Re: USB 3.0 pcie card in a late 2005 G5?

2011-09-29 Thread Richard Taylor
LaCie is well-known for deliberately misrepresenting their products in order to limit the options of their customers. I guess this would be more likely to be called customer management, in legalese. That and it's a great way to get out of having to give any tech support to ageing PowerPC

USB 3.0 pcie card in a late 2005 G5?

2011-09-20 Thread Jeffrey Engle
USB 3.0 pcie card in a late 2005 G5? can this be done? I've seen various PCIe cards out there, but the question is, will they just work? has anybody tried this and what was your results. Thank you. Jeff Jeffrey Engle Kamiah, Idaho 83536 macgu...@gmail.com -- You received this message

Re: USB 3.0 pcie card in a late 2005 G5?

2011-09-20 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 20, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: USB 3.0 pcie card in a late 2005 G5? can this be done? I've seen various PCIe cards out there, but the question is, will they just work? has anybody tried this and what was your results. Thank you. Jeff No it will not 'just work

Re: USB 3.0 pcie card in a late 2005 G5?

2011-09-20 Thread peterhaas
No it will not 'just work' as there are no USB 3.0 drivers in OS X. LaCie has a driver for their devices, but it's intel-only. The LaCie driver does indeed only work for its card, and it enforces its ownership over both the card and ANY attached USB 3.0 devices. However, the LaCie driver is

Re: USB 3.0 pcie card in a late 2005 G5?

2011-09-20 Thread peterhaas
USB 3.0 pcie card in a late 2005 G5? can this be done? I've seen various PCIe cards out there, but the question is, will they just work? has anybody tried this and what was your results. General guidance ... PCI-e 1x cards with a Renesas chip work with the hacked LaCie driver (see below

Re: USB 3.0 pcie card in a late 2005 G5?

2011-09-20 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 20, 2011, at 10:18 AM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: However, the LaCie driver is Universal, NOT Intel. Not according to LaCiethat's interesting... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely

Re: USB 3.0 pcie card in a late 2005 G5?

2011-09-20 Thread peterhaas
However, the LaCie driver is Universal, NOT Intel. Not according to LaCiethat's interesting... LaCie is well-known for deliberately misrepresenting their products in order to limit the options of their customers. I guess this would be more likely to be called customer management, in

Re: USB 3.0 pcie card in a late 2005 G5?

2011-09-20 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Sep 20, 2011, at 10:18 AM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: The name of the driver is PXHCD.kext. So being the novice that I am…. assuming I can find this .kext file, how do I install it? and is there any dangers to the system if I do? please forgive my ignorance. Jeff Jeffrey Engle Kamiah,

Re: USB 3.0 pcie card in a late 2005 G5?

2011-09-20 Thread peterhaas
The name of the driver is PXHCD.kext. So being the novice that I am…. assuming I can find this .kext file, how do I install it? and is there any dangers to the system if I do? please forgive my ignorance. Jeff Move it into /System/Library/Extensions. Then rebuild the permissions using Disk

Re: USB 3.0 pcie card in a late 2005 G5?

2011-09-20 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Sep 20, 2011, at 2:01 PM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: The name of the driver is PXHCD.kext. So being the novice that I am…. assuming I can find this .kext file, how do I install it? and is there any dangers to the system if I do? please forgive my ignorance. Jeff Move it into

Re: USB 3.0 pcie card in a late 2005 G5?

2011-09-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 20, 2011, at 4:20 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Wow, my new/old late 2005 G5 Leopard machine's gonna have usb 3.0!! woohoo! I don't think you'll see much benefit (over USB 2.0) unless you have an external SSD or a really fast RAID. Also, there are large differences in the performance