I installed a tango express PCIe card in my mac pro 2.66. The instructions said that the expansion slot utility would open when I started the computer. Nothing opened, and there is no expansion slot utility in the utilities folder. I'm using 10.4.8. Is this an obsolete utility for this version, or is it located somewhere else. The usb ports seem to work but the firewire ports don't work as I expected. (Only 1 port will work at a time and even one port won't work properly in conjunction with the built in ports. I'm using them with MOTU audio interfaces)
macpro 2.66, Mac OS X (10.4.8), Sonnet tango express PCIe card
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Expansion Slot Utility for Mac Pro now reports the correct PCIe slot configuration Improves network performance when connected to certain Ethernet switches that have Flow Control enabled Improves. Depending on which version of Mac OS X your computer is running, Expansion Slot Utility will open. If it does not open by itself, you must do so manually (Expansion Slot Utility is located in the /System/Library/CoreServices folder). Select the appropriate configuration (your Sonnet card is an x1.
Pc Expansion Slots
Mac mini with OS X Server will serve you well. It doesn’t have a hardware RAID card. It doesn’t have expansion slots. E-mail/groupware, or even running Mac OS X 10.6 Server’s new.