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And in my case, support for the Broadcom BCM20702A0 chip.Ī quick search around the Internet reveals the exact kext to edit. #Bluetooth csr 4.0 dongle driver mac drivers#The solution then is to perhaps hack the kext (kernel extension) that handles the Bluetooth devices and include support for this dongle! And since the newer Macs all have Bluetooth 4.0 support, I’m sure that the drivers included with OS X Lion (10.7.4 as I’m writing this post) would have drivers that support it. However, there isn’t a driver that the OS can find for the Bluetooth dongle and therefore didn’t ‘load’ it up. What that means is that OS X does see the hardware. However, the USB dongle did register up in the USB Device Tree when I checked with the System Information. When I plugged in the dongle, Bluetooth support was nonexistent. Now, you’d probably guessed that the dongle didn’t work right out of the box, hence this article. Also, you can sometimes get pretty good deal on Amazon and get this dongle for as low as US$13.50.īut of course any Bluetooth 4.0 USB dongle would do as long as it is using the exact same chip as the IOGEAR’s dongle, which is Broadcom’s BCM20702A0 chip. So unless being a little ‘bling-bling’ is your thing, get the IOGEAR GBU521 Bluetooth 4.0 Micro Adapter which looks a little more discreet. Why? The eBay one has a bright blue LED that’s always lit and can be pretty annoying at night. Update: In retrospect now that I’ve been using the cheaper eBay dongle, you might want to consider getting the IOGEAR one. Unfortunately, it’s no longer listed as of my last check. ![]() And jumping ahead, it works, so you could go ahead and get the same too, especially if you decide to use the same kext file that I’ll post up in this article as a sample. If you’re wondering which Bluetooth 4.0 dongle I bought, this link will bring you to the item page on eBay and it cost me US$12.98 for the dongle. #Bluetooth csr 4.0 dongle driver mac pro#So in the end, I decided to pick one that apparently used a photo of the dongle (see below) plugged into a MacBook Pro and hoped that it would work. You’d be surprised that there isn’t many that officially states OS X support, especially so for a Bluetooth 4.0 dongle. #Bluetooth csr 4.0 dongle driver mac mac#So I searched for a Bluetooth dongle that has Mac support. It just went dead without any warning after about 1.5 years of me using my MBP. Why I even explored getting a Bluetooth 4.0 USB dongle was due to the untimely demise of the onboard Bluetooth 2.1 chip on my 2010 MacBook Pro. IOGEAR GBU521 Bluetooth 4.0 Micro Adapter #Bluetooth csr 4.0 dongle driver mac upgrade#If you find yourself wanting upgrade your Mac’s Bluetooth 2.1 support with a USB dongle that supports Bluetooth 4.0, here’s a tip for you to get it on the cheap with those Bluetooth 4.0 USB dongles you find posted on eBay. From what I’ve read and seen, all you need is to get a compatible Bluetooth 4.0 module like the IOGEAR GBU521 Bluetooth 4.0 Micro Adapter and then enable it using the Continuity Activation Tool available here. SOME MORE UPDATES: It seems that a lot of visits to this page comes from users who are looking to try and enable Handoff to work on older Macs. However, since my MacBook’s internal Bluetooth device is actually already dead, I cannot verify this at this point of writing. I’ve added some further tips at the bottom on how you can manually select which adapter to use. MORE UPDATE: There’s been reports that while this guide worked in getting the drivers loaded for the external Bluetooth adapter, some was still stuck with the Apple’s built-in adapter. ![]() ![]() UPDATE: Looks like with OS X Mountain Lion, you don’t have to do the following hack anymore! The Broadcom dongle I describe in this article is supported on OS X Mountain Lion by default! In fact, the new kext includes support specifically for the IOGEAR GBU521 Bluetooth 4.0 Micro Adapter ! Also, you might want to consider getting the IOGEAR one since the eBay one I got has a bright blue LED that’s always lit and can be pretty annoying at night. ![]()
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In the end I decided to break down my Raid5 array into single drives and jut let Drive Pool manage everything. I was able to add the raid 5 array and SSD and just speed moving files to the server which were then automatically and seamlessly placed on the Array, then I was able to add in a few random drives I had spare too. Of course parity on disk isn't a backup i'm aware of that and have other contingency too. Yes I love this software, its great I can select what is redundant and what is not, like you say anything easily replaceable doesn't need redundancy. Add to pool - and in the background it rebalances files onto that disk, etc. Simple as click remove disk from pool (it moves all the files off) when finished put in new disk. Just wanted to replace the drive before it died, etc. Could of prob gone with 3 or 4TB disk - but the points would only cover cost of the 2TB And not like I don't have plenty of space available anyway. I had just recently swapped out a 750GB really old disk that was starting to show smart issues with a 2TB nas red drive that picked up with some reward points I had at work, etc. As you need more space just swap out the older slower smaller disks with faster bigger disks, etc. You can have a 1TB drive in your pool along with a 6TB drive, etc. Best of all disks can be of any size, make, model, speed, etc. It can remain there and you can access that data directly, and then use the other space on the disk as part of your pool space, etc. Without having to wipe it or even remove that data. #FANCYCACHE TRIAL RESET SKIN#Lots of different ways to skin whatever cat your looking to skin.Īlso what is slick is you can add a ntfs disk directly into the pool even if currently has data on it. If you want parity you could also use something like flexraid and or snapraid along with it, etc. With the cloud option you can even put your cloud storage into the pool, etc. Tied with their scanner - it can even auto evacuate files off a drive in the pool that is showing problems. If you want just let it store all your files on multiple disks in your pool if you want that "raid" warm feeling for your data. #FANCYCACHE TRIAL RESET SOFTWARE#It really is very robust software that will let you do lots stuff. Not sure why you can not just add a raid array into the pool? Have not actually tried that but should be possible since the OS just sees that array as a disk. #FANCYCACHE TRIAL RESET TV#Do you really need parity for the rip of Gilligan Island TV showīut if you want to present a hardware raid to the pool. It is critical - raid 5 is not a backup, nor is just multiple copies on different disks in the same system or location even, etc.Īlong with actual backup. My webhost, glacier (amazon long term storage) and also crashplan. And in the cloud with multiple locations. ![]() It is also actually BACKED UP, on other media in the home (mdisc) and remote - son's house. Note the home video is critical, so while I do have it on multiple disks in the pool. ![]() The home video for example is on all 3 disks in the pool. The more important stuff in a media library I just have it on more than 1 disk in the pool. I really don't see the point of raid 5 for storage of my media. To be honest drive pool blows away anything MS has in their OS for creating a pool. ![]() But I am worried by the crude website it might not be up to much and I don't want to end up corrupting my data!Īny input appreciated, especially if you have experience doing this. ![]() Has anyone used any third party software to achieve this ? I found this. Is it possible to use storage spaces purely to setup a write cache ? so I give SS my RAID 5 array, and my spare SSD Array, and have it write cache but do nothing else ? I originally planned to use window storage spaces and present all of the disks to the OS to do this, however my Raid controllers will present my disks directly to the OS, but annoyingly one the big one storage spaces wont see the disks. Its mostly the raid 5 I wan tot speed up write to. I want to use the speed of the SSD's when data is being moved to the file server, but I want it to store it on the relevant array. It has RAID1 SSD for the OS and VM's and a spare RAID1 SSD array (120gb) #FANCYCACHE TRIAL RESET WINDOWS#I have a Windows 2016 file server in my house, I have a large 8 Disk raid 5 array and a smaller 4 Disk RAID 0+1 Array. ![]() |
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