Powermac g4 not seeing hard drive?

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Powermac g4 not seeing hard drive?

Hi guys,

So I just recently got a Powermac G4 Quicksilver that had 10.3.9 on its hard drive and inside three other hard drives, two of which were hooked up to a sonnet tempo ultra ata 66 controller card. I installed 10.5.8 through a nifty hack I found online onto one of the other drives. The problem is that 10.5.8 isn't recognizing the controller card because when I run it, two of my hard drives are missing whereas previously on 10.3.9 they showed up. Is there a driver missing or something? If so where could I find it? Or is it something else?

Thanks in advance,

David

PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), Dual 800 MHz, 1.5 GB Ram

Posted on Oct 5, 2014 6:12 PM

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Answer 1

BDAqua

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Oct 6, 2014 12:21 PM in response to David 14

Hi, likely there are no drivers for later versions of OSX, quite an old card...

http://www.barefeats.com/hard21.html

http://www.sonnettech.com/support/kb/kb.php?cat=367&expand=_a3_b437_a1_a2_b52_b3 40&action=b173

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David 14 Author

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Oct 6, 2014 12:32 PM in response to BDAqua

It confuses me though why OS X 10.3.9 works with it and 10.5 doesn't though... What changed?

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K Shaffer

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Oct 6, 2014 12:43 PM in response to David 14

What has changed...

Drivers to support more recent hardware development,

in the day, that left an increasingly obsolete OS X behind.

Tiger OS X 10.4.11, the entire run of a whole OS X prior

to the release of a then newer Leopard 10.5.

Support for older hardware and peripherals fazed out.

{perhaps you may find Tiger more compatible?}

Change is the only universal constant... 😐

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BDAqua

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Oct 6, 2014 12:53 PM in response to David 14

Every version of OSX breaks many things, especially low level drivers. 😟

Just to be sure though...

Open Terminal in Applications>Utilities, paste this in & hit Return, do they show there?

diskutil list

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David 14 Author

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Oct 6, 2014 12:54 PM in response to BDAqua

they didn't show in disk utility

how would they show in that list?

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K Shaffer

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Oct 6, 2014 1:52 PM in response to David 14

In the Terminal utility, you get to see the underpinnings beneath the GUI...

This is an access to that which is also referred to as the "Command Line."

Hopefully you will be cautiously curious and learn more about how the OS X

works, since all the tools are built into the computer to write applications, too.

Good luck & happy computing! 🙂

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BDAqua

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Oct 6, 2014 3:10 PM in response to David 14

Something like this...

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *55.9 Gi disk0

1: EFI 200.0 Mi disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Leopard 44.9 Gi disk0s2

3: Apple_HFS Snow Leopard 10.6 Gi disk0s3

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_partition_scheme *74.5 Gi disk1

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David 14 Author

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Oct 6, 2014 3:34 PM in response to BDAqua

I fixed it using my noggin. I simply shut down the computer, opened it up, disconnected the idea cable from the disk drive, plugged it into the third hard drive and it showed up first time. Thanks for all the help guys!

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David 14 Author

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Oct 6, 2014 3:42 PM in response to David 14

*IDE Not "idea"

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BDAqua

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Oct 6, 2014 6:48 PM in response to David 14

Great to hear, good work! 🙂

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