Expressway-E VMWARE dual interface

Hi All
There is a firewall between DMZ and Internal network. We have used expressway E as dual interfaces one is in the DMZ and other is in the internal network.
Clint is insisting that there is security risk deploying expressway in this way? Please advice
Thanks

Your Client is right!
Expressway E is supposed to be connected to the DMZ network.
If you can use an offical ip without nat address you only need 1 interface.
If you have to use nat then you will need two dmz networks.
You can find information within the Configuration Guides:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/unified-communications/expressway-series/products-installation-and-configuration-guides-list.html

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Loading mifare application to java dual interface card

Hey,
I have a jcop dual interface card. I have successfully loaded a javacard applet and the data. When i try to update and read binary, im getting a 6985 response.
this is the command
#Reader Authenticate
FF00000009090000000000000000
9000
#Mifare Load Keys
FF0000000A07000060FFFFFFFFFFFF
9000
80860000050100040000
9000
80D600041036383132313031323341443931383833
9000
80860000050100080000
9000
80D60008102C373837303031303130333030303231
9000
thanks in advance

these are pseudo APDUs interpreted by the card reader. The mifare protocol is specific an proprietary, it has nothing to do with APDUs.
if your card is a dual interface javacard that supports mifare, then the card manufacturer may assist you on how to access the mifare memory zone from javacard.

Dual interface card communication

Hi,
I am new to java card technology and going to work on SmartMX dual interface card.
(http://www.nxp.com/products/identification_and_security/smart_card_ics/smartmx_dual_interface_controllers/P5Cx009_P5Cx072_FAM_SDS.html)
I would like to know working of dual interface card. Is it possible to write data on java card Via NFC or vice-versa?
Also, I want to know how to program java card & what kind of hardware I need for programing java card ?
Edited by: 909587 on Jan 23, 2012 12:16 AM

I would like to know working of dual interface card. Is it possible to write data on java card Via NFC or vice-versa?You either need to communicate with an applet on the card (that you develop) or interface with MiFARE. You SmartMX should have MiFARE as well as Java Card. What are you trying to achieve? If you can provide more details we may be able to add more information on how to do it.
Also, I want to know how to program java card & what kind of hardware I need for programing java card ?You will need a PC/SC compliant smartcard reader. You can get dual interface readers with contact and contactless interfaces.
Cheers,
Shane

Solaris 10 Dual interface

I have two interfaces inet0 & inet1 on my solaris 10 server connected to two different networks - One to the DMZ network & other to the private network. I am able to access the server - only when I bring any one of the interface down.
If I bring down inet0, I can access through inet1 IP and the vice versa.
The server was hardened & so I have enabled ip_forwarding using :
ndd /dev/ip ip_forwarding 1
The gateway & mask are set proper.
I tried rebooting the machine, but no chance. please suggest how to resolve this problem.

Do you have both interfaces plugged into the same switch?
If so the problem is probably that both interfaces have the same mac address.
If its a sparc box, then you can set the eeprom variable 'local-mac-address?'
if "eeprom | grep local" indictates that its set to false do
eeprom 'local-mac-address?=true'.
You probably need to use quotes there to escape the ?.

Dual Interface Networking Problem

The scenario:
iMac with two active network interfaces, Airport & Ethernet
Airport = DHCP, 10.0.0.x address (cable modem gateway)
Ethernet = Static 66.93.x.x address (DSL gateway)
Airport is first in the "Service Order" list and so that interface serves as the default gateway.
Web browsing and other internet traffic which originates on the iMac travels over the Airport and through the cable modem gateway, as expected.
However, pings to the 66.93.x.x address from the outside world are not returned.
By watching tcpdump on both en0 and en1, I can see that these pings are in fact reaching the iMac on en0 (as expected), but the iMac is trying to return them on en1 (which is not expected).
How can I fix this? I am fairly certain that this behavior is new to Leopard. (ie: I am fairly certain that under Tiger, this Mac would properly respond on the interface and network which it was contacted, rather than trying to redirect its responses through the default gateway.)
Help!

