Hard drive not showing

[sabrinavann]

Hi,

I had an HDD set up mirroring another HDD in a raid enclosure. I took them out because the cable to the raid broke and put them in my G5 tower. One of the HDDs do not show on my computer. I searched disk utility, system preferences, and finder. Also, I do not see it in terminal>diskutil list. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Sabrina

 

[lclev]

So one of the hard drives mounted just fine and one will not mount? You say the raid cable broke so I am wondering if the second drive was damaged as the cable was failing?

Since you are running a G5 that means finding a potential utility that can work with it a bit of a challenge. Assuming you are running 10.5 you could try this:

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2013061615582688

https://github.com/aburgh/Disk-Arbitrator

Lisa

 

[sabrinavann]

I downloaded the zip file but I do not see the disk arbitrator app. Someone posted this link https://github.com/aburgh/Disk-Arbitrator/wiki/Downloads to find the disk arbitrator app. It was moved to the release page. I get stuck there.

 

[lclev]

So did you download it from: https://github.com/aburgh/Disk-Arbitrator/releases

I am wading a bit out of my comfort zone as I have no background with G5s or OS X 10.5. I did download Disk Arbitrator on my Macbook Air. I clicked on it to unzip it and dragged the app into my applications folder. It worked fine but I don't have any disks not showing or any issues to use it on.

Maybe one of the others will chime in that are more familiar with G5s and I assume 10.5.

Lisa

 

[lclev]

Did not catch that - Thanks ferrarr. Any other suggestion?

Lisa