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Sonnet Thunderbolt adapter - Macbook Air

Danai Chutinaton said:
So i have the sonnet echo which needs drivers but the drivers are pulled from the sonnet site. I'm definitely returning it now. Thanks all, very informative thread.
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They say (or said) on that site that if you are running Lion you don't need their drivers.
 
joe hedge said:
They say (or said) on that site that if you are running Lion you don't need their drivers.
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In an ideal world that would be right, but something still is amiss. The Echo ExpressCard adapter I got my hands on refused to work on my 15" MBP (running OSX "Lion" 10.7.2). Had to install their drivers to make it work. Would not recognize any card other than the one Sonnet card that was also handed to me. Would not work on the brand new iMac running Lion that it was purchased to be used with, with or without drivers. Client called Sonnet several times, got different answers ranging from people who didn't even know what product he was trying to get help for to "you need drivers" to "you don't need drivers if you're running Lion". Yeah, whatever.. Sent it back. I would be inclined to believe that it might have been a defective unit. However, nearly everyone I have talked to that has got their hands on one of these has almost the same story to report.
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
I would be inclined to believe that it might have been a defective unit. However, nearly everyone I have talked to that has got their hands on one of these has almost the same story to report.
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Copy...pretty remarkable that it only seems to work on laptops...can't wait for TB to actually work as advertised, both in terms of promised bandwidth and promised products
 
I received one of these a week or so ago. I've so far had good experiences with it. Operated without drivers, but only with the cards advertised. The locking mechanism for the Express Cards is pretty weak, and I'm afraid to breath on it during any file operations. I think I was fortunate, but I think it's really bad that the device isn't living up to the usually-high expectations I have of Sonnet.
 
Christopher Reig said:
I received one of these a week or so ago. I've so far had good experiences with it. Operated without drivers, but only with the cards advertised. The locking mechanism for the Express Cards is pretty weak, and I'm afraid to breath on it during any file operations. I think I was fortunate, but I think it's really bad that the device isn't living up to the usually-high expectations I have of Sonnet.
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We sort of agree... it works here, but the locking mechanism is not good... that said... if you leave it alone (dont play with it or move it) it works well - well it does for us.

Mike
 
I have a slight re review of the echo. I finally got it working but only under very specific circumstances. funny enough, my sonnet tempo pro works better in the echo right now than it does in my expresscard reader. I've always had trouble mounting a second drive when using the expresscard. but did a full day's worth of SxS offloading, two g drives connected to the tempo pro in the echo. and expresscard slot with the SxS. worked flawlessly, and it was actually kind of a relief to be able to offload SxS without having to daisy chain on the firewire now. and even opens up the firewire port for other readers or drives.

but i DID need drivers to install it on snow leopard, which they took down off their site. it will not work on snow leopard without the drivers. if anybody needs them PM me.

and the main conflict i had before was having a second esata card in the expresscard slot while the other one was plugged into the echo. it could be a combination of different brand cards, and driver conflicts. I need to do more tests to see if i can get two tempo pro cards running, but I doubt it would, although I'd be happy if it did. and I have to do more tests with ejecting and mounting drives through the echo, ie. red station. I remember it crashing out my computer a lot doing hot swaps. It's important that you have everything plugged into the card and echo with the computer shut off too. and turn the hard drives on and boot up the comp. I'll give another verdict once I have time to run more tests as of now, having 2 drives with the echo and the expresscard for SxS works well.
 
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