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HELP! – Raid won’t mount
I somehow lost the desktop icon of my video raid for FCPro.
I’m running Panther – I can see it in disk utility, and the mount button is activated but when I push it nothing happens.
Please help if you can – I’m new to Macs and I’m stumped.
Thanks,
Shawn
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4 Replies
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Shawn,
I’ve had similar problems since I upgraded to this G5, (although my RAID doesn’t even show up in Disk Utility) and the only answer I ever got was to download the latest SCSI drivers for my ATTO card. The RAID still “disappears” on boot-up occasionally, but rebooting usually finds it. I keep steel-toe boots handy just in case.
Not a perfect answer, but the only one I have. Personally, I think there’s still some “issues” with OSX in this area.
Best of luck.
Mark
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Without knowing what hardware, drivers, and software you are using anything I say is just a guess. SCSI cards need to run the correct drivers and software in order to work on various version of OS X (even then they are buggy – ATTO doesn’t seem real supportive, but at least they do something). Installing the correct ATTO drivers/firmware is critical. Also, its very important you follow ATTO’s installation instructions exactly (download the readme). https://www.attotech.com/software/index.html
Make sure you shutdown completely, then startup the RAID (let it spin up), then startup your Mac. Other hardware inside or attached to your Mac can occasionally interfere, so you might want to remove it while troubleshooting. 3rd party drivers for other products can also be a problem sometimes, so you try removing them, if any are installed. If you have an Adaptec card, replace it with and ATTO (or better yet get a SATA RAID – cheap, bigger and faster than an older Medea video RAID – plus no SCSI voodoo to worry about and no SCSI cards).
If you’re, still having problems after trying those things, contact Medea (or whomever makes your RAID) and ask them for help (most RAID companies are pretty helpful and easy to get ahold of).
Tony!
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thanks for your response-
Mine is a SATA raid – Seritek (they weren’t very helpful)
Apple has tried but now it seems to be corrupt data on one of the hard drives –
Do any of you know how to recover a volume that won’t mount?
Maybe DiskWarrior?Thanks for your help
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