{"id":28,"date":"2008-10-17T22:58:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T03:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/?p=28"},"modified":"2008-10-17T23:01:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T04:01:27","slug":"ngear-esata-expresscard-uses-the-sil3132-chipset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/blog\/2008\/10\/17\/ngear-esata-expresscard-uses-the-sil3132-chipset\/","title":{"rendered":"nGear eSata ExpressCard uses the Sil3132 chipset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well, despite what the tech. support guy from nGear told me, there eSata ExpressCard is not using the JMB360 chipset but rather the Sil3132 chipset which I wanted to avoid. In fact, when I talked to the guy, he did not know off hand, so he checked the drivers supplied with the card. As a matter of fact, the drivers on the CD that came with the ExpressCard are for the JMicron (JMB360) chipset. However, I could not use these drivers because they were for Windows, and I am using OS X on a Macbook Pro. The card did not get recognized by my MBP at first, so I downloaded the drivers from the JMicron web site. It did not help.<\/p>\n<p>In my system profiler, under PCI Cards, I could see the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ExpressCard:<\/p>\n<p>Type:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Other Mass Storage Controller<br \/>\nDriver Installed:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No<br \/>\nBus:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PCI<br \/>\nSlot:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PCI Slot 3<br \/>\nVendor ID:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0x1095<br \/>\nDevice ID:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0x3132<br \/>\nSubsystem Vendor ID:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0x1095<br \/>\nSubsystem ID:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0x3132<br \/>\nRevision ID:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0x0001<br \/>\nLink Width:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 x1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, I did some research, and I found out that Vendor ID 0x1095 means &#8220;Silicon Image&#8221;. I was a bit confused by this. In order to check whether my eSata ExpressCard was using the Sil3132 chipset from Silicon Image, I <a title=\"Sil3132 chipset drivers download page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconimage.com\/support\/supportsearchresults.aspx?pid=32&amp;cid=3&amp;ctid=2&amp;osid=3&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">downloaded the drivers for it<\/a>, and guess what! My MBP recognized the ExpressCard after installing the Sil3132 drivers and rebooting! I could not believe it. That means the drivers provided on the CD are not for the ExpressCard it came with. In fact, there are drivers for various cards on the CD. Here the folders on it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>expresscard to esata<\/li>\n<li>expresscard to rs232<\/li>\n<li>Pcmcia Serial Combo<\/li>\n<li>PCMCIA Serial RS232<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, I checked the drivers in the <em>expresscard to esata<\/em> directory. I don&#8217;t understand. It means that the drivers on the CD are not for the ExpressCard that was in the same package.<\/p>\n<p>The ExpressCard is working fine. I could do a backup on my external drive using the Time Machine. However, I am not expecting to be able to boot from my external drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well, despite what the tech. support guy from nGear told me, there eSata ExpressCard is not using the JMB360 chipset but rather the Sil3132 chipset which I wanted to avoid. In fact, when I talked to the guy, he did not know off hand, so he checked the drivers supplied with the card. As [&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":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","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=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}