On Nov 20, 2014, at 1:41 AM, Christopher Bischoff <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
By terminators I was referring to those 2mm grey things with two holes used on that four pin doo-hicky by the drive connections, from what I remember they changed the drive configuration. Shoot, jumper is the word I wanted. Again, it has been several years, but one of the drives was pinned out, and would not spin up until the jumper was removed. There are two settings enabled by those jumpers Spread Spectrum Clocking <http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1291/~/a-description-of-spread-spectrum-clocking-for-wd-sata-drives> and OPT1, which is reduced power spinup. That would explain how one wouldn’t spin up until it was removed. This may answer Wil's question, one pinned, one not. Possibly they were RAID, I honestly don't remember, do remember they had to be configured this way to work in the G5, installed them both. Both Barracuda 7200s, 160Gb and 200Gb. No chuKA noises, just a smooth warm up to a nice hum. This is the adapter I have, which lights up sowing all connections are good. I think. If they were in a raid configuration, they’ll both need to be attached to see the RAID, I think, but they should show up in disk utility then, even if they‘re not mountable. They’d at least pop up as ‘this drive is unreadable on this mac do you want to format it? ‘, I think. Do you remember if they showed up separately on the desktop on the G5? What does System Information show for the USB bus with the adapter connected and the drives on? Have you tested the adapter with a known-good SATA drive? -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
