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external caddy esata help

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jessejames690

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Dec 23, 2012
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Hi folks,

Long time reader first time post.

My PC has just given up this morning and I have an external esata caddy with 4 1tb drives in. These are all formatted to NTFS however I do have paragon ntfs on my 2009 MB pro.

I have an express card/34 3gbs card plugged into the relevant slot on the MB however the drives are not coming up on the mac? anyone got an idea why?

I literally have all my work on these hard drives and need access to them.

Thanks in advance
 
hi

no not showing up in disk utility

the card is an ExpressCard/34 Raid5 esata2 3gbps (thats all it says on the card)
 
From some furious google searches it looks like a Vydeo Express Card 34 but finding the driver is proving difficult
 
Go to System Profiler ( Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and earlier ) or System Report ( Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and later) in your Utilities folder (CMD+SHIFT+U while in Finder), then select Hardware > PCI Cards and look for the Device ID.
In the following screenshot, it is "0x3132" and I used it to find Mac drivers for my cheap Sitecom ExpressCard via "mac drivers 3132" as search terms for a www search engine, which provided me with Silicon Image drivers for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard in my case.
The card works, I get the occasional kernel panic (once every seven insert operations), but that is okay, since it is not used for critical purposes.

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ExpressCard:

Type: SATA Controller
Driver Installed: No
MSI: No
Bus: PCI
Slot: ExpressCard
Vendor ID: 0x1095
Device ID: 0x3132
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x1095
Subsystem ID: 0x3132
Revision ID: 0x0001
Link Width: x1
Link Speed: 2.5 GT/s

So i installed the sillicon drivers, still no go.
 
jessejames690 said:
ExpressCard:

Type: SATA Controller
Driver Installed: No
MSI: No
Bus: PCI
Slot: ExpressCard
Vendor ID: 0x1095
Device ID: 0x3132
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x1095
Subsystem ID: 0x3132
Revision ID: 0x0001
Link Width: x1
Link Speed: 2.5 GT/s

So i installed the sillicon drivers, still no go.
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Did you restart? And what exact drivers (link or screenshot) did you use? And what Mac OS X version do you have?
 
jessejames690 said:
Snow leopard 10.7.5 and i did restart

link i used http://www.siliconimage.com/support/searchresults.aspx?pid=32&cat=3

thanks for your continued help.
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I myself have Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (10.6.8) and use that "same" ExpressCard, but it seems you run Mac OS X 10.7 Lion (10.7.5), and for that there are no drivers listed. It may just be incompatible with your OS and you have to get another ExpressCard that works with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.

Mac OS X versions in the last ten years (numbers and names):

  • Mac OS X 10.3 Panther
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger
  • Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
  • Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
  • Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
  • OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion

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Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63) ha, I really don't remember upgrading to lion but I must of done at some point!

Damn is that the end of the matter then.

Sonnett Express 34 Card required then !!!
 
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