White noise on external Focusrite soundcard

Any clues as to when could we get a Focusrite audio drivers update? I have a Focusrite Saffire 6 USB external soundcard which worked perfectly fine until I updated to Mavericks. Now I'm just getting white noise, so I assume it's a driver issue with the new OS.
HELP!!!!

TrilhaSonora wrote:
I have a Saffire 6 (USB 1.0 - unlucky draw!) bought on Amazon in November 2011.
So, that's two years of service, and now my options are:
1. Throw it away
2. Lie to someone and trick them into buying it - If it's a PC owner I'd have to lie about the root hub issue to sell this thing.
3. Pray that someone who works for Focusrite takes pity on those of us that are stranded with the USB 1.0 version.
I had hoped to get more than two years of use out of my Saffire 6.
I've got a Saffire 6 USB 1.1 and had a similar issue - no sound from it after the Mavericks upgrade. I saw a post on the Focusrite help twitter feed advising an S6 USB 2.0 user to try downloading the Class Compliant mode app from  Focusrite's US website (link here - the link mentions Scarlett, but the original query was about Saffire). I tried it myself and got my sound back - at least for the moment until there's an 'official' fix.
I obviously can't guarantee it's going to work for everyone so you'll need to proceed with caution, but it seemed to work with my fairly basic set up (2013 2.9GHz Intel iMac; Saffire 6 USB 1.1; Logic Pro 9).

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