leftbrain Posted July 7, 2010 Share Posted July 7, 2010 I noticed that Caldigit wrote their own drivers for OSX USB3.0 support for their new products, which include a PCIE/USB3 card and an Expresscard USB3 card option. Not only is this really cool, but I was wondering whether this development could help bring support for USB3 to some of the new USB3 motherboards out there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackshore Posted July 8, 2010 Share Posted July 8, 2010 I noticed that Caldigit wrote their own drivers for OSX USB3.0 support for their new products, which include a PCIE/USB3 card and an Expresscard USB3 card option. Not only is this really cool, but I was wondering whether this development could help bring support for USB3 to some of the new USB3 motherboards out there? That could be cool. Is the driver opensource? Any link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leftbrain Posted July 8, 2010 Author Share Posted July 8, 2010 That could be cool.Is the driver opensource? Any link? They haven't posted the driver on their site yet, probably happen very soon. I'll keep an eye out for the link. I was hoping someone far more advanced than I, could take a look at whatever kext pops up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielmramos Posted October 13, 2010 Share Posted October 13, 2010 They haven't posted the driver on their site yet, probably happen very soon. I'll keep an eye out for the link. I was hoping someone far more advanced than I, could take a look at whatever kext pops up. I just read about that myself. At the very least it is good to know that there is a solution out there for only $79. Who will be the first to try out their card on a hackintosh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muchlife Posted October 13, 2010 Share Posted October 13, 2010 an OSX driver for a device or peripheral like this, often really comes down to the chipset or controller. For example the RealtekR1000 LAN driver works for several LAN chipsets Realtek makes. The wireless driver for my AIRLINK101 usb dongle, has the same chipset as several other USB wireless dongles on the market, and the same driver works for all products, because the chipset is the same Since Caldigit product and driver is working with the NEC chip that almost all other USB 3 products have, I can't imagine that it WOULD NOT work with other motherboards or PCI express cards. I bought a USB 3.0 card from meritline 2 weeks back for $14 free ship, and as soon as I get my hands on that caldigit driver I will test it in my several Giga EP45 10.5 hackintosh's I was curious if they are hesitating posting it, due to it being copied by other manufacturers who want to say their USB 3 product is now compatible with MAC...? Hopefully if they dont post it, someone who buys their PCIe card will share it with the world soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefoul Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 Don't wanna curb your enthusiasm guys but today I spent the whole day on the caldigit driver with no success. Despite the fact their card is based on the same chip featured by gigabyte ga-x58a-ud3r rev 2....the subvendor ID is different (one is form China and the other is from JAPAN). Even though I found the correct string to pass to the .plist file inside the kext....the driver doesn't work. What drives me crazy is that my modded kext gets loaded with no errors but the unix driver inside it doesn't come up. This means that the developers specifically prevented any other vendor/sub-vendor id from being recognized. Result: IORegistry shows the chip as registered and matched but the kext doesn't work. Too bad.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoGs Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 To add to the above post, I tried an original Caldigit Expresscard in my 1st gen 15" unibody MBP. It installs and works fine, except they also limit full USB 3.0 operation to their own external drives only. Any other flavour of USB 3.0 drive only runs as USB 2.0. That said it did work well. Also, tried a Shintaro USB 3.0 Expresscard with the Caldigit driver loaded. Caused an instant kernel panic when inserted or on boot. At least someone can get USB 3.0 on OS X going, just is a limited and pricey option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolishOX Posted October 28, 2010 Share Posted October 28, 2010 I'd like anyone who actually has the caldigit usb3.0 drivers to please upload them and paste a link. I know a few devs who want these to try and create a fix for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartri Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Hello guys. I was working on a XHCI kext based on FreeBSD initial sources for making a universal usb3 kext for the OS. As it is impossible to find such a board here in Brazil, could anyone share the kext/installer so we could maybe put some pieces together and provide a full xhci compliant universal kext? Don't wanna curb your enthusiasm guys but today I spent the whole day on the caldigit driver with no success. Despite the fact their card is based on the same chip featured by gigabyte ga-x58a-ud3r rev 2....the subvendor ID is different (one is form China and the other is from JAPAN). Even though I found the correct string to pass to the .plist file inside the kext....the driver doesn't work. What drives me crazy is that my modded kext gets loaded with no errors but the unix driver inside it doesn't come up. This means that the developers specifically prevented any other vendor/sub-vendor id from being recognized. Result: IORegistry shows the chip as registered and matched but the kext doesn't work. Too bad.... i smell a little binary missing a hex editor inside this kext Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolishOX Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 The people in this thread won't host the .dmg. They also do NOT reply to PMs. So I guess we are stuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartri Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 =/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stellarola Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Bump. Everyone, this is important. -Stell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartri Posted November 3, 2010 Share Posted November 3, 2010 Some mod please pin out on news about this card and talk