{"id":49,"date":"2008-11-27T23:05:39","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T04:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/?p=49"},"modified":"2010-01-02T17:27:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T22:27:48","slug":"i-got-my-ppa-intl-esata-expresscard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/blog\/2008\/11\/27\/i-got-my-ppa-intl-esata-expresscard\/","title":{"rendered":"I got my PPA Int&#8217;l eSata ExpressCard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the misadventure with my nGear eSata EpressCard, I returned it, and I ordered a PPA Int&#8217;l eSata ExpressCard. This card uses the JMicron chipset and thus was recognized automatically by my MacBook Pro (OS X v10.5.5). It was not easy to find an ExpressCard with that chipset in Canada. Of course, it would have been possible to order it from the states, but then sometimes there is a custom fee to pay. I found my card here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.ca\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16839228002\">http:\/\/www.newegg.ca\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16839228002<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is how the card is recognised by in SystemProfiler:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ExpressCard:<\/p>\n<p>Type:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 AHCI Controller<br \/>\nDriver Installed:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes<br \/>\nBus:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PCI<br \/>\nSlot:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PCI Slot 3<br \/>\nVendor ID:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0x197b<br \/>\nDevice ID:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0x2363<br \/>\nSubsystem Vendor ID:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0x197b<br \/>\nSubsystem ID:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0x2363<br \/>\nRevision ID:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0x0003<br \/>\nLink Width:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 x1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Although I have a SATA drive connected to the eSata ExpressCard, the drive does not appear under Serial-ATA but under ATA in the System Profiler.<\/p>\n<p>When I turned on my MBP with the ExpressCard and my external hard-drive connected, I did not find an icon for the hard-drive and I got a bit worried. I took a little while before appearing. At some point, my MBP froze and I still don&#8217;t know why. After rebooting, the external hard-drive never reappeared. So I switched cable, and connected it through a USB port. The drive got mounted fine. Then I thought about something. The Vantec enclosure I am using turns off the drive when it is not used for a while. I thought, maybe if the drive is not active, it is not seen by the ExpressCard. So I unmounted the drive and switched back to the eSata connection while the drive was still &#8220;active&#8221;. It got recognized and mounted automatically. Issuing the mount command in a shell, I could see how the drive was mounted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\/dev\/disk1s1 on \/Volumes\/Data (hfs, local, nodev, nosuid, journaled)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, I decided to &#8220;eject&#8221; the drive and to try remounting it with the following command:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>mount_hfs -o nodev,nosuid\u00a0 \/dev\/disk1s1 \/Volumes\/Data<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, if I reboot my MBP, the mount_hfs trick does not work anymore because \/dev\/disk1s1 does not exist anymore. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE (2010-01-02): My PPA Int&#8217;l eSata ExpressCard is working now that I have installed Snow Leopard. See my new post: <a title=\"http:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/mac\/ppa-intl-esata-expresscard-working-with-snow-leopard\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/mac\/ppa-intl-esata-expresscard-working-with-snow-leopard\/\" target=\"_self\">http:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/mac\/ppa-intl-esata-expresscard-working-with-snow-leopard\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the misadventure with my nGear eSata EpressCard, I returned it, and I ordered a PPA Int&#8217;l eSata ExpressCard. This card uses the JMicron chipset and thus was recognized automatically by my MacBook Pro (OS X v10.5.5). It was not easy to find an ExpressCard with that chipset in Canada. Of course, it would have [&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-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","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=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beauchamp.me\/techno\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}