I think you misunderstand. Mac OS X has always supported simultaneous network interfaces and multihoming.
The desired result in this case is for general traffic to travel en1 (the default gateway), but for the public IP address on en0 to still be reachable for inbound traffic from the outside world. Similar setups have worked fine pre-Leopard.
And again, I can see the packets with tcpdump.
Currently, responses to inbound traffic from en0 are being sent back over en1 instead of en0, and that is neither a desired nor expected result.
Message was edited by: Rusty Ross

Route for dual interface

I have two interfaces to be configured eth0 & eth1.
eth0 with the default gateway and eth1 with a different gateway.
Please provide the commands in solaris 10 to configure the above.

karthikkiruba wrote:
I have two interfaces to be configured eth0 & eth1.
eth0 with the default gateway and eth1 with a different gateway.
Please provide the commands in solaris 10 to configure the above.Solaris routing is destination based, not source based. You can't assign a gateway the way you're describing. In most cases, you don't need to because you can't force traffic to go out a specific interface anyway (without a lot of tricks).
Darren

LaserJet 5200M with dual interfaces...

Greetings to the list,
I am an instructor at a small technical school and we have a LaserJet 5200M here that we use for both student and faculty printing. The faculty mostly uses it for 11x17 printing while the students use it for 8.5x11. The issue, according to my help desk is that we have it attached to two networks, one via the ethernet connection and one via a lynksis wifi print server.
There is a student computer attached to the same wifi network as the printserver and that is where the problem comes in. Every few days the printer stops printing correctly and starts to pump out PCL error pages.
Is there a problem with having two interfaces turned on on this printer or should I be looking for other sources of the problem?

Save yourself a lot of bother, and don't.
Set the server up in a NAT environment and have your router/firewall control which ports are exposed to the outside world.
That's the far, far easier approach.
The problem is that there is no one-click solution to your problem.
While it's easy enough to configure apache to serve sites on one interface or the other (its designed around running multiple virtual hosts), the same cannot be said for all the other services on the machine which will, by default, listen on all interfaces.
To do this properly you will need to tweak each service to listen to specific interfaces. That's a lot of work up front, and even more as your server grows and you add services (you have to remember to edit the configuration file accordingly.
Miss one and you risk exposing your system.
By running in a NAT environment you control this at the network edge by only allowing in the specific traffic you expect (e.g. port 80 for web) and you don't have to worry about securing each individual service.
I suppose you could achieve a similar result by running the software firewall on the server and denying all incoming traffic in the public port other than port 80 but that wouldn't be my recommendation.

VMware Fusion - Journaled External HDD using MacDrive or NTFS?

I plan to use VMware Fusion running XP Pro via a Bootcamp partition. Along with this I would like a dedicated external HDD for my windows work files (Premiere Pro etc). The trouble is, I'm not sure what way to go with the formatting of the external HDD.
Would I be better to run MacDrive on the Windows system and work off a Journaled format, or NTFS (with something like Paragon on the OS X side)?
I don't want to use FAT32 as I will be working with large video files (<4GB) on the windows side.
Has anyone had any experience with this?

I'm not really answering your question (sorry), but you can create a virtual hard drive from within VMware's interface. The file for the virtual hard drive can reside anywhere, including your external drive. It will start out small and grow up to the max size you specify when you create it. On the Windows side, it looks like a regular hard drive. In my case, my second drive mounts as the "E:" drive.
I find this useful, because the virtual drive does not take up my whole external drive. And the external drive can be formatted for Mac (HFS+) while Windows XP thinks the second drive is formatted for NTFS. In my case, the file for the virtual drive resides on an external drive that I uses for other Mac things.
Now, if you want to share data from both the Mac and Windows sides, instead of using a virtual hard drive (or a real hard drive), you can use WMware's Shared Folders feature to map a share point on the Mac side as a network drive on the Windows side. In my case, I have a folder in my Mac OS X user Documents folder mapped to drive Z: in Windows. Since it's not really going over a network, it is fast.
So if I use this drive in Windows, the files are immediately available in Mac OS X. If you access that folder in Mac OS X, the changes are immediately available in Windows. I can probably go the other way and connect from the Mac side to a share point on the Windows side, but I haven't figured that out yet.

