Internal Storage

[Dave Klee]

Hey Marc, just saw your post and had a few questions (if you haven’t fixed things yet):

1. Are either / both of those Maxtor drives “boot” drives that have the operating system installed?

2. Are the drives formatted together as a RAID? If so, what kind of RAID (RAID 1 or 0)? If so, is a RAID card involved in either computer (either Apple’s RAID card or otherwise)?

3. You’re connecting the drives internally, right? (As in using Apple’s built-in hard drive sleds inside the computer to plug the drives directly into the motherboard?)

There are some big(ish) internal differences between the earlier Intel Mac Pro machines and the most recent 2009 “Nehalem” Mac Pros. If those Maxtor drives are formatted as boot drives for the older computer, there’s a good chance they will not boot on the new one. However, there are a lot of different ways to make them work depending on your setup and what you’re hoping to accomplish.

Let me know if you’re still working on this, and good luck!

Dave

[Marc Bostrøm]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for responding…. I hope we can get to the bottom of this.

“1. Are either / both of those Maxtor drives “boot” drives that have the operating system installed? “
One disk is a clone of my system drive, WD-Velocirptor, which is installed on the new machine with 10.5.8 – running without problems. The WD is also a disk I moved from the old system.
The other is a data disk with different production elements.

Both disk are GUID Partition Table.
Maxtor 7V300F0 Media
Serial ATA 2

2. Are the drives formatted together as a RAID? If so, what kind of RAID (RAID 1 or 0)? If so, is a RAID card involved in either computer (either Apple’s RAID card or otherwise)?

No.

3.You’re connecting the drives internally, right? (As in using Apple’s built-in hard drive sleds inside the computer to plug the drives directly into the motherboard?)

Yes. slot 2+3 – Tried moving them around. No difference.
The sleds are longer on the new machine. Really irritating that Apple changed this.

My only thought are that the Maxtor disks are not compatible with the new generation of mac’s. But why?

I have connected the disks to the old machine and moved the data through the network. So my problem is not HI priority….But still, I am curious to know why?

Marc Bostrom
-| just another PRO FCP user |-

[Dave Klee]

Hey Marc, smart thinking on connecting to the network and moving data over. I was going to suggest that or Target Disk mode. Honestly, I’m stumped as to why they wouldn’t work. We’ve thrown some pretty random SATA disks in our new machines (never that exact model), and so far so good. I wonder if they’d work in an external enclosure over firewire or USB?

Anyway, sorry I’m not any help, but glad you got the data moved over. And, yeah, the fact that they changed sled lengths is pretty annoying. Meh. Not looking forward to migrating 35 machines next year… it could have been so easy…

Take care, and let me know if you figure out what’s up with those drives!

Dave