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Who here is using eSATA with OS X? - M A V I C - 11-05-2010
I just ran into a really odd issue and I'm not sure why. I have an esata enclosure. I ejected it (Finder.) I put a new drive in and started it back up. The Disk Utility refuses to recognize the new drive as anything but the old drive. Still reports it as a 1.5TB drive (same model and everything) even though it's a 2TB drive.
Anyone else tried this? I wonder if it's because it's a Hac.
Re: Who here is using eSATA with OS X? - Filliam H. Muffman - 11-05-2010
10.6.4 issue? Have a image of 10.6.3 you can restore to check?
Re: Who here is using eSATA with OS X? - Racer X - 11-05-2010
I can't because my MBP has no functioning battery.....
Re: Who here is using eSATA with OS X? - M A V I C - 11-05-2010
I could try 10.6.2...
Racer, let me know when you want your battery back. I did a full power cycle on it to keep it healthy.
Re: Who here is using eSATA with OS X? - laarree - 11-05-2010
I use eSATA on my Mac Pro, which is running 10.5.8 and has a $50 eSATA card from OWC in it. I hot-swap drives frequently with a pair of Newertech Voyager Q docks connected to its two eSATA ports. This Mac recognizes the various drives I swap correctly, reporting their names and capacities as expected.
Re: Who here is using eSATA with OS X? - M A V I C - 11-05-2010
Interesting. Thanks.
Re: Who here is using eSATA with OS X? - olnacl - 11-05-2010
Possibility a limitation of the enclosure chip set? I know that OWC has < 2GB limitations on some of their older enclosures. You did reboot the computer?
Re: Who here is using eSATA with OS X? - Filliam H. Muffman - 11-05-2010
Has the computer gone to sleep with the first drive in the enclosure? Did you try putting it to sleep and waking with the second drive installed?
Re: Who here is using eSATA with OS X? - M A V I C - 11-05-2010
I don't use sleep on this machine. I may not have rebooted it since the drive was swapped. I'll try that later. For now I just plugged it in internally. For some reason I'm getting rather slow speeds CCC'ing over the network - 13MB/s
Re: Who here is using eSATA with OS X? - Silencio - 11-05-2010
I use a pretty similar setup to laarree. However, I had a fair amount of quirkiness in mounting and unmounting drives under Leopard with my Voyager Q and my NewerTech 6G card. Since upgrading to Snow Leopard, everything has worked flawlessly.