Dual Processor Mac Mini

Now that the new Mac Minis have a dual processor, will this be a good option to run FCP? My G-5 generates SO much heat I have to move it out of my home office before I start editing!
I was hoping the new Mac Mini might be my salvation.
Any input??
Thanks.
Jamie
G5 Dual 2 GHz PowerPC Mac OS X (10.4.7)

But you can capture (DV and native HDV) to a USB 2.0 external drive instead (if your camera interferes with the firewire drive, or visa-versa), and if you have a dual interface external drive, once you have finished capturing, you can re-mount it over firewire and continue from there.
An iMac would be okay, full size HD, some real graphics card options (quite decent ones on the new 24"), the single FW interface becomes the only sticking point for FCP. I use a mac mini to encode and render very long jobs, because I can leave it on for months on end, quietly getting on with the job. My Powerbook G4 also has a single firewire bus, and I can manage okay with it, but I don't do anything too big.
I think you could edit DV on a dual core Mini fine, and HDV at a pinch. Motion would be very difficult, if not impossible, because of the lack of a graphics card.
You will need the latest 5.1 version of Final Cut Pro - see this page for upgrade / crossgrade information:
http://www.apple.com/universal/crossgrade
A lot of the posters here are only interested in the latest and greatest hardware, but the basics of the job (online DV editing) have not changed in nearly a decade now. Consumer level computing has changed a great deal, Apples consumer offering has changed enormously in the last 12 months.
Having said all that though, I would still agree with the general 'mood' of the board on this one, stick with your G5, maybe re-position it to affect you less (somehow), the G5 is a better / as good as machine, and, more importantly, you already have one.

Unified Communications traversal state failed

Hi,
I have installed two separate Virtual machines VCS-Control and VCS-Expressway (Version 8.2) on a Cisco UCS server. Both VMs are on the same subnet and connected to the LAN interface of Cisco ASA firewall (No DMZ) network. I tried to establish Unified Communications traversal zone between them as suggested in Cisco doc, MRA via Expressway Deployment-Guide-X8-2 but it is always coming up as failed. Please see my scenerio diagram as well as the config of VCS-Control and Expressway from the attached files. Any help from any one would really be appreciated.
Regards,
Ali

Is this a lab or a production environment?
If you use NAT on the VCS-E you need the dual interface option, even if you would
only use one interface. There are many postings around that here in the forum.
If NAT is done, all communication would need to go to the external NAT address.
So also for the VCS-C to VCS-E traversal zone, so the firewall has to allow that.
Often it is then more easy to deploy the VCS-E with two interfaces, one in the external DMZ
and one internal interface.
If this is a production environment you should place a firewall in between VCS-C and VCS-E.
As you specified a host name, check that the dns can be resolved and that the ip flow and
configuration is ok as mentioned above.

Intel Raid Vs Marvel Raid on Big Bang B3 Marshall (Non OS Drives) via win7 setup

I apologise in advance if this seems lazy but has anybody tried setting up RAID 1 mirroring of two non-essential data hard drives within Windows 7 64-bit as opposed to a bios setup?
I only need to mirror a games hard drive so as not to have to do manually backup the hard drive with Acronis software backup every other day or so.
I have a Acronis backup of the game hard drive as I am aware that creating a raid array on both drives will delete all data on both drives but I can restore my games software later.
As it was a non-essential raid array (non-OS drives) on my previous hardware setup for these two identical games drives before upgrading to the MSI big-band Marshall B3 I totally forgot to set up the raid whilst doing a fresh install of Windows 7 on a dual boot with a previously restored/Acronis universal restore of windows 7 which also had this raid array.
If that all makes sense I'm hoping you guys can put me in the right direction as to Intel on Marvel (I seem to remember reading in the past that Marvel Raid drivers had issues) preferences for a setup within Windows 7 64-bit rather than the bios setup which would mean starting from scratch which I'm not prepared to do on a non-essential, non-OS Raid array.
If however I was doing an essential OS drives Raid array then it's a no-brainer to do a BIOS setup with a fresh install.
Any thoughts much appreciated, cheers

