Bootable eSATA PCIe Card ?

Hello,
I have a Mac Pro 8 Cores
is there any one can suggest a good eSATA Card so I can connect my External Drive and be able to boot Windows from it (Boot Camp)?
something like this:
http://www.lacie.com/no/products/product.htm?pid=10839
http://www.lacie.com/no/products/product.htm?pid=11068
I have already Apple's Raid card with 4 WD Raptors (Raid0), and I need to use windows for a task (program) that is not exists on OSX and as most of you know I can not install Windows (Boot Camp) on my system because of Apple's RAID Card
I do not want to use VMware or any Virtualization!
Thank you

Hi,
The best way to use boot camp is with one of the internal Mac Pro bays. If you plan your system configuration for Boot Camp use with an internal Mac Pro bay it will always work.
Boot camp typically will not mount if a 3rd party controller is used. If you want to make life easier move boot camp to the internal Mac Pro bay.
From my tests, Boot camp Windows volumes will not boot if they are mounted on Silicon Image based cards, Sonnet cards, Areca cards or HighPoint cards. You might find another solution but the deck is stacked against you
Have fun!

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Compatible eSATA PCIe Card

Hi Gang
Back here again beginning to realize a familiar trend; many newer PCIe eSATA cards will not function in older G5 Dual Core with 10.4.11
New System Drive, 2 fresh OSX installs, no hardware modifications. 'No Sleep' options ALWAYS selected.
Relocated ALL 6 Drives to totally independent eSATA enclosures NO BRIDGE. All data thoroughly checked with Disk Warrior. Cables tight and secure.
Tried the Tempo SATA E2P, will not show up in Profiler (Specs show Mac Pro Only).
Tried both FirmTek SeriTek/2ME4-E & FirmTek SeriTek 2SE2-E. Will work for a while until system freezes, (Specs Vague). Tech Support Puzzled despite Firmware Flashes forward and backward. Freezes NEVER occur thru FW800.
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OWC Speedy3G 2 port PCI-e SATA card - SOLD OUT
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You mentioned; 'cheap OWC eSata card' was that the 'Speedy3G'?
Yes, that's the one, not bootable, but...
Are you watching the Eagles?
Nope, I'm at work, as I am 12 hours a day 365+ days a year. (Don't ever go into Biz for yourself, your Boss can be a real hard nose!).
Is your your Quad water cooled?
Yes, I think all the Quads are.
Here's a non Raid, single drive test to the Voyager Quad interface test...
QuickBench™ 3.0 Test Results
©2000-2006 Intech Software Corp.
Test file created on Sunday, November 28, 2010 at 2:32:08 PM
Test Volume Name: WD1GBBlack
Test Volume Type: MacOS Extended
Test Volume Size: 931.388 Gigabytes
Test Volume Free Space: 452.862 Gigabytes
Allow Write Cache Purges: Enabled
32 KBytes 67.95 MB/Sec 14.901 MB/Sec 66.01 MB/Sec 30.440 MB/Sec
64 KBytes 81.86 MB/Sec 34.641 MB/Sec 29.237 MB/Sec 38.426 MB/Sec
128 KBytes 92.067 MB/Sec 44.476 MB/Sec 50.825 MB/Sec 30.460 MB/Sec
256 KBytes 88.908 MB/Sec 41.666 MB/Sec 95.445 MB/Sec 46.487 MB/Sec
512 KBytes 96.854 MB/Sec 48.114 MB/Sec 65.933 MB/Sec 84.815 MB/Sec
1024 KBytes 89.723 MB/Sec 65.837 MB/Sec 87.468 MB/Sec 79.481 MB/Sec
Extended Test Results:
Test Cycles: 1
Ext. Xfer Size Extended Read Extended Write
2 MBytes 67.458 MB/Sec 79.199 MB/Sec
3 MBytes 110.32 MB/Sec 75.683 MB/Sec
4 MBytes 111.33 MB/Sec 72.823 MB/Sec
5 MBytes 109.11 MB/Sec 40.182 MB/Sec
6 MBytes 113.39 MB/Sec 75.857 MB/Sec
7 MBytes 105.89 MB/Sec 35.990 MB/Sec
8 MBytes 101.80 MB/Sec 88.206 MB/Sec
9 MBytes 104.42 MB/Sec 80.977 MB/Sec
10 MBytes 109.20 MB/Sec 73.313 MB/Sec
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Sonnet eSATA PCIe card prevents waking from sleep mode

Tried 2 x (removing card and then reinstalling). If the MacPro goes into sleep mode with the E4P card installed (v2.1.7 driver), then it will not wake up (mouse, keyboard or power button). Only recourse is power off.
Looks like a new driver required from Sonnet.

