[DM-MUG] MacPro issues with internal PCI cards & enclosures

[Victoria L. Herring]

I have 2 eSATA cards in my MacPro [2007 vintage] and have been trying 
to use bay enclosures with them [IcyDock, WiebeTech].  I had one card 
and it wasn't working so just got another one and it doesn't work 
either = I have changed the eSATA cables and have tried all 4 ports 
[2 on each].  Running SN 10.6.7 with lots of Ram and space

I have downloaded another driver [Silicon Image is one of the card's 
manufacturers - but both show up in Get Info as recognized and with 
drivers installed]  just in case and will be installing that = but 
the problem also is when eSATA is used, using all 4 possible ports, 
no enclosure with drive is recognized at all -- [the drives were 
checked by a friend and are working and have data] - when I use the 
USB connection with the enclosures and drives the disks are seen but 
I get the pop up that they can't be read and do I want to initialize. 
Which I don't.

Any suggestions as to what can be done = I'm stumped - using 
different PCI cards, diff. enclosures, diff. cables [eSATA], 
different drives [but pre-validated] - but either they are not seen 
via eSATA or if by USB the drives are nto recognized.
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