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How to set up slave drive inside a Mac Pro??
by alluraofarus - 5/20/08 5:30 PMI have what may be an odd question. I had a Seagate SATA hard drive inside of a Lacie firewire400/800/eSATA external enclosure that recently got zapped in a power surge and stopped powering up. It has a bunch of film files on it, but no operating system. I put it in one of the extra drive bays inside my Mac Pro, and I could hear the drive spinning when I turned the Mac Pro on (usually it's really quiet, but it now had the unmistakable LOUD spinning of the Seagate), so I can tell that the drive itself is not dead. BUT, the Mac Pro decided to try to boot from this drive instead of its own drive. So it wouldn't start up at all, seeing as there's no OS on the seagate drive. I know there are no master/slave settings in Mac Pros, so I'm not really sure how to go about setting up an internal drive w/o an OS on it, in a Mac. I just want to be able to copy the uncompressed video files from the seagate drive to the Mac Pro's hard drive, then remove the seagate drive.
How can I get the Mac Pro to boot from its own drive and read files off the other one?
Thanks for any help!! I've never done this on a Mac before, as you can tell...
That drive
by mrmacfixit
- 5/21/08 4:54 AM
In reply to: How to set up slave drive inside a Mac Pro?? by alluraofarus
You have done everything correctly so far.
To install a second, third or fourth drive into a MacPro, you just plug them in.
The system would normally scan the Start Up control panel and use the drive that is selected in there as the Boot volume. Sometimes it needs to be reminded.
However, you may have something else going on here. If the directory structure on that Seagate is corrupt enough to prevent the drive from being correctly identified, the system will hang at that point while it tries to figure out what is in that Bay.
Even though the drive spins up, it may never set itself up to be readable. That ticking sound you hear when you first power up a drive, that's the internal firmware moving the heads to the correct place and doing some other magic.
Do you get the Grey apple and the spinning cart wheel?
Power down the MacPro and then start it up holding down the Option key. Keep the key held down until you see the boot choices on the screen. When you do, choose your bootable drive and see what happens.
If you never get to see that option, then the power surge did a little more than destroying the LaCie power supply. BTW, those are replaceable for a small fee, direct from LaCie.
If it is not the power supply, then it is possible that the Interface board was also zapped, along with the drive.
Let us know how you get on with the Option choice method.
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(NT) What was the result?
by mrmacfixit - 6/5/08 6:08 AM
In reply to: That drive by mrmacfixit
The other method costs a little $,
by boya84 - 6/10/08 3:13 PM In reply to: That drive by mrmacfixit
but takes the drive out of the start up loop completely.
Get an external drive case and connect via USB or Firewire.
Connect the external drive to USB or firewire port. It should be OFF.
Start up the Mac. At a stable desktop, turn the external drive on.
If it is readable, it should mount to the desktop like any other device.
DO NOT do anything to the drive yet, but, Apple's disk utilities may be needed... and it it does not work, something like DiskWarrior or TechToolPro may be needed. BUT YOU MUST BE VERY CAREFUL OF THE OS version and the version of the utilities you use.
A power urge can do all sorts of damage. It is possible that the discs are spinning (what you are hearing) but the heads have no idea what to do. Software utilities may not get you through this.
Looks like it's destroyed...
by alluraofarus - 6/10/08 3:41 PM In reply to: The other method costs a little $, by boya84I never could get the Apple logo to appear w/ the slave drive set-up, so it looks like perhaps it's damaged more than I had hoped. I'll have to go the ultra-expensive route and get the file re-digitized off the master tape. I'm not sure if the external casing would even be worth it at this point. Bloody power surges...
P.S.
by alluraofarus - 6/10/08 3:43 PM In reply to: Looks like it's destroyed... by alluraofarusThank you for all your help! - I always get the best advice in these forums. I hope I can be as helpful as you've been here one of these days!
Have a great summer day!
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