Issues with partitioned drive

[David Roth weiss]

Mark,

Having written a tutorial on the subject, I’ve tested just about every possible configuration there is with multiple partitions, and none of my external drives have gone offline. I don’t have any GTech drives however. I’d recommend you contact GTech directly, who I believe are now a division of Hitachi.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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[Mark Dobson]

Thank’s David,

Because all my other drives are showing up I’m confident I’ve done things in a correct manner. So yes I will contact a GTech rep here in the UK.

Dang

[Rick Lang]

[Mark Dobson] “However I have a problem in that my 2 external GTech drives are not appearing on the desktop, or in the finder and are also not showing up in Disk utilities.”

May not be helpful, but have you checked the boxes to reveal external drives in Finder Preference/General and /Sidebar? Have you tried using Force Quit to restart the Finder? I once had a partition not show, but restarting Finder resolved it.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[Mark Dobson]

Hi Rick

Thanks for that advice.

No the drives are not showing up anywhere.

I’ll try your quit finder tip a go.

I’m in discussion with a technical advisor for GTech and he suggested that I turn off and disconnect the eSata cables and then restart the GTech drives as they do not have an internal reset facility?

This sounded plausible as when one upgrades the software on the Matrox MXO2 Mini that’s what you have to do.

But unfortunately it did not work.

I’ll speak to the technician again tomorrow.

I’m sure it will get sorted.

Mark Dobson
Producer and Director
Alembic TV
http://www.alembic.tv

[Rick Lang]

To reset the external drives you should also remove their power after you turn the drives off; with no power connected, turn on the drives and wait a few seconds and turn them off again. Then you could do the same thing for your Mac: shutdown, remove all external drives, unplug the power, turn on the Mac by holding down the power button for at least five seconds, plug the power cord back into the Mac, reconnect the external drives and power on the Mac normally.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[David Roth weiss]

Mark,

It just occurred to me, if you have an eSATA controller installed in your computer, and you have not installed the latest drivers, that will create an issue for many attached external drives, even if they are not connected via eSATA. So, you might need to remove the controller or install the new drivers, if they exist at this point (i.e. for Lion).

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

Don’t miss my new tutorial: Prepare for a seamless transition to FCP X and OS X Lion
https://library.creativecow.net/weiss_roth_david/FCP-10-MAC-Lion/1

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.

[Mark Dobson]

I’ve done all i can do for today.

I’ve disconnected power – leads etc etc from the GTech Drive – but no joy – thanks Rick

I’m going to investigate the esata card driver tomorrow – thanks David ( i think that is where the problem lies ) I could try connecting via firewire but my mac only has 400 fw ports and GTechs are fw 800.

But here in southern england it’s time to turn off the computer.

Mark Dobson
Producer and Director
Alembic TV
http://www.alembic.tv

[Mark Dobson]

So thanks to David Roth Weiss’s suggestion I’ve got my esata connected Gtech drives working again on my new partitioned Lion drive.

It was the driver for my Startech ESATA PCI card which was causing the problem.

After a lot of trawling I eventually downloaded a Sonnet Esata driver update and everything is just as it should be.

So thank’s David and others with their suggestions

mark

Mark Dobson
Producer and Director
Alembic TV
http://www.alembic.tv

[David Roth weiss]

[Mark Dobson] “So thanks to David Roth Weiss’s suggestion I’ve got my esata connected Gtech drives working again on my new partitioned Lion drive.”

You’re very welcome Mark. It’s always good to hear back when a solution works. I just wish I’d solved the problem with one post and not two, but there’s always room for improvement.

All the best,
David

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

Don’t miss my new tutorial: Prepare for a seamless transition to FCP X and OS X Lion
https://library.creativecow.net/weiss_roth_david/FCP-10-MAC-Lion/1

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Business & Marketing and Apple Final Cut Pro forums.

[Mark Dobson]

Hi David,

Problem solving is partially about elimination of causal factors.

I hadn’t even thought the eSata card could be causing the issue. And neither had Apple support or Gtech support!

This all good practice for when I get a new MacPro (if it’s ever upgraded in it’s present form)

Maybe you could help me out with another query relating to setting up this partition drive.

Although I did not transfer applications to my new drive I’ve got a dock full of my apps from my primary
hard drive.

I was surprised to be able to run applications from my primary drive on this new one.

Many of these do not work, Final Cut Studio for example, which is prompting me to reinstall it.

I’m not going to do this as it defeats the whole purpose of the exercise which is to run FCP X on it’s own.

So what I have done is to remove my primary hard drive from the MacPro and I am now going through a fresh install of FCP X, Compressor and Motion. I’ll reinstall other programmes further on down the line.

So my question is how do I keep my new Lion / FCP X drive discreet from the rest of the drives on my MacPro?

Do I ‘eject’ the original boot up drive very time I open up the computer?

Or does it really not matter.

thanks

Mark Dobson
Producer and Director
Alembic TV
http://www.alembic.tv