LINDY Technical Support Forum

ALD872B · by **ALD872B** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 10:39 am Reply with quote

I have a Lindy 51520 eSATA card which generally works well under OSX Snow Leopard however I can' t see it at boot (option key held down).
Is there a fix for this ?
I want to try Lion on an external drive before I commit the laptop !
I can boot Firewire or USB but USB is impossibly slow and the SATA enclosure doesn't have Firewire....

Is there a firmware update for the card ?

Many thanks.

LINDY Steve · by **LINDY Steve** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 3:32 pm Reply with quote

Hi,

I'm afraid it is not possible to upgrade the firmware for this card. Can you provide technical details on the computer you are using and I will make further enquiries.

ALD872B · by **ALD872B** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:05 pm Reply with quote

"About" says:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.5 GHz

pauljames · by **pauljames** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:05 pm Reply with quote

HI,

I have just purchased the same card (51520) and I can not get OSX Lion to interact with it on any level. Is there a driver update on it's way?

Early 2009 Unibody MBP
Mac OS X 10.7.2
2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
8GB 1067 MHz DDR3 RAM

ALD872B · by **ALD872B** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:16 pm Reply with quote

I have now bought the Lindy single port eSATA card 51525 because it has the Jmicron controller. This card does boot the MBP from its old drive that is now in an external enclosure. I upgraded the disk drive when I ran low on space.
Haven't got to Lion yet so don't know what works.

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