Snow Leopard doesn't seem to like mirrored RAID sets created in Leopard.
Drives used: WD MyBook Essential 1TB, Fantom 1TB. Might be just a drive issue (but both??) and (more likely) an SL issue.
So back up your data on your Leopard-created RAID sets and then re-create them in SL.
IF SL hangs, freezes, or otherwise requires you to reboot because it does not recognize your Leopard-created RAID set, DO NOT delete the set in SL. It will destroy all partition and directory info on the drives. Your data might still be there but you might need Data Rescue II or a similar utility to recover it.
Install or re-install Leopard, back up your RAID set, and proceed.
Most people really don't use a RAID configuration in OS X, especially when it comes to notebooks and home-use iMacs (I assume), but for the few that do, it looks like (at least in my case) SL did not like RAID sets created in Leopard.
It's either that, or I failed to note that you should back up RAID sets before doing a clean install of a new OS, and then re-create the set in the new OS. I'm a RAID noob anyway, but I assumed OS X would recognize RAID drives created in earlier versions.
Got all my data back, though.
Should I worry about my internal RAID 5 in my 2008 Mac Pro failing? I just ran the SL install right over my old Leopard install. Seems to be running perfectly as far as I can tell after only a few hours of doing next to nothing besides web browsing.
UPDATE it in software update to 3.1.2 BEFORE upgrading to Snow Leopard. They only provide this upgrade inside the software with the built in updater.... then you'll be fine using it in Snow Leopard.
If you do like me and didn't check, and upgraded to Snow Leopard and now cannot launch the program to even do an update, you have to go download the 3.1.3 Beta version and run that, no way to manually get 3.1.2
I have EyeTV 3.1.2 installed on my Leopard HD inside my 4 x 1.5TB 2008 Harpertown Mac Pro. I installed SL on a second HD so I could easily boot back to Leopard if need be. I also chose not to copy any applications to the new SL install HD. How should we migrate 3.1.2 over to the SL volume? I see I can launch it from the Leopard volume while in SL on the other one and the TV Guide listings updated fine. But the tuner drivers are not installed over no the SL volume so no signals coming in. Any thoughts? Do you know where the drivers are over in Leopard that I might manually copy to the same place in the SL Library? thanks
:mad as Hell at Epson and here's why, "Epson is fully committed to supporting Macintosh OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and we are working on providing Snow Leopard drivers for as many Epson products as possible. The Epson model you selected does not currently have a Snow Leopard driver available. We invite you to periodically check this page for new Snow Leopard drivers."
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I used to use an Epson printer back when I also used MS operating system. I will not rule out going back to MS operating system, because Apple still does an exceedingly poor job at rendering text graphically, but if I go back to MS operating system, I'll never go back to Epson peripheral. Whenever I needed to find a driver for my printer, I would go to Apple's web site and do the lookup, and I would find a list of at list a half-dozen different files, with no useful information about what were the differences between the different files. It basically was just thrown out there for you to experiment with as you say fit. I never thought that was acceptable. To me way of thinking, they should have provided information explaining when each file was produced, what it amounted to precisely, and the important differences between it and any alternatives. There was no information of that sort, at all. It was very much lip service as far as I was concerned. Of course I called their tech support but that was just a waste of time as it usually is. I subsequently bought an Epson scanner and had similar issues with it. The GUI application was poorly constructed and the documentation was badly written. If Epson gives lip service to the PC support, what chance is there that they will care much about Mac users?
Snow Leopard doesn't seem to like mirrored RAID sets created in Leopard.
Drives used: WD MyBook Essential 1TB, Fantom 1TB. Might be just a drive issue (but both??) and (more likely) an SL issue.
So back up your data on your Leopard-created RAID sets and then re-create them in SL.
IF SL hangs, freezes, or otherwise requires you to reboot because it does not recognize your Leopard-created RAID set, DO NOT delete the set in SL. It will destroy all partition and directory info on the drives. Your data might still be there but you might need Data Rescue II or a similar utility to recover it.
Install or re-install Leopard, back up your RAID set, and proceed.
