I recently purchased a Sans Digital TowerRaid TR4M.
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While I don't really want/need a RAID setup, it looked like I could do single-drive JBOD. In other words, mount four drives separately via one eSATA connection.
The case is beautiful, and I like how the SATA drives can just slide in and out. But I cannot get the thing to work how I want.
Here are the issues.
1. The driver for the SiL-3132 PCI-X port-multiplier card is outdated and only supports up to 10.5.1, and via Rosetta at that. Installing the card with the "latest (2007)" drivers on my Hackintosh led to the four drives being mounted separately, but as soon as I started messing around with them, I got a kernel panic.
2. My hackintosh has the GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard, and apparently, one can do JBOD from the GSATA ports via the eSATA controller. I turned on the RAID function in the BIOS and plugged in the drive via the eSATA adapter. But alas, only one drive is showing up in the list of drives. And more I read, the more that I worry that by JBOD, they really mean concatenating - another accepted definition of JBOD, apparently. I don't want that - I want each drive mounted separately.
So, I don't have a solution. Any suggestions are appreciated.
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While I don't really want/need a RAID setup, it looked like I could do single-drive JBOD. In other words, mount four drives separately via one eSATA connection.
The case is beautiful, and I like how the SATA drives can just slide in and out. But I cannot get the thing to work how I want.
Here are the issues.
1. The driver for the SiL-3132 PCI-X port-multiplier card is outdated and only supports up to 10.5.1, and via Rosetta at that. Installing the card with the "latest (2007)" drivers on my Hackintosh led to the four drives being mounted separately, but as soon as I started messing around with them, I got a kernel panic.
2. My hackintosh has the GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard, and apparently, one can do JBOD from the GSATA ports via the eSATA controller. I turned on the RAID function in the BIOS and plugged in the drive via the eSATA adapter. But alas, only one drive is showing up in the list of drives. And more I read, the more that I worry that by JBOD, they really mean concatenating - another accepted definition of JBOD, apparently. I don't want that - I want each drive mounted separately.
So, I don't have a solution. Any suggestions are appreciated.
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