On Apr 18, 2010, at 2:22 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Here it is:
http://www.cooldrives.com/usb-power-cable-mini-b.html
Roman
Can someone confirm that this will solve my external USB High Speed
Problem please.
I'm not following this thread closely, so I may be off target.
I don't believe this cable will help you.
Your card is a VIA chipset card (Vendor ID 0x1106). Most VIA chipset
cards don't work very well with OS X, and required at separate VIA
extension to be installed in order to work. VIA didn't update the
extension (it may be natively supported by Apple in Leopard?), so it
only worked well for PPC Macs up into Tiger 10.4. To further cause
problems, the driver has disappeared from the VIA support site, so it
may be hard to find for download. It appears to be available from the
Internet Archive Wayback Machine:
<http://web.archive.org/web/20080619152013/http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=420&OSID=23&CatID=2470&SubCatID=122
>
If you can install the VIA driver perhaps that can help? Otherwise, my
advise is to forget about the VIA card and get another card with a
different chipset maker that is better supported on Mac. I've read
that NEC is good, but there are probably many. You got unlucky with
VIA, the one chipset that seems to have problems on Mac.
Also, sometimes the USB enclosures have USB bridge chipsets that can
be problematic for Macs. Sometimes there are firmware updates for the
enclosures themselves that can help mounting problems, but this is
increasingly rare, especially on a newer enclosure. I couldn't see the
firmware revision or chipset information on the IOMEGA enclosure from
what you've posted so far (look in your System Profiler), but it's not
very likely that this would be an issue, but if it is, an update can
sometimes help.
--
You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for
those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs.
The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette
guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
