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Sonnet Update/Info on Tempo E4P/E4i/Pro SATA card drives not mounting in 10.7.4
Follow-up to problem reported last week by a Tempo Pro Expresscard user (E4P/E4i PCIe cards use same drivers) saying his eSATA drives connected to the card did not mount after updating to 10.7.4. Kevan G. sent a note Sonnet says the mounting problem w/2.2.8 drivers is only in 32-bit mode and will be fixed in v2.2.9 drivers to be released today:

"eSATA drives won't mount after updating to OS X 10.7.4
Sonnet has isolated the occurance of drives not mounting in 10.7.4, which occurs only in 32-bit mode with the Tempo SATA E4P, E4i, and Tempo SATA Pro ExpressCard/34. Users running in 64-bit mode will not experience any issue. (To boot in 64-bit, hold down the 6 and 4 keys when the Mac starts up.) Install driver 2.2.9 or greater to fix the 32-bit mode issue. This driver version will be posted by May 17th."

As of Noon (ET), the Tempo Pro drivers page doesn't have v2.2.9 update yet but it may be there by the time you read this.

  

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Another 2006 Mac Mini Core 2 Duo CPU/Lion (10.7.4) Upgrade Report
Added another report (2006 Mini w/Core Duo originally, now with a 2GHz Core 2 Duo CPU swap) to our page on (2006-08) Mac Mini Core 2 Duo CPU Upgrades. (Those early Intel-based Minis have a socketed CPU, but later mini models don't.)
This is the second reader to note OS X Lion 10.7.4 via software update didn't restore the supported mac models plist. (Some previous reports also updated the mini's firmware/bootrom from mini 1,1 to 2,1 for 3GB ram support vs 2GB.)

  
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