Expresscard/34 on Macbook Pro

Hi, I have a brand new 15 inch Macbook Pro 2.4 with 4 gig RAM. I want to run FW 800 devices through the Expresscard but can't get the MBP to see the drives attached to the card.

I have a Belkin FireWire 800 ExpressCard Model F5U514. The Belkin web site says that it is good for the Mac.

The system profiler sees the two FW800 slots and they are visible in Preferences within the networking page.

The only sign that it is in use when plugged-in however is a small icon on the grey top-line on the display next to the Time Machine icon.

There are three line of info nder this "card" icon
1. Unknown Vendor (greyed-out)
2. FireWire Controller (greyed-out)
3. Power off Card ( in bold black type )

Any suggestions gratefully recieved.

John

I'd get CalDigit over Belkin

[www.caldigit.com]

Michael Horton
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Thanks - I have looked at the caldigit site but can't see 2 x firwire 800 option. I am editing with some older FW800 drives without SATA interfaces.

John

John,

If you click, (copy & paste if needed), this will take you to our FireWireVR, 2 bay RAID:

[www.caldigit.com]

While we don't offer an ExpressCard 34 to FireWire, we do have a nice eSATA 2 bay enclosure that can connect through an ExpressCard 34, the product is called the S2VRDuo see it here:

[www.caldigit.com]