Re: Force mount a HD in OS X?

On Sat, 16 May 2009 22:34:40 -0400, John Albert wrote
(in article <4JKPl.33385$ZP4.9575@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

RE:
"The ADPT 2930CU is no longer listed on Adaptec's site. In
fact, a search of
the knowledge base indicates that there are only three
mentions of the ADPT
2930CU, and as one of them is a notation about how it
doesn't work under OS
X, and dates to 2001, and talks about OS X 10.0.4, I suspect
that Adaptec
does not support OS X anymore. You card will either work or
not; if it works,
good. It wasn't supposed to. If it doesn't, it will never
work. There used to
be drivers for OS X versions up to 10.2 on Adaptec's site; I
know because I
downloaded such drivers for my 2940. Those drivers seem to
have been removed.
At least I can't find them"

Although Adaptec no longer supports OS X or this particular
card, I can state from experience that the 2930 will in fact
work under 10.3.9 and 10.4.11. The necessary drivers are
included as a part of the OS installation, but being several
years old, and a few versions of the OS "backward", they no
longer seem to be completely compatible.

I have an Apple-installed Adaptec 2930CU in a g4/1.25 MDD
dual-processor. However, the Mac won't "deep sleep" with the
card. I've tried playing with the drivers some, and the one
time I _was_ able to get the Mac to sleep, it wouldn't wake up.

But it _does_ work, at least on a g/4 Mac. It might be
necessary to delete one of the _other_ Adaptec drivers [in a
standard installation of 10.3.x or 10.4.x] in order to get
the card working. I found more information about it by googling.

I'm thinking the original poster should recheck his SCSI
termination setup. OS X seems to be very picky regarding
SCSI - I know of no equivalent to the old SCSI Probe control
panel, which could coax the Mac into a scan of the SCSI bus
to check for volumes. I'm guessing (and it's ONLY a guess)
that OS X wants any drives on the bus to be present at boot
time. I could be wrong about that - others please step in to
correct if necessary.

- John

Sounds good to me. I know that my totally unsupported 2040 _does_ work in
10.1 and 10.2 but goes tits-up in 10.3, so it's entirely possible that a 2930
would be able to handle 10.3 and 10.4... Adaptec simply doesn't care anymore.

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