Most people really don't use a RAID configuration in OS X, especially when it comes to notebooks and home-use iMacs (I assume), but for the few that do, it looks like (at least in my case) SL did not like RAID sets created in Leopard.
Glad you had a good outcome to this. I use RAID sets on external FW drives to hold my raw image libraries that have grown way too large to store on my blackbook. TimeMachine isn't a lot of help given that my image library is vastly large than any single FW or USB drive can handle. Someday I'll just pony up and get a Mac Pro, but not this year.
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Should I worry about my internal RAID 5 in my 2008 Mac Pro failing? I just ran the SL install right over my old Leopard install. Seems to be running perfectly as far as I can tell after only a few hours of doing next to nothing besides web browsing.
There's a difference between hardware RAID and "mirrored RAID sets created in Leopard". But I'm guessing you knew that.
Just found out my phone answering software won't work in SL. Just after I completed installing SL on my last Mac of 4. Good news is I can boot off a 250GB Leopard Firewire drive I recently swapped out for a 500GB drive in my 17" MBP and use that as my new answering machine.\
Just found out Apple Leopard version 10.5.7 broke the Apple USB Modem for voice mail and Parliant can't come up with a work around. So now I have to run 10.5.6 on an external FW drive just to keep my Mac based answering machine. Not cool.
Seems it might only be a problem if you do a clean install, not an upgrade. Was speaking at an acquaintance of mine who is an Apple rep, and he suspects it's only an issue if you do a clean install. He nonetheless finds it a bit troubling.
And I was only speaking about Mirrored RAID sets. Can't really comment on the other kinds. Sorry if I didn't make that clear earlier.
Has anybody had any problems with later versions of the iWOW plug-in for iTunes under SL?
I had installed and have been using a recent version(3.01) of iWOW and was surprised to find that SL had moved it to an Incompatible Software directory when I installed SL yesterday. I tried to reinstall the plug-in back into its proper directory but iTunes will not recognize it.
Does anybody know if Apple is wrong in its statement that only older versions of iWOW are incompatible and really that all versions of iWOW are incompatible and thus we have to wait for SRS Labs to produce a compatible version? Or, is the SL installer acting overzealously and the case is that the later versions of iWOW are okay?
SRS Labs website says nothing about potential incompatibilities with OS X and I would guess that SRS wouldn't have released a version of iWOW so late in the development stage of SL as to be incompatible. I haven't contacted customer support at SRS yet, as I am hoping to acquire some more insight into this problem before I deal with them. If nobody else has a definitive solution to this problem, I'll contact SRS and get back to you on it.
As the owner of a design studio I want to upgrade my systems but still a little wary about compatibility with Adobe CS3. I think CS4 was not worth the upgrade at the time and have been happy with 3. Hopefully Adobe will catch up soon (wishful thinking)
Anyone had time to test and had luck with CS3 compatibility ? Particularly Illustrator + Hot door's Cad Tools plug in ?
Really wanting to upgrade to Snow Leopard but don't want our productivity to come to a screeching halt. Thanks for any feedback.
Upgraded last Friday and everything seems to be running smooth from the actual upgrade of the OS. I have had some unexpected crashes in Illustrator and Fireworks. But I can not guarantee it was because of the upgrade. It would sometimes happen to me in Photoshop so who knows. If it keeps it up I will probably re-install CS3 all together. I may even try a clean install of everything some day too.
I agree with you CS4 was not worth the upgrade at the time. And between Adobe and Apple I bet we'll need to upgrade to CS5 soon anyway.
In working with Garmin support we discovered a problem with Garmin's software for downloading and updating maps on the Garmin Nuvi 800 series. Probably extends to other models as well.
Garmin can not identify that the device (GPS) is connected to the system. But it did somehow disable the maps on the Nuvi 855 so that now it is unusable. If you buy a new GPS you won't be able to bring the maps up to date. May not be able to purchase new maps or updates, but have not determined this for sure. This was stated to be a problem of compatibility with Snow Leopard.
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Snow Leopard doesn't seem to like mirrored RAID sets created in Leopard.
