On Nov 21, 2014, at 2:10 AM, Christopher Bischoff <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thinking back, I am fairly certain they were not RAID, yes, they showed up > separately. Not RAID then. > Sys Info on the USB attached, shows only my mouse dongle. Hmm. My drive dongle is different, but it will show up on the USB bus when plugged in by itself, IIRC. > Unfortunately, I have no other drives to test with, just the two, but they > both do the same good spin-up sound you would expect. > If it matters, the adapter will not spin up the drives until plugged into the > USB port. And at this point System Profiler still only shows the mouse on USB? I'm starting to think it's the adapter, not the drives. > If I launch DiskWarrior with the drives spinning, it freezes on "searching > for disks". Fire up console and watch the log while you plug the adapter in with the drives. If you start seeing lots of USB errors it might be the adapter. One USB trick: if you have a powered USB hub, try connecting the adapter through that. > The instruction manual says wait 30 seconds and the drive will show up as a > USB device, I gave it a good fifteen minutes, a restart... > Again, thanks for your help. > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Bruce Johnson > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Nov 20, 2014, at 1:41 AM, Christopher Bischoff <[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. > > > -- > 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. > <Screen Shot 2014-11-21 at 2.41.00 AM.png> -- 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.