I don't think you are looking at the right areas.
Quote:
Sonnet Tempo cards are compatible with most external SATA storage. However, external hard drives with USB 2.0/eSATA dual interface based on the Oxford Semiconductor OXU931DS storage controller chip may not be compatible with Mac OS X when connected via SATA. Known issues are kernel panics occurring when the drive is connected, or the drive not being recognized by the operating system.
Western Digital manufactures Desktop edition (WD Caviar, Caviar SE, Caviar SE16, and Raptor X) hard drives and Enterprise (RAID) Edition (WD RE, RE2, and Raptor) hard drives. Each type of hard drive is designed to work specifically in either a desktop computer environment, or connected to a RAID controller (hardware or software-based). If you intend to configure Western Digital drives in a RAID set, Sonnet and WD recommend using only their Enterprise edition hard drives. For more information, see this Western Digital FAQ.
EndQuote
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/temposatae4p.html
Not everyone follows guidelines like they use to. Enterprise and RAID Edition drives - even Green RE4 series - not noise. You want a good drive enclosure with adequate cooling from air flow and fans. These are not silent and any drive noise is just background hum and noise that they are working.
http://macperformanceguide.com/RecommendedESATAEnclosures.html
There are dozens of reviews on drive storage. If noise is over riding then you aren't a candidate for RAID, but you are for SSD and Green, and would find SilentPCReview up your alley.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/

Trying to Install OS 10.4 - Can someone help?

I am trying to install a black DVD Mac OS X Tiger Version 10.4 that I received as a gift (person got tired of hearing me complaining about not able to used TurboTax with my present OS) on my 400 MHz PowerPC G4 (AGP graphics) that presently has Version 10.3.9 on it and I am having a problem with the installment.
Before I describe the problem here is a little more detail:
I have 512 MB memory and 13.31 GB available disc space and have unplugged the cable to my Zip drive.
Since my Mac did not come with an internal DVD Drive I purchased an external Sony DRX-830UL-T DVD/CD drive that is for Macintosh as well as for Windows OS. The DVD/CD has dual interface – iLINK/FireWire & USB2.0
The problem is that I cannot get the upgrade to work and I am wondering if anybody can assist me?
When I insert the DVD Mac OS X Tiger in my Sony drive it loads the install disc and I can see the “Install Mac OS X” icon as well as other items. When I click on the “Install Mac OS X” icon it goes to the Mac OS X Tiger screen with the Grey X and the words “Click the button below to restart your computer and begin the installation process”.
When I do that it restarts my computer and goes back to my login to 10.3.9 never starting the install process.
When I click on the “Optional Installs.mpkg” icon on the install disc it at least gets to the beginning of the installation but in comes back and states, “Mail cannot be installed on this computer. This software cannot be installed on this computer.” Even though I have Mail on my computer and it is functioning.
Is it a loss cause to try loading Tiger on my Mac G4?

OOPs, sorry, missed the Option key thing the first time you said it!
Some things to try...
Does it boot to Single User Mode, CMD+s, if so try...
fsck -fy
Repeat until it shows no errors fixed.
Does it boot into Open Firmware with CMDOption+of ?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42642
Have you done a PRAM reset...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
Tried resetting the PMU?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449
Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, then when the prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 5 of it's things.
At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.
The 5 things it does are...
Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.

Is this a "safe" way to upgrade to lion and transfer apps/data to new imac?

