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Sonnet Tempo-X eSATA card PCI-X

Heads up to anyone with the Sonnet Tempo-X PCI-X eSATA card. It does not play well with Leopard. Upgrade went ok but system will freeze about 30-60 secs after desktop appears. Spent HOURS with MAC support last night and into early AM Saturday to discover this.

Haven't found new drivers for the card yet and I cannot get at the data on the drives that were connected to it.

Power PC G5 dual 2.3, Mac OS X (10.5), 5.5 GB DDR SDRAM

Posted on Oct 27, 2007 8:24 AM

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jladou

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Nov 4, 2007 7:15 PM in response to stormbureau

I had the same problem as everyone since I upgrade my OS from TIGER to LEOPARD with my RAID and the Sonnet Tempo-X eSATA PCI card. I have instaled the new firmwire 2.1.2 and everything seems OK. My RAID works properly since now two hours.

ZionGM

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Nov 5, 2007 9:26 AM in response to J Reed

Any answers yet on this topic? Our raid is still playing back video at half the rate it did pre 10.5

Nov 6, 2007 1:29 PM in response to ZionGM

OK

I can't claim the credit; the solution came from Neal at Sonnet, it worked for me:

Intel machines don't use firmware on cards. That's why there is a separate Mac Pro driver. You can't update the firmware on the card because you don't need to. Even if you moved the card to a G5 or similar and updated the firmware to 2.12, the Mac Pro would still ignore said firmware.

So you have the correct version of the Mac Pro driver. 2.12 ( http://www.sonnettech.com/support/downloads/computercards.html). You might try this trick and see if it helps:

Delete and empty trash for the three (3) following files and directories:

/System/Library/Extensions.mkext (a file)
/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kernelcaches (a directory)
/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.romextensions (a directory)

The last directory might not exist so don't worry about it if it isn't there. Restart after you do this so OS X will rebuild some of the files.

I had a weird log in screen first time round which hid my password, but got in as guest and then logged out to find that all was fine: disk utility doesn't hang and all is well

Sonnet Tempo-X eSATA card PCI-X