Hands-On Report--FirmTek v5.3.1 Firmware/Drivers for Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard"

2004–09November 10, 2007Macs Only!Reviews
New firmware and drivers v5.3.1 are available from FirmTek for the SeriTek/2SM2-E SATA Port Express Card and the SeriTek/2SE2 and SeriTek/2SE4 SATA adapters. They can be downloaded from this FirmTek Web page.

We downloaded and installed v5.3.1 on our FirmTek SATA Express Card, first the new driver and then the new firmware. All went well and our external SATA drive that we use for daily backups of large files such as our Windows XP and Vista virtual machines that run on Parallels Desktop for Mac. We have them excluded from Time Machine.

It is possible that the older v5.2.0 firmware/driver was causing the occasional kernel panic on wake from sleep in Leopard. So far, it hasn't happened since updating to v5.3.1. [Bill Fox via Michael Bean AMUG]

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