Looking for a USB 3.0 card for my 2008 Mac Pro, vs 3.1 running OS 10.10.
Tried Cal Digit but then unable to start my Mac at all. Card being returned to check it out.
Interested primarily in 3.0 to use with memory card reader + possibly to speed up printer, etc.
Any good recommendations?
I could not find any recent posts concerning this issue
Thanks
Have you tried:
AAZ wrote:
Looking for a USB 3.0 card for my 2008 Mac Pro, vs 3.1 running OS 10.10.
Tried Cal Digit but then unable to start my Mac at all. Card being returned to check it out.
Interested primarily in 3.0 to use with memory card reader + possibly to speed up printer, etc.
Any good recommendations?
I could not find any recent posts concerning this issue
Thanks
You may have gotten a faulty card. I have a first-generation CalDigit USB3/eSATA card in my 2010 Mac Pro, and have had no problems. I tried a first-gen card in a 2006 Mac Pro also, and it worked well with Leopard through Lion in that machine; just not with Tiger. Trying to boot from the Tiger drive with the card installed resulted in a kernel panic.
A USB 3 card may not work with all kinds of attached devices, however. What printer are you trying to speed up? Does it have a USB 3 port?
Try following card. It's compatible with Mac.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1016794-REG/sonnet_usb3_4pm_e_allegro_usb_ 3_0_pcie.html
Thanks, My Mac would not even start with the CalDig card, just "Clicked" on then second later off without startup.
Card is being returned to check it out & will probably try one more time
Thx
That's next card to try.
Good luck w Sonnet in past + B&H always wonderful to deal with
I will try the site, Thx
It might be interesting that I once tried this card:
ORICO PFU3-2O2I USB-3.0-PCI-Express-Steckkarte (Low profile, 2x USB3.0 intern, 2x USB3.0 extern, Fresco FL1100-Chipsatz)
and it was a catastrophe. I had an external 3 gb USB3 drive and got nothing than data corruption ("volume must be repaired"). The same drive worked fine with any of the built-in USB 2 ports. Also a USB 2 stick seemed to work fine with the USB 3 ports.
AAZ wrote:
Looking for a USB 3.0 card for my 2008 Mac Pro, vs 3.1 running OS 10.10.
Tried Cal Digit but then unable to start my Mac at all. Card being returned to check it out...
Which CalDigit card did you try (the current version is the "Pro" model) and which slot did you put it in? If it's the Pro, that's looking for a PCI Express 2.0 slot and only two of your four slots are 2.0; the others are 1.1.
USB 3.0 in a 2008 Mac Pro 3.1 running OS10.10
