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Help! Can’t Get the System to See the Drive
I posted this on the G-Raid forum and didn’t hear anything. I thought maybe someone here can give me a suggestion or two. Thanks.
I’ve got a Mac Pro 2 X 3 GHz Quad-Core running 10.4.11. We use the G-Speed 3000 fibre channel. Probably once a week, when the system has to be restarted for one reason or another, the computer comes back up and doesn’t recognize the drive. We fiddle with this and that, and usually can get the computer to recognize it. Right now, we’re unable to get it to recognize the drive and this has been five days now. So we’re dead in the water.
Any suggestions? And if yes, is there any way to make it recognize the drive every time we reboot? Is this just the nature of G-Raid or fibre channel, or is there something I can do so it always recognizes it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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6 Replies
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Your header files are probably corrupted. Run Disk Warrior, the #1 tool I reach for in instances like this.
Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
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Keith, Thanks so much. What’s a header file?
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There’s a GTech forum on the cow. It might be better to ask there before you start running disk warrior.
Some raid companies say it’s okay, some say it’s the bane of their existence.
https://forums.creativecow.net/forum/gtech
Jeremy
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He did, but I just checked and still no one has chimed in on his post there.
Winston A. Cely
Editor/Owner | Della St. Media, LLC“If God could do the tricks we can do, He’d be a happy Man.” – Peter O’Toole – “The Stuntman”
Mac Pro 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
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As I understand it, it’s the files that make up the directory of a disk drive.
Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro -
Kevin, We got G-Tech on the phone. He had us hook our internet connection to the Mac, then he had us grab another internet connector from our office (another ethernet connection) and hook it to the back of the drive. Then he walked us through a boatload of diagnostic things, had us change a few and told us the computer will always recognize the drive from now on! So I’m happy!
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