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disappearing drive?
OK, i’ve been a cow lerker/member for about a year… i’ve posted twice in that amount of time, now two in one day!
here’s the deal:
i have an enclosure that has two SATA drives in it. when i begin my work day, the computer only sees one drive, it’s the drive on ‘channel one.’ so i check my DISK UTILITY and sure enough, there’s only the channel one drive to be seen. so i open SYSTEM PROFILER and my G5 sees the card (Sonnet X-Tempo) as well as the one drive that DISK UTILITY sees. so i check the enclosure and all lights are showing systems are a go. sooo…
…i shut down everything and reconnect the cables, double check the drives (they’re hot-swappable) and make sure everything is there and OK. then i start up the G5 and and only one drive is to be seen… this time it’s the drive on ‘channel two!?’ no i didn’t swap the drives or the cables and the external enclosure is all green. then the DISK UTILITY & SYSTEM PROFILER confirm all of what’s in this paragraph! so where’s the other drive?
also, i had a card in that PCI-X slot before getting the sonnet to my knowledge that shouldn’t be causing this problem.
i’m sure it’s a simple thing, but i couldn’t find anything similar in “search posts.” any ideas on what the deal is? i’d like to get my raid going!
hep’ me, hep’ me… i be hyp-mo-tyz’d!!!
thank you,
e3
e. eric johnson iii
er**@*********es.com
lill creates: founder/executive producer
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Did you try switching the cables? Run disk utility on the drive that appears, then also check in the enclosure make sure there are no bad connections, check the PCI-x card to make sure it has a good connection.
post back with the results…
Hope this helps…
Simon Carlson-Thies,
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simon, thank you for getting back to me…
finally a mystery that’s worked in my favor! suddenly, no cable changes or anything… as i was about to tear open the drive enclosure, the unseen drive appeared!?
for the record, i did all of what you had suggested prior to posting and even had granite digital send me another enclosure. there was a bad tray in the original enclosure, (they “cross-shipped” a new enclosure… good company!) but the new one too? not very likely.
the good thing is, the G5 sees everything now and i’ve set-up my RAID and life seems to be good!
thank you for the reply and the suggestions!
e3
e. eric johnson iii
eric@lillcreates.com
lill creates: founder/executive producer
Water Channel: producer/virtual set operator
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