A new driver, version 2.1.8b1, is available.
Email Neal via [email protected] to obtain it.
He said that 10 users have already installed it and so far are happy.
Be sure to provide him with feedback in case it needs a little more tweaking.
Sonnet's responsiveness has been great ~/~
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www.wildliferhythms.com

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I have a Seagate eSata External Drive which comes with an eSATA PCI card.
The http://www.cwol.com/serial-ata/esata-pci-express-1-ext-1-int.htm site recommends this card: eSATA PCI Express Card - 1 eSATA II and 1 Internal SATA II Port, but it doesn't specify whether it works on a Mac Pro - any suggestions?
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Hi
I think the Radeon 9800 is certainly the most powerful graphics card you could buy for your G4 and would do everything you need.
Just be aware there are at least 3 different Mac versions though.
There's a G5 version, the Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Special Edition, which is 8X AGP and has 256MB VRAM.
There's an older Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition, which is 2X/4X AGP and has 128MB VRAM.
Finally there's a newer Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition, which is 2X/4X AGP and has 256MB VRAM.
So long as you get one of the 2X/4X AGP versions, either with 128MB or 256MB VRAM, it should work fine.
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I hope this helps.

MacPro eSata Port/Card doesn't work with new Hard Disk

I just bought 4 x 3TB Hard Disc http://tinyurl.com/d2rglvn (specs of disc)
Which I put in Macally Enclosures to work on my Barracuda internal Hard Drive externally http://tinyurl.com/clg8yjo
I already have like 5 x 1,5 TB that works perfectly well with eSata connections (with exact same enclosures)
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pci1095,3132:
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MSI:    No
Bus:    PCI
Slot:    Slot-2
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
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Do I need to update my PCI Card ? If yes how can I do that ?
If not, what can I do to make my disc work ?
My disks are eSata III (6GB/s) is it compatible with my Mac Pro ?
Thank you Very Much for your time

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Doesn't Work : **3TB, SATA III (6Gb/s), 3.5", 7200RPM, 64MB
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PCIe card to enable bootable SATA3 SSD on early 2008 mac pro?

Hello all,
Looking to get some feedback on the potential workability of this upgrade for my early 2008 MacPro (16GB RAM running OSX 10.6.7). I work in video post production so I need speed though not necessarily a lot of space.
Here is what I'm thinking:
BOOT DRIVE: Internal 240GB SSD (OWC SATA3)
- Power via optical bay via adapter cable
- Data via PCIe SATA3 card and cable running out the back
Was thinking of this card:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-PCI-E-SATA-3-0-SATA-III-Card-6Gb-s-eSata-ASM1061-/16 0583982904?pt=UK_Computing_ComputerComponents_InterfaceCard
as it seems to be the same as this but cheaper:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/MXPCIE6GS2/
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- Will the SSD be bootable with the PCIe card linked above? It appears to be the same one that OWC sells but cheaper?
- Is the speed increase with the PCI card/SATA3 SSD really worth all the fuss or should I just get a SATA2 SSD? I've read on barefeats that SATA3 SSDs can actually be slower than SATA2 SSDs when not in a SATA3 connection
- Any bottlenecks you can see for limiting my speeds? Will the total transfers max out at 1gbps and do you think this will push that?
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115072

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I have a Macbook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz and I'm having trouble getting an eSATA PCI Express card to be recognized in either MAS OS X (10.5.6) or Win XP SP3.
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Does anyone have any ideas as to what I can try?
Hi,
Typically, this type of issue is caused by an incompatible enclosure or a card problem.
Please provide a link to the card and the enclosure for additional help. If you need an ExprressCard/enclosure combination that works I would suggest FirmTek.
http://firmtek.stores.yahoo.net/sata2ensm2e.html
http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/firmtek/2en2/
Have fun!

4 port Esata PCIe 8x card crashes mac pro

Hi
I now have purchased a couple different PCIe esata cards. A cheap one at Best Buy that the drivers crashed my computer. So I bought and expensive 4 port card that is suppose to be compatible with a Mac Pro. Loaded the newest drivers from the site and guess what it crashes my computer. I had a powermac G5 prior and it worked fine with a esata pcix card. Any suggestions???

