I've used the SATA backplane on my macpro and it's definitely not hot swappable, eject the disk with DU and the next disk doesn't come back up until the next restart. I've tried the sonnet tech e2p 2 port card which is slow by modern standards but cheap, eventually I settled on the seritek 4 port eSATA pci-e card and it works brilliantly.
Regards Sam -- MacAmbulance Sam Mullen 07747778022 [email protected] On 29 Oct 2010, at 13:02, Toby Leighton <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't have access to a mac pro anymore, so I cant verify this, but I think > even though they say they don't support it it still works, the difference > being that the drive may not have an eject symbol next to it in finder, but > you can still eject it with disk utility. I may be mis-remembering but I am > sure I have pulled unmounted drives out of a mac pro without powering on-off > without freezing or problems. I used to use a macpro to clone hard drives > with carbon copy cloner before I got the weibe sata dock mentioned in > another thread today. > > Toby > > On 29 October 2010 09:53, Graham Street <[email protected]> > wrote: > Thanks Toby > I'd heard of that and already did some research. It appears those ports won't > allow hot-swap. The disk(s) in the external eSata hub need to be up and > running before the Mac Pro is booted. So, that's not much use to me as I > don't want to have to keep rebooting each time I change a disk. Thanks for > the thought though ... Graham > > > on 29/10/2010 09:46 Toby Leighton sent the following: >> You can buy a back plate and actually use the internal sata bus (as long as >> you arent already at capacity with 4 hard disks and 2 dvd drives) It will >> be guaranteed reliable, as its taking the sata straight from the mac pro >> motherboard, and its cheap enough to be worth a punt. >> >> http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-025-AK >> >> Is an example of one, but I know there is a mac-pro specific kit out there >> which may look prettier. From memory the extra sata ports are sort of on >> the top right of the mac pro board as you look at it in the case, and one >> will probably be in use for your dvd drive. >> >> Toby >> >> On 29 October 2010 09:36, Graham Street <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> Can anyone recommend a good (and reasonable price) eSata card that will plug >> into a Mac Pro please. >> I now have an external eSata dock. It will plug in via USB2 but the eSata >> port will be so much faster. >> Thanks, Graham >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
