Roman said:
think the chipset issue may be OK. Vendor ID 0x059b
ktilfo...@cox.net : repliedI
"The chipset is sometimes separate from the reported Vendor ID &
Device ID. For example, many external enclosure use Oxford FW400
chipsets, and in this case, the chipmaker Oxford provides customer
level firmware. However the OEM manufacturers often use custom
firmware that identifies the Vender & Device as something within
their own company rather than Oxford. In your case, this USB-to-
SATA bridge board is being identified as "Iomega" which to my
knowledge doesn't manufacture "chips", they manufacture
"enclosures". This means the real chipset would need to be
identified by actually inspecting the chip to get the manufacturer
& model #.
A Google search of the Vendor ID & Device ID ("0x059b""0x0370")
seems to turn up a litany of crash reports, all on Macs. This is a
really bad omen, it appears that this external enclosure seems to
be involved somehow in crashes of many applications including Final
Cut Pro, FileMaker, HandBrake and others. These applications are
all HD intensive applications, so it appears you've been doubly
unlucky, you have a VIA chipset PCI card that has issues, and you
also have an Iomega external USB enclosure that appears to have Mac
specific issues that causes multiple HD intensive applications to
crash.
Another bothersome aspect is the firmware. Your Iomega drive
reports firmware version "1.0f" while others having the exact same
Vendor ID & Device ID are reporting different firmware such as
"f6.15". Normally identical Vendor ID & Device ID would have
identical firmware, and these two version #'s don't seemingly come
from the same firmware series. It's possible that Iomega is using
multiple chipset manufacturers and hiding this by using identical
Vendor ID & Device ID for very different but similar looking
products. I think you've got a double whammy mess, and you probably
need both a different PCI USB Card and a different HD enclosure.
<http://www.google.com/search?q=%220x059b%22%220x0370%22&btnG=Search>"
Thank you Kris, for this extra effort.
Warm regards,
Roman
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