I have an older imac running 10.6.8 and I am considering buying a new one.
I read a link with guidleines to upgrade to lion. My question is:
After upgrading to lion, I am going to buy a new imac and want to move to the new imac with the least inconvenience. I have a lot of music app/usb interfaces so the time to reconfigure everything would be very time consuming.
So is the "safe" way to do it?
Do a time machine backup of current configuration.
Follow the link I saw outlining upgrading from 10.6.8 to lion on my current imac.
Get everything working again on the current imac with mountain lion.
Do a time machine backup of the lion configuration.
Get the new imac and on first boot, elect to restore from the time machine backup wiping out what came installed on the new imac.
Another time machine backup on the new imac.
I should be done?
or is there a better /safer way?
I have been putting this off for almost year because of the number of apps I am running and devices I have connected. a short list.
file servers off firewire 800 and 400 ( I know I will need the thunderbolt to firewire adapters).
approx 12-18 usb devices all connected either directly or daisy chained through usb controllers connected to usb controllers.
about 10 external USB drives.
vmware
midi interfaces for piano/guitar.
m-audio fast track ultra
multiple DVD/blu-ray reader/writers
Hence my concern for a smooth transition
thanks in advance.

There is really no need to update the older iMac running 10.6 to Lion, especially if you have multiple backups of your User Data. You can easliy move or migrate data from any one of your External HDs or Server to the new iMac.
As for your current iMac:
If you plan on selling the older iMac, Lion is not transferable and you will want to sell it with a clean install of 10.6 and let the new owner upgrade.
If you plan on keeping the older iMac around for others to use and it supports Mountain Lion, then in my humble opinion Mountain Lion is the better upgrade.
As for your other devices:
• Yes, Thunderbolt to FireWire adapter
• Yes, external USB 2.0 and 3.0 devices are backwards compatible
• Sorry, I don't use vmware
• Sorry, I don't use midi interfaces
• Sorry, I don't use m-audio
• Yes, my external DVD drives work with various Mac's running 10.6 thru 10.8
Sorry I can't better answer your Audio questions. If no one else comes along with the answers here, then you might try starting another ASC question focused on those transitions.

External Hard Drive for Mac AND PC

I need to purchase an external Hard Drive to be able to back up both my iMac and my partner's PC. I am currently looking at buying either:
Iomega UltraMax Hard Drive 500GB FireWire 400/USB 2.0
OR
Iomega 500GB Minimax Hard Drive with Dual Interface + USB/FireWire Hub
Can anyone tell me is it possible to format either of these Drives to be able to accept both Mac and PC, and if so, do either of these drives let you have a permanent connection to both at the same time, so they can be set up and left to do their backups automatically without always swapping cables over etc.
Does anyone have a preference between these drives?
(Oh, and for info, I won't be using Time Capsule as I only have 10.3.9!)
Thanks

I think there is a decent amount of BS in there...
I have a USB HD that came out of the box formatted as FAT32- both my MacBook Pro and PC laptop can read & write to it just fine. I haven't had it long enough to comment on stability, but haven't had any issues yet. I don't have any special software on the PC, either- I think the info from the Seagate forums sounds like people remembering the "old days" of Windows 98 and pre-OS X systems, when you did need software like that for true cross-platform drive access.
As for the drive not working on a LAN- well, the hardware doesn't know the difference, so as long as it's connected via USB to the AEBS, it's fine. What could cause an issue would be your PC OS version. I have found WinXP to be really good (well, for a Win OS, anyway) at playing nice with others. Vista is a train wreck for many, many reasons, but may be OK for this too. Anything earlier than XP may be a bit more troublesome.
Hope my 2 cents helps...

