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| Do the Sonnet USB 2.0 or USB 3 cards support the Apple SuperDrive? | Apr-02-22 |
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759 |
| My bus-powered USB 3 drive or SSD will not reliably mount or transfer data. | Dec-14-19 |
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817 | 
| Storage connected to a USB 3 PCIe card (or Tango combo card) gives an macOS error message upon wake from sleep. | May-12-20 |
| To minimize power usage during sleep, power is removed from PCIe cards. Because of this power-saving specification, a USB 3 PCIe card is unable to maintain USB port power during sleep. In macOS, this result in a storage device disconnect upon wake from sleep. The storage device will automatically remount, but the system reports a disconnect message. Because macOS flushes all caches before sleeping, this disconnect should never result in any loss of data. |
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933 |
| What versions of macOS support Allegro USB 3 cards? | Apr-02-22 |
| All Sonnet Allegro (and Fusion Dual 2.5" SSD RAID) PCIe Cards use a macOS pre-installed driver.
These cards are compatible with macOS 10.10 in the MacPro 3,1; 4,1 & 5,1 and in Thunderbolt 2 Expansion chassis.
These cards are not compatible with macOS 10.11, due to a bug in the Apple driver.
These cards are compatible with macOS 10.12 (2)-10.14 in the MacPro 5,1 and in Thunderbolt 2 & 3 Expansion chassis.
These cards are compatible with macOS 10.15-macOS 12 in the 2019 Mac Pro and in Thunderbolt 2 & 3 Expansion chassis.
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Notes:
- These cards are not compatible with Thunderbolt 1 expansion chassis.
- macOS 10.12 erroneously reports a 5Gbps connection when connected at 10Gbps.
- The maximum Apple-supported OS for the Mac Pro 3,1 and 4,1 is OS X 10.11. Dosdude1 offers patchers to allow installation of newer versions of macOS. The Apple USB 3 driver in these patched newer versions will support the Allegro cards.
- Performance of the Allegro cards may be limited by the Mac Pro 5,1 PCIe 2.0 bandwidth.
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956 |
| What generations of Thunderbolt chassis do Sonnet Allegro PCIe cards support? | Apr-02-22 |
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971 |
| One or more of my ports has stopped working on my USB 3 card. | Aug-24-22 |
| All current and recent Sonnet USB 3 cards have resettable fuses to protect the ports from an overcurrent condition. To reset the fuses, you must remove power to the card by shutting down your machine. (Restarting is not sufficient.) After turning the computer back on, the ports should start working again. If the fuses continue to trip, then you may have a device that draws too much USB Bus power (more than 2 Amps). |
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1080 |
| What is the difference between USB 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2? | Apr-02-22 |
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1099 |
| What makes Sonnet USB 3.2 Cards more reliable than other USB 3 cards? | Apr-02-22 |
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1144 |
| Why does Sonnet use only PCIe 2 to connect the two controllers on these 4-port USB 3.2 Gen 2 cards? | Apr-18-21 |
| We connect each USB 3 controller with two lanes of PCIe 2. Each controller has 1000MB/s bandwidth which is enough bandwidth for the fastest devices you can connect, such as USB 3.1 Gen 2 NVMe SSDs. Because the read/write bandwidth is independent, on one controller you can be reading from one SSD at 1000MB/s, and writing to another at 1000MB/s, plus the same on the 2nd controller for an aggregate transfer rate of 4000MB/s. What makes this possible is that Sonnet uses the advanced ASMedia 3142 Controller that supports Multiple INs, which means that reads can commence on one port before a write has competed on the other port.
A PCIe 3 Bridge chip would cost you $50 more, but would give you incremental performance only if you needed to continually simultaneously read--or simultaneously write--to four USB 3.1 Gen 2 NVMe devices, a very unusual use case.
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1149 |
| How to configure Linux to use Allegro Pro USB card models USB3C-4PM-E and USB3-PRO-4P10-E | May-04-21 |
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1168 |
| If I put a usb 2.0 and 3.0 device on the same controller will the speeds for the 3.0 device drop to 2.0 like older split-port controllers? | Dec-07-21 |
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