Drives used: WD MyBook Essential 1TB, Fantom 1TB. Might be just a drive issue (but both??) and (more likely) an SL issue.
So back up your data on your Leopard-created RAID sets and then re-create them in SL.
IF SL hangs, freezes, or otherwise requires you to reboot because it does not recognize your Leopard-created RAID set, DO NOT delete the set in SL. It will destroy all partition and directory info on the drives. Your data might still be there but you might need Data Rescue II or a similar utility to recover it.
Install or re-install Leopard, back up your RAID set, and proceed.
Most people really don't use a RAID configuration in OS X, especially when it comes to notebooks and home-use iMacs (I assume), but for the few that do, it looks like (at least in my case) SL did not like RAID sets created in Leopard.
It's either that, or I failed to note that you should back up RAID sets before doing a clean install of a new OS, and then re-create the set in the new OS. I'm a RAID noob anyway, but I assumed OS X would recognize RAID drives created in earlier versions.
Got all my data back, though.
Should I worry about my internal RAID 5 in my 2008 Mac Pro failing? I just ran the SL install right over my old Leopard install. Seems to be running perfectly as far as I can tell after only a few hours of doing next to nothing besides web browsing.
if you have EyeTV 3.1.0 or earlier...
UPDATE it in software update to 3.1.2 BEFORE upgrading to Snow Leopard. They only provide this upgrade inside the software with the built in updater.... then you'll be fine using it in Snow Leopard.
If you do like me and didn't check, and upgraded to Snow Leopard and now cannot launch the program to even do an update, you have to go download the 3.1.3 Beta version and run that, no way to manually get 3.1.2
I have EyeTV 3.1.2 installed on my Leopard HD inside my 4 x 1.5TB 2008 Harpertown Mac Pro. I installed SL on a second HD so I could easily boot back to Leopard if need be. I also chose not to copy any applications to the new SL install HD. How should we migrate 3.1.2 over to the SL volume? I see I can launch it from the Leopard volume while in SL on the other one and the TV Guide listings updated fine. But the tuner drivers are not installed over no the SL volume so no signals coming in. Any thoughts? Do you know where the drivers are over in Leopard that I might manually copy to the same place in the SL Library?
:mad as Hell at Epson and here's why, "Epson is fully committed to supporting Macintosh OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and we are working on providing Snow Leopard drivers for as many Epson products as possible. The Epson model you selected does not currently have a Snow Leopard driver available. We invite you to periodically check this page for new Snow Leopard drivers."
1 Gremlin
I used to use an Epson printer back when I also used MS operating system. I will not rule out going back to MS operating system, because Apple still does an exceedingly poor job at rendering text graphically, but if I go back to MS operating system, I'll never go back to Epson peripheral. Whenever I needed to find a driver for my printer, I would go to Apple's web site and do the lookup, and I would find a list of at list a half-dozen different files, with no useful information about what were the differences between the different files. It basically was just thrown out there for you to experiment with as you say fit. I never thought that was acceptable. To me way of thinking, they should have provided information explaining when each file was produced, what it amounted to precisely, and the important differences between it and any alternatives. There was no information of that sort, at all. It was very much lip service as far as I was concerned. Of course I called their tech support but that was just a waste of time as it usually is. I subsequently bought an Epson scanner and had similar issues with it. The GUI application was poorly constructed and the documentation was badly written. If Epson gives lip service to the PC support, what chance is there that they will care much about Mac users?
Snow Leopard doesn't seem to like mirrored RAID sets created in Leopard.
Drives used: WD MyBook Essential 1TB, Fantom 1TB. Might be just a drive issue (but both??) and (more likely) an SL issue.
So back up your data on your Leopard-created RAID sets and then re-create them in SL.
IF SL hangs, freezes, or otherwise requires you to reboot because it does not recognize your Leopard-created RAID set, DO NOT delete the set in SL. It will destroy all partition and directory info on the drives. Your data might still be there but you might need Data Rescue II or a similar utility to recover it.
Install or re-install Leopard, back up your RAID set, and proceed.