MobileSTOR MS2UT + esata + USB + mac pro = never-ending problems

Hey gang,
I seemed to have entered a perfect storm here:
I had purchased the *MobileSTOR MS2UT 2 Bay SATA to eSATA/USB 2.0 RAID 0/1* Enclosure initially for a *dual 800 quicksilver G4* mac that I had, looking for a hardware-based Raid solution for back ups and to not burden the G4 processor. I have replaced the G4 with an early *2008 2.8 dual quad core mac pro*. After two machines and two different PCI sata cards, I've had no luck....
(website for the above enclosure)
http://www.sansdigital.com/mobilestor/ms2ut.html
For starters, in the G4, I had a quality Seritek/1ve2+2 controller that had no problem with two other single drive enclosures, but failed with the MS2UT.
http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-1ve2plus2/
A glib response from Seritek support says that I should use their enclosure. Digging around I find that I need a controller card that can handle a port multiplier enclosure rather than just any serial ata enclosure. Seems silly to me that the user has to dig for this. I mean the USB & FIREWIRE interfaces don't seem to care: it says USB/FIREWIRE on the effing box of both the controller and on the drive, badda-bing, badda boom: it works. Whats with this high maintenance of esata. Well you get roughly 2-3x the performance so Ok, maybe its worth it.
Well, with the macpro on the horizon,, I give up on the G4, close that unsolved mystery. For the mac pro I figure PCIe, a modern computer, no problem. I get the computer, fish around the internet for an esata PCIe card, then I come across this review of the WiebeTech SilverSATA II which appears to be similar to that of the MobileSTOR:
http://www.amug.org/amug-web/html/amug/reviews/articles/wiebetech/silver2/
It appears that the unit has specific tastes as far as having the right card to make it bootable, multiport aware, etc... (the Sonnet Tempo 4+4 card works but its a PCIx card, not PCIe)
Like I said: install a bootable Mac OS on any USB/firewire drive, plug it into any card, and it works... estata... its russian roulette...
Ok so I round up some vendors, (firmtek, sonnet, Highpoint) send them emails to see what they think: if their latest cards will work with the MS2UT... They are all over the place.. they think it may work, they dunno... it should work, they haven't tested it... then they try to push their own enclosure hardware on me. I mean see an astrologist or have your palm read.. it seems more likely you'll get a more accurate answer from them, rather than vendors... props to Sonnet, though, they list compatibility right on the page with their controller.
then 10.6 comes out... and you email vendors about compatibility on that OS, and they don't even email you back.
So I find this review of the highpoint rocket raid for the mac on the great sight: Barefeats.com
http://www.barefeats.com/hard119.html
to make a long story short:
+KEY FEATURES of the "eSATA for Mac"+
+1. Dual eSATA ports+
+2. 32 and 64-bit EFI onboard+
+3. Able to boot Mac OS X+
+4. Plug and Play for (Oxford and Silicon Image chipset) external storage+
enclosures
+5. 4x PCIe rating+
+6. Support for Direct Attached and Port Multiplied enclosures+
+7. RAID 0, 1, 5, and JBOD support using browser-based manager+
+8. Native support for Snow Leopard+
+9. Compatible with 2006 - 2009 Mac Pro+
I should be set, right? WRONG!
I email highpoint, detailing that I planned to mix both Port multiplied (PM) and direct access (DA) enclosures on the same card at the same time. They say maybe (only describing the PM enclosure, not even mentioning the DA enclosure compatibility as I specified), since its a raid card and I intended to use it with an enclosure with its own raid hardware, however they say they see no issues. Well it shows they don't even know their own hardware: Their docks say that the card supports PM enclosures as well as DA (direct access) enclosures. Their web based software even shows the two as separate categories. What is buried in the manual and not cleared up by tech support or their product page is that YOU CAN'T MIX PM AND DA ENCLOSURES ON THE CARD AT THE SAME TIME!!! I explained more in the paragraph above than any tech support from any company. Unbelievable where support has gone these days.
I discover the above because I found the card at Fry's believe it not and since they have a generous return policy I tried it out and learned the above the hard way. No dice on the MS2UT with what is perhaps the most forgiving esata card for the mac.
So more hunting on the web, this time the enclosure's manufacture site: sans digital.
http://www.sansdigital.com/mobilestor/ms2ut.html
