64bit Red Rocket drivers Snow Leopard

[Alex Carr]

So are there any 64bit drivers available for The RedRocket? Are they in the works? The rest of my machine loves 64bit, but I need to use 32 bit Kernel If I want to use the Rocket. The Rocket is the only Hardware I want to use that isn't supported in 64bit. My sil3132 chips operate much smoother in 64 bit/

When the Red Station comes out, In order to use the e-sata port you'll need a Chipset, For me e-sata is the most reliable with sil3132 chips, The Marvell(Sonnet Pro) and Jmicron363/393(which you'll only see on PC motherboards) works but sil3132 is more reliable in my opinion... I'm mostly talking about PCI-e 3132 cards. The CF Card reader is much more responsive in mounting and unmounting cards when running on a 64 bit Kernel. In 32bit, Cards don't want to mount if there is another operation in progress on the chipset(3132). Which just makes me wait a few minutes... I didn't need to wait in 64 bit... And I had better luck with 32bit in Leopard 10.5.8 than 10.6.4/ But the performance difference between 10.6.4 and 10.5.8 is a little dramatic, as long as your in 64 bit.

So are there any Snow Leopard Beta 64 bit Rocket drivers we can play with?

 

[Deanan]

Rocket drivers are already both 64 and 32bit.

 

[Lucas Wilson]

So are there any 64bit drivers available for The RedRocket?

I know you said Snow Leopard, but Win7 x64 drivers for RED Rocket have been available for months. That is what SCRATCH uses exclusively.

Lucas

Lucas Wilson
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ASSIMILATE, inc.
LA, CA, USA

 

[Alexander Ibrahim]

Rocket drivers are already both 64 and 32bit.

Does having 64 bit positively impact Rocket's performance or is it more of a compatibility thing?

Are the RED apps 64 bit or 32? I imagine that they do deal with large data sets, so I can see value in 64 bit. Would it affect performance in RED's case?

 

[Alex Carr]

Like I said I've noticed certain hardware operates better when a 64bit kernel and extension are loaded. The rocket card I rented was running older firmware, I got the okay to re-flash it when the job was almost over. No worries, It worked exceptionally well in 32 bit, even though some of my other hardware wasnt very happy.