{"id":133,"date":"2010-01-02T17:22:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T22:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/?p=133"},"modified":"2010-01-02T17:24:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T22:24:44","slug":"ppa-intl-esata-expresscard-working-with-snow-leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/blog\/2010\/01\/02\/ppa-intl-esata-expresscard-working-with-snow-leopard\/","title":{"rendered":"My PPA Int\u2019l eSata ExpressCard is finally working with Snow Leopard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After I had read a post about someone who managed to boot his Macbook Pro from an external drive using a <a title=\"PPA Int'l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ppa-usa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">PPA Int\u2019l<\/a> eSata ExpressCard, I ordered such a card too. However, it did not work fro me. My external drive would not mount. I never found out why, but after I upgraded to Snow Leopard, I decided to give it a try again, and I found out that my eSata ExpressCard that had been siting in a drawer for ages was now working. I am using the same external drive that I had try about a year ago, and it has now been working perfectly for over a month now. I am even set up my TimeMachine to do backup on that drive, and it is working without a glitch. My MBP is an early 2008 one, just in case it makes a difference.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I have to tell though is that <a title=\"PPA Int'l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ppa-usa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">PPA Int\u2019l<\/a> support is very poor. I got only one reply from them telling me to try the <a title=\"drivers from the JMicron web site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jmicron.com\/Driver.htm\" target=\"_blank\">drivers from the JMicron web site<\/a>, which did not work with OS X 10.5.x. After I have never been able to get anymore support from them. They would not reply to my e-mails.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t tried though to boot from an external drive using the eSata card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I had read a post about someone who managed to boot his Macbook Pro from an external drive using a PPA Int\u2019l eSata ExpressCard, I ordered such a card too. However, it did not work fro me. My external drive would not mount. I never found out why, but after I upgraded to Snow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10,8,9],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","tag-esata","tag-macbook-pro","tag-snow-leopard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}