...clicking on the accessories tab I find several esata adapter cards... funny that they include ones that don't appear to support PM enclosures... Anyway, I study two that state they supports port multipliers:
http://www.sansdigital.com/adapters/ha-san-4espcix2.html:
http://www.sansdigital.com/adapters/ha-dat-4espcie.html
Ok, I may not get a bootable enclosure.. I just want to get this thing working in esata since cloning my internal raid on the mac pro takes 8 hours using usb, and my main purpose is to maintain a clone so I make my compromise.
I should be set, right? WRONG!
reading the fine print on both cards it says:
*(Please note that the host adapter card is based on Silicon Image chipset, which currently only support up to MAC OS 10.5.1 by Silicon Image.)*
I do more research, it seems any manufacturer using chips by Silicon Image will have an issue with 10.6 macs! On some websites it says Silicon Image will never release a driver. On firmtek it says they make their own driver and swears that it works. At the Silicon Image website they say they are an OEM provider so don't bother them, and that its up to the vendor to make a compatible driver. Sheesh!!
I don't get it.. whats the point in having an esata sticker if it appears to come in more flavors than an ice cream shop!
Oh and it gets better: I go to the sonnet site, thinking they have to have something that works, looking at their latest tempo SATA E4P:
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/temposatae4p.html
well, the fine print is EXHAUSTIVE, but again props to Sonnet for making it crystal clear:
(4) Sonnet Tempo cards are compatible with most external SATA storage. However, external hard drives with USB 2.0/eSATA dual interface based on the Oxford Semiconductor OXU931DS storage controller chip may not be compatible with Mac OS X when connected via SATA. Known issues are kernel panics occurring when the drive is connected, or the drive not being recognized by the operating system.
+Summary of external SATA storage+
+• Storage with eSATA alone +
Compatible
+• Storage with triple interfaces +
Compatible
+• Storage with eSATA plus Firewire 400 and/or 800 +
Compatible
+• Storage with port multiplier support (multiple drives) +
Compatible
+• Storage with RAID 0, 1, or 5 (multiple drives) +
Compatible
+• Storage with eSATA plus USB (based on JMicron 20366) +
Compatible
+ these compatible drives include, but are not limited to:+
+- OWC Mercury On-the-Go USB 2.0/eSATA 2.5" portable+
+• Storage with eSATA plus USB (based on Oxford OXU931DS) +
+not compatible+
+ these incompatible drives include, but are not limited to:+
+- Western Digital My Book™ Premium ES Edition™+
+- Seagate Technology FreeAgent™ Pro+
+Advanced users note that this card is not yet compatible in full 64-bit boot. Snow Leopard default boots in 32-bit mode, except in an Xserve.+
So in short: if you have an enclosure that has both USB and esata, but does not use the JMicron 20366, then it will not be recognized by the card. If you have an enclosure with three interfaes: USB, FW and esata, you're fine. Keep in mind too: most manufacturers don't put the source manufacturer of their chipsets on the box. So I ask..
*HOW IS THE CONSUMER SUPPOSED TO KNOW!*
I swear, a perfect analogy is if I go to best buy, buy a toshiba DVD player only to discover it doesn't play DVD's that contain movies produced by Sony Pictures..because its not a a Sony/columbia House movie. You think consumers would put up with that crap? UNBELIEVABLE...
So now I have this really versatile enclosure that apparently can't run on Mac 10.6 with ANY esata controller for the mac. I really like the design of the enclosure, with its hardware based raid that is hot swappable and has a small footprint. However there seems to be no way to get a controller card for this device that will work on a 10.6 mac.
I guess whats inferred is that you should get an enclosure with the fewest variety of ports, i.e. esata/fw/usb... ironically if it has all three, you are ok, but not if it has usb/esata. Being that USB is the most popular, thats not easy. I'm looking to contact Sans Digital to see if they will exchange it for me, possible for a model with esata/fw800 or an esata only model, if it exists. My last resort is to just use it as a USB drive (my intention was to use it as a clone of my system, with the added security that the enclosure makes a copy of a copy in raid 1), however its like 3x as time consuming than esata.
If anyone has a working MobileSTOR MS2UT/wiebetech SilverSATA II in a 10.5 mac pro, please respond to me with your config. Thanks for reading!