Hi kasmik;
Your PowerMac G5 used Open Firmware and the Mac Pro that you are running now uses EFI. So the old PCIe card doesn't have the correct code in RAM to run with the Mac Pro.
Allan

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I've to admit, it's new to me, and I believed to many others as well.
How old do you feel PCIE technology is?
To me, 3 years ago, Intel annouces PCIE platform to take over AGP and PCI on the number of parity bits handled to make smoother and faster communication with the board.
About 1 year later, nvidia annouces SLi to bridge 2 PCIE x16 GPUs for faster performance, following by ATI's Crossfire several months later.
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PCIe card for eSATA drives - and 10.6

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http://www.siliconimage.com/products/product.aspx?pid=27
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Does anyone know of a PCIe card that can run eSATA drives under 10.6 ???
I can't believe that 10.6 was released without a driver to support external hard drives - other than consumer USB boxes.
Sometimes I fear that Apple is becoming a music store - and forgetting its role in supporting the graphics industry that helped found it. PCs run Photoshop faster than do Mac Pros with CS4 -- and now I can't even store my images with 10.6 !!!!!!!!
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CIAVT wrote:
Use the Sonnet tech cards, they have a 10.6 compatibility matrix in the support section of their site. Yes, I paid more for the card when I got it, but I haven't had any headaches with it at all. I guess you get what you pay for.
This is good advice for both PCIe and Expresscard. I have discussed this with Sonnet and I think they regret the cheap/expensive strategy owing to the lack of support on SI drivers. They did lower the price on the Expresscard/34 Pro by 1/3 , or $100.
I still have their E2P (PCIe Si 2 port based card) and an Expresscard/34 (non-Pro) available cheap for anyone who thinks Si drivers are a good value.
The new 64 bit driver will be nice for the handful that run in a true 64 bit boot situation which won't be many and is not really necessary at all anyway. OF course if you have one 32 bit driver you need then that won't be a viable option.

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Hello all,
I have carefully read the topics concerning the Apple RAID card and its inability to run Boot Camp. Of course, I read this after placing my order. I have been mulling over my alternatives based on everyone's input. Here is what I want to do and how I think I can get there:
My system, when it finally arrives and is assembled will be:
Mac Pro 3.2GHz
12MG RAM
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Apple RAID Card
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Problem 2: Boot Camp. Can I purchase the Newer Technology extender cable to access the two eSATA ports on the Mac's motherboard to attach an external SATA drive for this purpose?
Questions:
1) I assume I can set up an external RAID (another RAID 5?) with my OWC drives and use Time Machine to back up to them?
2) From the illustration in the Mac Pro manual I downloaded, there appear to be only 4 PCIe slots, but 5 openings (one seems to be aligned with the back-up battery). I assume this is the double-wide space for the graphics card. Can I use the extra opening for the Newer Tech ports since there is no card taking up space?
3) Should I remove the Apple RAID card (resell on ebay) and buy the CalDigit RAID Card? It has the virture of allowing a Boot Camp install AND has ports that I can buy SAS to eSATA cables for, allowing me to use all of my OWC drives.
The CalDigit Card sounds good, but I would like to make the Apple card work if I can. Also, with the OPTIONAL battery back-up, the CalDigit card isn't that much less than the Apple card. Besides, I cannot find this card anywhere, everyone's at NAB, and it's Passover next week. AND I need to get this system up and running ASAP so I can begin making the money to pay for it.
Any input would be most welcome.
Gary

Problem 1: In order to use my existing OWC RAID enclosures, I need TWO controller cards, each with 4 eSATA connectors. Unless I scrap the 500GB drives for 1TB drives, I am stuck.
You could get new enclosures with SATA port multipliers for up to five drives per SATA port.
Am I correct in assuming I cannot use Slot 2 for another controller card? Is there any work around?
Apple says any PCI-e card should work in slot 2
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Conceptual/HWtechPCI/Articles/pciimplementation.html#>
"Mac Pro detects whether an inserted card is PCIe 2.0 (5.0 GHz) or PCIe (2.5 GHz) and selects the operation depending on the card's maximum capability."
but there have been reports of trouble (maybe caused by the recent firmware update). Check with the card maker to be sure.
Problem 2: Boot Camp. Can I purchase the Newer Technology extender cable to access the two eSATA ports on the Mac's motherboard to attach an external SATA drive for this purpose?
No. Those ports are only usable from OSX, but if you only have one optical drive, you can mount another drive in the lower optical drive bay with a Pro Caddy for use with Boot Camp.
<http://www.transintl.com/store/category.cfm?Category=2704&RequestTimeOut=500>
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<http://www.pcconnection.com/IPA/Shop/Product/Detail.htm?sku=7252016>
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1) I assume I can set up an external RAID (another RAID 5?) with my OWC drives and use Time Machine to back up to them?
Yes
2) From the illustration in the Mac Pro manual I downloaded, there appear to be only 4 PCIe slots, but 5 openings (one seems to be aligned with the back-up battery). I assume this is the double-wide space for the graphics card. Can I use the extra opening for the Newer Tech ports since there is no card taking up space?
It looks like it should work if you route the cables just above the graphics card.
<http://www.newertech.com/Static/articles/images/macensteineSATA_5.jpg>

