MacBook :: Connect An ESATA Card Or FireWire 800 To 2008?

May 31, 2012

I have a late 2008 12" MacBook with a FireWire 400 slot (only).  I am hooking up an 8TB Raid hard drive to it for digitizing, backup and editing on FCP 6 and would like to have a higher speed available than the laptop's FireWire 400 provides.  Is there a way to augment/build out the MacBook to utilize either a FireWire 800 slot or an eSATA EC2 card?  I don't think this version of the MacBook (MacBook4,1) has a PCI or PCIe card slot.  Although I believe it may have a mini-PCIe card somewhere, as the last page of the Users Guide says (under Europe—EU Declaration of Conformity):

"Hereby, Apple Inc. declares that this 802.11a/b/g/n Mini-PCIe card is in compliance with the R&TTE Directive."

Info:
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Dup

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MacBook Pro :: Connect ESata Through Firewire?

Aug 17, 2009

I recently got a few external HDD, and for the life of me couldn't find any Firewire equipped enclosures. Seems eSata and USB have taken the standard.

So I decided to just suck it up and use USB.

Now apple has taken away the express card slot, is there any way to utilise eSata on a MBP? The only conceivable way would be through firewire.

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Jun 13, 2010

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Dec 12, 2010

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Jan 25, 2009

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Nov 13, 2007

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Information:
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Mac OS X (10.4.10)
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Jul 10, 2008

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Nov 8, 2009

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-Will USB 2.0 handle the bandwith well or do I really need something such as Firewire or eSATA?

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Mar 31, 2009

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Nov 25, 2010

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Apr 16, 2012

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Info:
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Oct 12, 2009

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Feb 24, 2010

Just got the new Newertech 6G ESATA card from OWC and I'm having problems getting my ESATA cable fitting into it. It does not go in very far, and never latches on to the two tabs. Before I go out and buy a new cable or return the card, please take a look at the two pics and tell me what's wrong. I'm afraid to try to force the cable in harder since it doesn't seem normal that there should be so much resistance.

EDIT: Jammed it in real hard and it seems to have seated itself, but the drive is not showing on the desktop or in Disk Utility. Mac Pro recognizes the card just fine (slot 4). Will try another cable, but something feels wrong about the card. It shouldn't take this much force to plug the cable in.

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Feb 8, 2012

I just got the external harddrive "Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex USB 3.0 1TB" with a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Upgrade Kabel FireWire 800. I have neither a USB 3.0, nor a Firewire 800 on my white macbook (2008). I already know, that it's possible to use USB 3.0 with an USB 2.0 port, but I would like to use it with the firewire to spare the USB port for other devices. My question: Is there an adapter or cable to use the Seagate Firewire 800 with my Firewire 400 port? I don't know, where and what to look for. 

Info:
MacBook (13-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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Jan 12, 2010

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Mar 12, 2008

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I've been scouring the message boards and forums and have found cards by CalDigit, FirmTek and Sonnet, but I have no idea if any of these will support with Boot Camp/Windows.

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Aug 21, 2009

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2) How does one remedy the problem?

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Mar 1, 2010

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May 27, 2010

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Nov 10, 2010

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Oct 6, 2009

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May 13, 2010

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1 Will it work with the Thunderbolt Display port? 

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Info:
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Sep 19, 2007

I just bought a

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I wanted to get it going immediately, and living in NYC I also bought the only PCI-X card I could find from Tekserve, a

Lacie Sata II 3Gb/s PCI-X Card 4E

I installed the card and driver on my Powermac G5 Dual 2.0, (10.4.10), and although System Profiler recognizes the card on the PCI bus, it will not recognize the drive through the Esata connection. I tried all four of the ports, and nothing. Disk utility shows nothing there.

The G5 does recognize the drive through the USB 2.0 connection.

I don't know whether this card is compatible or not, and I can't find any information on what would be online.

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Mar 26, 2010

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