Brand New PCI USB 2 but wont sleep

Hi Scott,

I'm probably the one that suggested the card to you.

I have found the behaviour that you describe on external drives in general. Many card readers will do this as well and I'm not sure why.

While they should sleep fine they frequently do not. I have a firewire external drive that sometimes sleeps fine and sometimes does not. Go figure. My "solution" has been to dismount the external and disconnect it before sleeping. My suspicion is that there is something in the way that Apple's disk arbitration is implemented and that they frequently only work when the standards are rigidly followed by manufacturers (which they frequently are not).

By the way, when your mac does this it is not sleeping. It has actually crashed and you should run Disk Utility from the cd (unless they have fixed fsck on Tiger).

nothing wrong with your Mac. search www.XLR8yourmac.com look under articles/firewire/pci cards. you're not alone.

Certain expansion cards support sleep, others do not. Sometimes it depends on the brand name (manufacturer). I once bought a generic PCI card and my tower wouldn't sleep. I returned it for a Belkin PCI card that works great. The Belkin costs more, but you get what you pay for.

Hi Tony, I just installed nec pci usb 2.0 card and my mac doesn't wake up from sleep if ipod is connected to it. Could you please tell me how is you belkin working. Does you system wake up if anything is connected on usb 2.0 port ?. Also, there are 4 different belkin cards available of newegg, which one you are using ?.

Thanks.

I have my 40gb iPod connected thru USB 2 and my computer sleeps and wakes just fine. I'm using a Belkin USB 2.0 Hi-Speed 3-Port PCI Card
Part # F5U219-APL

On Belkin's site it says $40.00 but I think I got my at Staples for around $30.00

They also have a 5-port version...I think thats a better value since you get more ports per PCI slot.

Good luck!

Thanks Tony, I am going to get it today from staples.

I bought 5 port belkin and computer doesn't wake up from sleep even when ipod is dismounted.

Tony, does you computer wake up when ipod is connected ?.

I have also tried dvcentury $11 nec card and the same behaviour.

you don't need to ask questions. none work with deep sleep and drives attached. printers are a different story.

I couldn't get my I/O Gear USB 2.0 card to work with my 20" Cinema Display attached. I took it out and put it in a PC.

I am using a USB2 card based on the NEC chipset which supports deepsleep.

Regards

Nicolas

Nicolas,

What kind (brand) of card is it? Can your Mac sleep with devices plugged into the card?

Good question, there is no branding on the card the only thing is a controller chip from NEC. The cad shows up as pci9710,1906:

And yes the Mac can go to sleep mode (this is what I ment with DeepSleep support).

Regards

Nicolas

Yes, my tower sleeps and wakes just fine when the iPod is connected. And it does go fully into deep sleep. Im not sure what else to do to help you fix your situation, sorry.