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re-activate 5TB WD drives on 5,1 Mac?
Hi,
since these new large 5TB and over drives from WD only mount when you cold-start a 5,1 Mac I was wondering if anyone has found a tool or trick to retroactively mount such a drive after a warm restart? Doing this via the Disk untility doesn't work so maybe there's a trick without shutting down the mac, walking all the way to the machine room and then restart? Thanks Frank.
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Re: re-activate 5TB WD drives on 5,1 Mac?
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Internal or external drives?. Are these WD Blacks or another model? The 4 TB internal WD Blacks I have in my 5,1 mount just fine from either cold or warm boot. |
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Re: re-activate 5TB WD drives on 5,1 Mac?
Like I wrote it's for any drives bigger or equal to 5TB. They only mount inside a 5,1 Mac when you start the machine from being switched off. After a restart they won't show.
It's a known issue. Probably they need too much time to spin up before the boot process times out on them. I was wondering if someone has found a workaround other than shutting down the machine again after a restart to get the drives back Frank.
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Re: re-activate 5TB WD drives on 5,1 Mac?
Have you tried holding the Option key when booting?
You normally do this to choose a different boot drive. I’m wondering if the delay might allow the drive to spin up and mount. Worth a shot. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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How healthy is the power supply on your 5,1? Getting good airflow through the case? When I was researching drives for my 5,1 I looked at different makes and was surprised to find some so-called enterprise class drives from Seagate to have a slow spin-up time from rest like up to 20 seconds |
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Re: re-activate 5TB WD drives on 5,1 Mac?
Might work but shouldn't be needed. Elsewise you'd never see a drive that got started after the Mac was fully booted. We still don't know if these are internal or external drives which brings up a point - does it make a difference where the drives are located in the drive bays? IOW does one bay have priority over another? Maybe swap the drives around?
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On the WD site some people say it's firmware issue with WD but WD never releases FW updates for drives so you have to live with it. Not a big problem but quite an annoyance when you have to reboot a couple of times and your macs lives in a machine room on a different floor like mine. Just wondering if there's workaround or a little tool that can do this. EDIT: What's also weird is that if you had the drive mounted and then need to eject it (for whatever reason), you won't be able to re-mount it with Disk Utility. You'll have to fully shut down the machine and turn on again to get these drives back.
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And it's NOT odd you can't reactivate a drive with disk utility. It's normal you either have to reboot the computer (either a cold boot or warm boot works) or power down and repowerup the drive to get it recognized by the system. |
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I have a 8TB Red that does it and a 6TB in my sever both do it in two different machines running either Sierra or high sierra. My 4TB black does it in my machine and 2 other colleagues in the same building have the same issue also with 4TB blacks all with the exact same behaviour in slightly different generation 5,1 macs. also see here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7132585 A guy reporting the same thing with Hitachi drives. So doesn't seem to be a WD only thing. Very odd.
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That is weird. I do that all the time on my media server. For some reason, every now and then, I can’t write to one of my drives in this 4 bay JBOD SATA caddy. I just force eject the drive and then remount it in Disk Utility. Did you try the reboot holding down the Option key? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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