plug and play though did not say it directly and so i selected this particular seller over the other choices on ebay because it was the particular model of card I'd seen alternatives for as far as drivers are concerned so if it wasn't plug and play I'd have a fallback and it just looked the most reputable.
Thing is I wasn't real confident in those alternatives and though they sound succesful and are open source, I've heard things like not support isoch endpoints which are needed in video streaming which I suspect might make them fairly useless for video editing across external drives which is my intended use for the card.
The seller packaged the card with paper telling me to request the drivers via email over which he sent a software package of drivers. I don't feel real comfortable installing such drivers especially with no apparent vendor or source code or attached virus scan of the software.
My questions is really 3 fold:
-does anyone know of any reliable well functioning drivers for the above mentioned device for mac os x 10.7.5?
-does anyone know how I can with reasonable confidence test for malware/viruses/trojans etc on a given file or folder on a mac?
-the packaged software uses package installers and software called kext wizard to install the drivers which are presumably kexts, does anyone know what type of damage or potential malware could be injected in to my system through such a delivery mechanism if it turns out the seller did have mal-intent after all?
I'm very tempted to just go ahead and install anyway because I so want this card to work and the seller has 99.5% positive feedback and the card itself seems legit and is detected by my system (just doesn't function as a usb 3 controller without drivers). But you know, it does kind of seem like just opening the floodgates.