Most people really don't use a RAID configuration in OS X, especially when it comes to notebooks and home-use iMacs (I assume), but for the few that do, it looks like (at least in my case) SL did not like RAID sets created in Leopard.
Glad you had a good outcome to this. I use RAID sets on external FW drives to hold my raw image libraries that have grown way too large to store on my blackbook. TimeMachine isn't a lot of help given that my image library is vastly large than any single FW or USB drive can handle. Someday I'll just pony up and get a Mac Pro, but not this year.
Should I worry about my internal RAID 5 in my 2008 Mac Pro failing? I just ran the SL install right over my old Leopard install. Seems to be running perfectly as far as I can tell after only a few hours of doing next to nothing besides web browsing.
There's a difference between hardware RAID and "mirrored RAID sets created in Leopard". But I'm guessing you knew that.
Just found out Apple Leopard version 10.5.7 broke the Apple USB Modem for voice mail and Parliant can't come up with a work around. So now I have to run 10.5.6 on an external FW drive just to keep my Mac based answering machine. Not cool.
Seems it might only be a problem if you do a clean install, not an upgrade. Was speaking at an acquaintance of mine who is an Apple rep, and he suspects it's only an issue if you do a clean install. He nonetheless finds it a bit troubling.
And I was only speaking about Mirrored RAID sets. Can't really comment on the other kinds. Sorry if I didn't make that clear earlier.
iWOW plug-in for iTunes ver. 2.0 ...
Has anybody had any problems with later versions of the iWOW plug-in for iTunes under SL?
I had installed and have been using a recent version(3.01) of iWOW and was surprised to find that SL had moved it to an Incompatible Software directory when I installed SL yesterday. I tried to reinstall the plug-in back into its proper directory but iTunes will not recognize it.
Does anybody know if Apple is wrong in its statement that only older versions of iWOW are incompatible and really that all versions of iWOW are incompatible and thus we have to wait for SRS Labs to produce a compatible version? Or, is the SL installer acting overzealously and the case is that the later versions of iWOW are okay?
SRS Labs website says nothing about potential incompatibilities with OS X and I would guess that SRS wouldn't have released a version of iWOW so late in the development stage of SL as to be incompatible. I haven't contacted customer support at SRS yet, as I am hoping to acquire some more insight into this problem before I deal with them. If nobody else has a definitive solution to this problem, I'll contact SRS and get back to you on it.
As the owner of a design studio I want to upgrade my systems but still a little wary about compatibility with Adobe CS3. I think CS4 was not worth the upgrade at the time and have been happy with 3. Hopefully Adobe will catch up soon (wishful thinking)
Anyone had time to test and had luck with CS3 compatibility ? Particularly Illustrator + Hot door's Cad Tools plug in ?
Really wanting to upgrade to Snow Leopard but don't want our productivity to come to a screeching halt. Thanks for any feedback.
Upgraded last Friday and everything seems to be running smooth from the actual upgrade of the OS. I have had some unexpected crashes in Illustrator and Fireworks. But I can not guarantee it was because of the upgrade. It would sometimes happen to me in Photoshop so who knows. If it keeps it up I will probably re-install CS3 all together. I may even try a clean install of everything some day too.
I agree with you CS4 was not worth the upgrade at the time. And between Adobe and Apple I bet we'll need to upgrade to CS5 soon anyway.
Garmin can not identify that the device (GPS) is connected to the system. But it did somehow disable the maps on the Nuvi 855 so that now it is unusable. If you buy a new GPS you won't be able to bring the maps up to date. May not be able to purchase new maps or updates, but have not determined this for sure. This was stated to be a problem of compatibility with Snow Leopard.
Everything works.
Even my Canon Image MF4150, which took me three days to find the driver to get it running on Leopard, printed immediately. And without rosetta.
I am in my 5 hour looking for MF4150 driver. could you point me in the right direction
I am in my 5 hour looking for MF4150 driver. could you point me in the right direction
Can you help with location of canon driver for MF4150
http://discussions.apple.com/thread....1488&tstart=-1
(Maybe schools should add googling 101 to their curriculums.)