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

[Bailey Ford]

how are the drives formatted now? how were they validated?

- bailey


On May 3, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:

> 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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