jarobata Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 OSX is installed on a sata drive but the other 2 in my computer aren't getting detected. At first I thought it was because they were in raid so I deraided them but now they're still not detected. I formatted them in FAT32. Any ideas? Asrock 939sli32 AMD Opteron 165 Hitachi SATA 2 drive - OSX installed here 2xSeagate SATA 2 drives - aren't detected. eVGA 7600gt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djnapster Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 mac doesn't use FAT32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarobata Posted October 3, 2007 Author Share Posted October 3, 2007 I tried NTFS as well and I tried having them be unformatted. what format should I use? EDIT: by disabling the raid setting in the BIOS I can now see one of the 2 drives. Why the other drive isn't there I couldn't say. That problem is definitely over my head as it makes no sense to me. Anyone have a clue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarobata Posted October 3, 2007 Author Share Posted October 3, 2007 The other drive is getting an msftres flag whenever I format it in gparted which must be why OSX isn't seeing it. It keeps this flag whenever I format it in fat32 or ntfs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jarobata Posted October 4, 2007 Author Share Posted October 4, 2007 Windows can still detect it but OSX cannot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 mac doesn't use FAT32 But it can read/write on this filesystem... As for ntfs, it can read natively, and reported to write with the help of macfuse. @jarobata, I found this: parted: breaks Intel Mac partitions We can read: Also the partition that is created with parted has the flag 'msftres'that cannot be removed. This flag makes most OS X tools ignore the partition. This is probably caused by parted setting the type of the partition to MS Reserved. I haven't followed that bug report, and don't know if it applies to your version of parted. Have you tried formatting within windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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