Lycom Port muliplier capable two port CardBus Host
Card
Mounts
up to 10 drives on your mobile computer
Mac and PC compatible
An easy way to
add safe high speed storage to your
mobile computer
for video, audio and photo libraries.
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Including
Vista & Linux
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This card allows you to mount up to 10 drives at once on your
Powerbook or Laptop computer when used in conjunction with our line of Burly
Port Multiplier Enclosures. By using the Hot Swap function
with these enclosures you can have unlimited libraries quickly at hand. Attaching
drives in this manner you can easily share them back and forth between your
mobile computer and a desktop machine for ease of data transfer or archiving
purposes. For example, capture video or photos on your Powerbook to a portable
enclosure then swap those drives into a desktop enclosure for editing on your
workstation. Software RAIDs may be created via Disk Utility (Mac) or Disk
Management (PC) for redundancy or performance gains. You may also direct connect
these two ports to a single
bay or two
bay SATA Enclosure for a more mobile solution.
- **MacOSX 10.4 G4 Powerbooks!**
- PC Capable Windows 32 or 64 bit including Vista
- Two Port multiplier capable eSATA connectors each able to mount up to
5 drives
- Supports FIS-based switching
- Supports hard drives of any size, no size limits
- PC Card 32 bit CardBus fully compliant
- Dual high speed Serial ATA interface ports, each supporting Serial ATA
Generation 2 transfer rate of 1.5Gb/s
- Fully compliant with Serial ATA 1.0a and Serial ATA II Extensions to Serial
ATA 1.0a Specifications revision 1.1
- Two LEDs indicators for HDD access
- Hot-plug capability
- Supports First-party DMA commands for Native Command Queuing
- Complete with drivers for Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, XP and Vista
**Mac Powerbook G4's require driver
download and installation from
Silicon Image. Click
here, download and install the Version 2.0.3 Driver
installer package.**
This host card has eSATA Ports:
eSATA, an external connection method for the SATA specification, is used
on this card. More robust and better grounded, these connectors are the choice
for external connected storage. Be aware though, confusion is also going to
be common as the eSATA connectors are VERY similar in appearance to the older
SATA Type A connectors. Use of an eSATA to eSATA external cable is currently
needed to connect to the MacGurus Burly Enclosure. Be sure to select eSATA
cables when ordering a companion Burly to go with your Lycom host card.
NOTE: This card is not bootable.
Note: Mac users
must download a driver available
here for the card to be recognized. Download driver
version 2.0.3. Once the card has been physically installed, unzip
the file and run the Sil3124 Mac OS X installer. Verify that the card is
recognized by
System Profiler in the "Hardware/PCI Cards" location. It will be
seen as "pci1095,3124". Attach the drive enclosure and power it
up. Your drives should be available in Disk Utility to be Formatted, Zeroed
Out and renamed. You may also create a software RAID 0 (Striped) or RAID 1
(Mirrored) array in Disk Utility.
Lycom Port Multiplier capable
Two Port CardBus Host Card
Made to work with the Lycom Port Multiplier host cards
MacGurus Burly Port Multiplier Enclosures are made for the maximum
in reliability, capacity and speed. These interface perfectly with the Lycom
eSATA cards giving you the best of all storage worlds. Click the image to see
the full line up.
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