Who here is using eSATA with OS X?

[laarree]

Silencio wrote:
I use a pretty similar setup to laarree. However, I had a fair amount of quirkiness in mounting and unmounting drives under Leopard with my Voyager Q and my NewerTech 6G card. Since upgrading to Snow Leopard, everything has worked flawlessly.

I've had some quirkiness with mounting drives, but I think it has more to do with my Voyagers and the drives themselves. For example, older Seagate 7200.11, .10, .9 SATA drives I have mount quickly, but some recent model Western Digital Green drives often need to be re-inserted in order to mount. Could be a power thing, or something to do with the design of the Voyagers, e.g. there is nothing but gravity that holds a SATA drive down onto the Voyager's SATA and power connection. I will upgrade very soon to SL--if it makes a difference, that will be terrific.

[Dick Moore]

I use the onboard SATA jacks on my Frakkintosh's JMbridge connectors for eSATA. Two days ago, in the middle of a backup, the eSATA drive somehow went wonky and ejected itself -- or at least the OS thought so. This is 10.6.4. It also partially hosed the primary drive. Many hours later, I got almost everything back, but that wonky drive gives my machine fits no matter where I put it, and it's a fairly new drive -- WD, about 6mos old, 320G. I've tried reformatting, etc, but that drive is history.

Thing is, I don't like it that the primary drive was affected too. Doing a backup, its OK with me if the backup drive goes kerflooey, but I really don't want the primary screwed up until I do get a working backup done... Don't now if there's a connection here to the problem MAVIC reported....

[laarree]

Dick Moore, you and M A V I C are on some sort of bleeding edge, it seems.