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I've got a Lacie 1.5Terabyte HD and a Lacie eSata express card. I have created 2 partitions on HD, one for installing MAc OS X and the other one for data. Inserted Mac OS X disk that came with Mac, restarted Mac, boot up fine but the Lacie drive is not shown in the list of drives I can choose from to install the OS on. Am I correct if I say that is because the Express Card needs its driver to function ? Connected the drive with fire wire and installed the OS, connected drive to eSata card again. When I go to preferences, I can select the Lacie drive to start up from but the computer do not start up from it, it start up from internal HD, Am I correct if I say it is because the eSate express card is only seen by the Mac after the driver is loaded ?

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Panics Since Last Report: 5
Anonymous UUID: 4D3C2F74-EB9D-4CF3-BE39-C54C41DBEA4D
Wed Dec 15 20:03:20 2010
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x2aab55): Kernel trap at 0x002993d6, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00000008, CR3: 0x00100000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x00000000, EBX: 0x088e6000, ECX: 0x0096973a, EDX: 0x00000000
CR2: 0x00000008, EBP: 0x58b6bee8, ESI: 0x00000001, EDI: 0x0000415e
EFL: 0x00010206, EIP: 0x002993d6, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x58b60010
Error code: 0x00000000
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x58b6bd08 : 0x21b50c (0x5d42fc 0x58b6bd3c 0x223974 0x0)
0x58b6bd58 : 0x2aab55 (0x59616c 0x2993d6 0xe 0x596336)
0x58b6be38 : 0x2a09a8 (0x58b6be50 0x0 0x58b6bee8 0x2993d6)
0x58b6be48 : 0x2993d6 (0xe 0x48 0x10 0x10)
0x58b6bee8 : 0x969752 (0x0 0x87fc000 0x58b6bf68 0x227259)
0x58b6bf08 : 0x54c4db (0x88e6000 0x88e2f00 0x1 0x29f54e)
0x58b6bf58 : 0x54b50c (0x88e2f00 0x886191c 0x58b6bf88 0x2272c4)
0x58b6bf88 : 0x54b966 (0x88f5880 0x8861900 0x0 0x0)
0x58b6bfc8 : 0x2a06cc (0x88f5880 0x0 0x2a06db 0x88033d4)
Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.SiliconImage.driver.Si3132(1.2.3)@0x967000->0x97afff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIParallelFamily(2.0.1)@0x94d000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x956000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
10H574
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.5.0: Fri Nov 5 23:20:39 PDT 2010; root:xnu-1504.9.17~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro5,2 (Mac-F2268EC8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 104372700576
unloaded kexts:
(none)
loaded kexts:
com.deepseasoftware.driver.CDSDAudioCaptureSupport 1.2.1
com.roxio.BluRaySupport 1.1.3
com.SiliconImage.driver.Si3132 1.2.3
at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch 2.2.05
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor 1.9.3d0
com.apple.filesystems.autofs 2.1
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Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, PCI, 256 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairportwireless_card_type_airportextreme (0x14E4, 0x8D), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.131.36.1)
Bluetooth: Version 2.3.8f7, 2 service, 19 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
PCI Card: sppciexpresscardname, sppci_othermassstorage, ExpressCard
Serial ATA Device: FUJITSU MJA2500BH FFS G1, 465.76 GB
Serial ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-868
SCSI Device: SCSI Target Device @ 0
USB Device: Built-in iSight, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8507, 0x24400000
USB Device: Hub, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x9136, 0x26200000
USB Device: CTH-661, 0x056a (WACOM Co., Ltd.), 0x00d3, 0x26230000
USB Device: CanoScan, 0x04a9 (Canon Inc.), 0x2220, 0x26220000
USB Device: Hub, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x9137, 0x26240000
USB Device: Display iSight, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8508, 0x26242000
USB Device: Apple LED Cinema Display, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x9236, 0x26243000
USB Device: Display Audio, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x2912, 0x26241000
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0237, 0x04600000
USB Device: IR Receiver, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8242, 0x04500000
USB Device: BCM2046A, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x2046, 0x06100000

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