Qio E3
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Driver (10)
IDDownload TitleDownload LinkPost Date
419 Sony SxS Memory Card Driver for Windows
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Sep-01-2019
Operating System Requirements: Windows 10, Windows 11
Description: SxS driver for macOS supports Sonnet SF3 Series SxS PRO X Card Reader, SF3 Series SxS Pro Card Reader, SxS PRO X Thunderbolt 3 Single Slot Reader, Echo ExpressCard Thunderbolt Adapter, Qio, and Qio E3.

Note that under Windows, you must insert an card into every slot, and then plug in the Thunderbolt cable. If you don't plug in the cards first, then Windows won't allocate any resources for that card slot. We are working with Microsoft to address this issue.
 
629 Qio E3 System Installer and Uninstaller (OS X, macOS) 1.5.0
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Nov-29-2016
631 Sony SxS Memory Card Driver for macOS 10.14-macOS 12 3.1.0
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Jan-26-2022
Operating System Requirements: macOS 10.14-macOS 11
Description: SxS driver for macOS supports Sonnet SF3 Series SxS PRO X Card Reader, SF3 Series SxS Pro Card Reader, SxS PRO X Thunderbolt 3 Single Slot Reader, Echo ExpressCard Thunderbolt Adapter, Qio, and Qio E3.

Version 3.1.0 supports macOS 10.14 (Catalina)-macOS 12 (Monterey). This version is compatible with Intel and M1 Macs. Follow the procedures below for installing on M1 Macs.

For an M1 Mac:
Before the SxS device Driver can be installed on an M1 Mac, the security policy setting must be changed to Reduced Security using the following procedure.

1. On the M1 Mac, select Shut Down from the Apple menu.
2. Press and hold the power button until you see Loading startup options.
3. Click Options, then click Continue.
4. In macOS Recovery, if you are prompted for user selection, click Next and enter the password for an administrator account, if required.
5. In the Recovery Application, select Startup Security Utility from the Utilities menu.
6. Select the startup disk you want to use to set the security policy.
If the disk is encrypted with FileVault, click Unlock, enter the password, then click Unlock.
7. Click Security Policy.
8. Select Reduced Security, then select the Allow user management of kernel extensions from identified developers checkbox to allow installation of software that uses legacy kernel extensions and enter the password for an administrator account, if required.
9. Restart your Mac to apply the changes.
 
710 Sony SxS UDF Driver for macOS
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2018-02-01
725 USB 2.0 Over Thunderbolt Patch for Qio/Qio E3 1.1
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Jun-17-2013
727 XQD Adapter Device Drivers Installer for macOS 3.0.0
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Mar-28-2023
749 ExpressCard Hot Plug Driver (Windows) 1.1
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Dec-22-2016
1085 XQD Adapter Device Drivers Installer for Windows
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13-Jul-2018
1088 Sony SxS UDF Driver for Windows 2.4.0
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2018-02-01
1176 Sony SxS Memory Card Driver for macOS 10.12-10.13, version 3.0.0
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Sep-19-2019
 
Firmware (1)
Manual (4)
FAQ (6)
IDArticle TitlePost Date
646 How can I read UDF Formatted SxS cards?Aug-11-17
You need to download and install the Sony SxS UDF Driver, available here http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/cat-recmedia/resource.downloads.bbsccms-assets-mkt-recmedia-downloads-upgrades.shtml
 
680 Is the Qio E3 compatible with OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) and OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks)?Oct-31-14
Qio E3 is compatible with OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) and OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) using Qio CF4 software version 1.3.2 and later.
 
693 My computer kernel panics after updating OS X to 10.8.2. What can I do to fix it? (Qio/Qio CF4/Qio E3 issue)Nov-06-12
The OS X 10.8.2 update breaks compatibility with Qio, Qio CF4, and Qio E3 pro media readers, resulting in kernel panics on systems with Qio v1.1.6 and earlier software installed. By following the steps below, you may enable your system to work again, but the Qio will not operate after the procedure until you install Qio v1.1.8 or later software.

Process:





1. Cold-boot your computer holding the cmd and R keys together (this forces the computer to boot from the recovery partition)

2. Select the language

3. Open the Disk Utility application



  1. If your main operating system drive is locked (grayed out), select it and choose to “unlock” in the icon list at the top of the screen

  2. Note the name of the volume that holds your operating system - usually "Macintosh HD" – you will need this name later in these instructions


4. Quit Disk Utility

5. From the Utilities Menu, open the Terminal application.

6. Type the following commands, pressing the Enter key in between each command:

NOTE: In the following commands, <VOLNAME> is the name of the partition that your operating system resides on. This should have been obtained in step 3b. If your volume name has a space in it, such as "Macintosh HD", a “\” character must precede the space in the volume name (ie "Macintosh\ HD")

rm -r /Volumes/<VOLNAME>/System/Library/Extensions/STPCIFamily*

cp -rf /Volumes/<VOLNAME>/Library/Application\ Support/QIO/IOPCIFamily.kext /Volumes/<VOLNAME>/System/Library/Extensions

touch /Volumes/<VOLNAME>/System/Library/Extensions

7. Quit all applications and restart the computer.



 
713 My Qio Does Not Recognize My SD-to-SxS AdapterMay-07-13
730 I have a Retina MacBook Pro (or other Mac introduced in 2012), and my machine won't boot after installing Qio software.Dec-06-12
1135 Can I format an SxS card in UDF format in macOS?Jan-20-21