about this thread - This can be the start (or the end if what i did until now fit on this) of a XHCI project for Mac OS X - it would hit this patent-denial-agenda from apple on USB3/lightpeak in a totally legal form. Just to share, I can initialize a usb3 port from U3S6 with my kext mods but i cant get a valid uim yet, even applying the known packs - my initial trial is to make the first version of the xhc be only a ehci mode port with 900mAh Some mod please pin out on news about this card and talk about this thread - This can be the start (or the end if what i did until now fit on this) of a XHCI project for Mac OS X - it would hit this patent-denial-agenda from apple on USB3/lightpeak in a totally legal form. Just to share, I can initialize a usb3 port from U3S6 with my kext mods but i cant get a valid uim yet, even applying the known packs - my initial trial is to make the first version of the xhc be only a ehci mode port with 900mAh Well, ill blog asking for this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartri Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Some mod please pin out on news about this card and talk about this thread - This can be the start (or the end if what i did until now fit on this) of a XHCI project for Mac OS X - it would hit this patent-denial-agenda from apple on USB3/lightpeak in a totally legal form. Just to share, I can initialize a usb3 port from U3S6 with my kext mods but i cant get a valid uim yet, even applying the known packs - my initial trial is to make the first version of the xhc be only a ehci mode port with 900mAh Well, ill blog asking for this Good News: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NIVQI9BY Good News #2: http://www.caldigit.com/opensource.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jestera Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Lacie have released a USB 3.0 driver for OSX. I have installed it ok on my hackintosh (Gigabyte x58-UDR3 v2.0) board and it comes up in system profiler as a 'USB Super speed Bus' (See the attachment). The downer is I haven't got a USB 3.0 device to test it out. You can get the driver from this link on the Lacie site: http://www.lacie.com/more/index.htm?id=10112 Read the instructions and you can see the download link. Can someone test it out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartri Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Lacie have released a USB 3.0 driver for OSX. I have installed it ok on my hackintosh (Gigabyte x58-UDR3 v2.0) board and it comes up in system profiler as a 'USB Super speed Bus' (See the attachment). The downer is I haven't got a USB 3.0 device to test it out. You can get the driver from this link on the Lacie site: http://www.lacie.com/more/index.htm?id=10112 Read the instructions and you can see the download link. Can someone test it out? Thaaaaaank you! do you know if its NEC based? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtessier Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Thaaaaaank you!do you know if its NEC based? Since he installed the driver on his Gigabyte X58A-UD3R, and it seems to have picked up the device properly, I would say the LaCie PCIe USB3 card is indeed NEC-based (the X58A-UD3R has a NEC uPD720200 on-board). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jestera Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Lacie don't say exactly which chip it is, but they say: LaCie USB 3.0 PCI ExpressCard main features Add two USB 3.0 ports to your computer. The fastest technology available on the market (up to 5Gb/s). NEC component for the highest level of performance and compatibility. Backward compatible with USB 2.0 devices So it is NEC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartri Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Better then that, i could not see a subvendor id on this. it seems to simply match the 0330 class (usb3). And also it does not modify the IOUSBFamily, so, or this is some kind of cosmetical kext to make the ports just work as normal and say they are 3.0 or they really made a great job on that. I will test on U3S6 this weekend PS asus also uses D720200F1 NEC chip. these boards will sell like crazy if apple dont truncate the actual iousbfamily like they did with the ALC88x. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stellarola Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 This is fantastic. I'm about to try it when I get off work. -Stell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartri Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Argh, i cant hold myself, i will plug this right now, tell you what happens in some moments. it works works works works still no usb3 device here so it reports 500mAh and 480Mbps ill screenshot soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jestera Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Thanks for the screenshots! Hopefully someone out there has a USB 3 device to definitely make sure it works and can let us know the kind of speeds they get using it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartri Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 ops, i did shot one wrong, this is more valid: And so, can anyone get 0x3e8 (1Ah) or at least 0x384 (900mAh) in these ports current? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richtig Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Would be interesting to find out: USB 3.0 external HD "works" vs. USB 3.0 HD "bootable". Also: "Windows bootable" external USB 3.0 vs. "OSX bootable" external USB 3.0. Making Windows bootable on an external USB 2.0 (or 3.0) HD is possible, but seems to require some re-engineering of the install disc. Not sure about relative difficulty of a Windows vs. an OSX bootable external USB HD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangten Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Can some one also post there spec's of there hardware when posting benches and info if tested? There are instances that hardware can't give optimal speed do to how USB3 is implemented. For instance if your drive or array can't technically reach speeds to saturated the WRITE/READ of a storage or device. Also if one has external SATA2 or SATA3 is USB 3 running currently on a Hackintosh even worth the candle? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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