Thank you hatter for your reply.
I'm familiar with OWC, as I've done business with them since 2001, as well as XLR8.
I have a 2008 mac pro so the 2009 model related problems are not an issue in my situation
As I stated above I go to reputable vendors for my hardware who have specific mac experience. I look specifically for hardened compatibility so that there is support for things like deep sleep. The Sans Digital enclosure was over $200..it was not cheap. The USB/Esata combo is the most common interface for the enclosure storage market. Having a compatibility issue is a vendor fault, not the buyer. Having minutiae flavors of esata compatability based on chipsets roulette wheel is inexcusable. The enclosure needs that I have is for the medium to be removable and be able to be rebuilt at the hardware level, i.e. at the enclosure's control panel. To the mac its just a drive. The hotswap and back up is transparent to the OS and mac hardware, and allows me to change from raid 0/1 and do back up right from the enclosure interface.
So far I haven't had problems with USB/Firewire. Meanwhile Esata to me has been nothing but beta testing for vendors and seeing how the chipset manufacturers have gone loosey-goosey on following spec and just dump cheap chinese crap into the market with no pride.
for comparison:
USB/FW, PATA, SATA, SCSI
1) industry standard
2) native drivers
3) bootable. Period.
4) buy a controller card/raid card, plug it in, format, it works even through major OS upgrades.
5) USB/FW: Hot-swapable. Yes it really does work.
Esata:
1) Multiple standards (again, look at the Sonnet website to see the minefield one has to walk through to mate a controller card to an enclosure)
2) non native drivers. Buying an esata card is like marrying into the vendors family. Plus if you manage to get things working and do an OS upgrade, you are playing russian roulette. If you system boots off it, then get life insurance because you may kill yourself.
3)Not bootable and no one seems to care to explain why. Whats odd is that some earlier PCIx cards were bootable (like sonnet Temp 4x4) but their PCIe successors aren't. Not sure if this has to do with the host computer BIOS and/or the current chipsets from SI which rely on custom drivers from the vendors. Another lovely example of this are the ODD_SATA ports on the Mac pro: storage only, not bootable. Sure it makes sense now that I've learned it the hard way, however to users of FW/USB and even IDE, one would think that motherboard ports are bootable. Yes I know this is a mac bios thing and its not even considered as part of the feature set of the computer
4) As I've shown, each controller card seems to be unique, even if its from the same vendor. Even the drivers vary from card to card! Heck even the vendors are unsure as to how compatible their controller cards are with various enclosures. That is proprietary, not industry standard. OS upgrades doesn't seem to provide native driver support for Direct access and/or port multiplying interfaces. The problem with this is that film/video users like myself like to build bullet proof systems, and with raids that I've built from IDE, FW, or USB, I've never had the minutiae of compatibility issues as I've had with esata. I installed an Acard raid controller in my dual 800 back in 2001, installed the drives and forgot about it. it just worked through multiple OS upgrades. Not sure whats gong on with esata.
5) Can't call it hot swappable if I can't get the **** thing to wok in the first place.
My analysis is this: Esata is basically a proprietary format to the vendor that sells the hardware, while USB/FW is an industry standard. I bought a quality enclosure that said "esata", I bought a quality controller that said "esata", it didn't work. I had to learn the hard way about DA and PM enclosures and now about chipset conflicts. I've built computers since the late 80's amiga days, hot-rodding that computer well beyond spec and with custom cooling. SCSI terminators and IDE master/slave issues were easy-cheesey because they followed straightforward rules. This esata stuff is just plain sloppy work on the part of vendors and as Danny Glover said I'm getting to old for this **** as far as being a beta tester for hardware.

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