Part deux-
I pulled all three drives out and plugged them one by one into an
external drive enclosure. I hooked them up to my MacPro and used disk
utility to reformat each drive as MBR/MSDOS. Then I booted my MacPro
into Windows XP (bootcamp) and ran Sea Tools diagnostic utility. Each
drive passed all the tests. The MacPro didn't have any problems with
any of the drives in either Windows or Mac OS. And yet, when I put
them back into the G5 with the SeriTek controller card they do not
show up at all. Apple System Profiler shows the card in its PCI slot
and reports the proper firmware and driver installed. Where are the
drives?
On Aug 26, 10:53 am, dc wrote:
> I've tried everything I can think of. I have a PM G5 with 2 SATA
> drives in the upper and lower bays and 3 additional drives in a Sonnet
> Jive 5 bracket; the drives are cabled to a SATA PCI controller card
> with SIL3124 chip. I have also tried 2 different Seritek IV4 cards.
> The drives will not mount, they never show up in Finder, System
> Profiler of Disk Utility.
> I know the drives (Seagate 7200.10 500GB) are good. I have put each
> one into the lower drive bay where they load up just fine. They each
> passed the SMART tests, have been partitioned with 1 partition and are
> formatted HFS extended. I cloned the system onto one of them and it
> boots up normally as long as it is in the lower bay with it's direct
> connection to the motherboard. When I move the connection to the PCI
> controller card it doesn't show up.
> I know the cards are good. The Seritek cards have run before in this
> G5 and in a MDD G4. The cards show up in System Profiler, the firmware
> is updated and the drivers are installed.
> It's not a power issue. The drives get warm so I assume they're
> spinning. I even hooked one up to and external power supply to be sure
> it was getting enough power.
> The SeaTools utility only runs in Windows so it can't help me check
> the drives.
> Maybe there is something I can do through Open Firmware to mount the
> drives?
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