• Apple OS X

  RAID not reading drive

  Posted by Naveen Mallikarjuna on May 19, 2010 at 6:19 pm

  So, I thought I had a hardware failure in my array. I have a Mac Pro with 3 1TB Seagate drives in bays 2,3, and 4. My array disappeared from my OS. Open up the box, and the drive in bay 3 is kaput.

  Or was it?

  I hooked it up to an external dock and it fired up. So I swapped another drive into that bay and it seemed not to work.

  At least, it doesn’t show up in Disk Utility. DU seems to recognize a drive in bay 2 and 4, but not 3.

  Is this a hardware problem (which is what I’m assuming)? And if so, is this the forum for this issue? And if the answer to that is yes, then any suggestions on what I should do?

  Thanks in advance.

  Rainer Wirth replied 16 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Zane Barker

  May 20, 2010 at 5:46 am

  Sounds like the connections in the 3rd drive slot are bad which probably means you need a new logic board.

  Make an appointment at your local apple store.

  Hindsight is always 1080p
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  Rainer Wirth

  May 21, 2010 at 9:52 pm

  internal raids are not very reliable. They get too hot. Did you do a raid 5 raid or raid0. If you did A RAID 0 the data is gone. There is a software called techtool pro. It can localize your issue.

  I hope this helps.

  Rainer

  I think Zane could be right

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