I've tried everything I can think of. I have a PM G5 with 2 SATA drives in the upper and lower bays and 3 additional drives in a Sonnet Jive 5 bracket; the drives are cabled to a SATA PCI controller card with SIL3124 chip. I have also tried 2 different Seritek IV4 cards. The drives will not mount, they never show up in Finder, System Profiler of Disk Utility. I know the drives (Seagate 7200.10 500GB) are good. I have put each one into the lower drive bay where they load up just fine. They each passed the SMART tests, have been partitioned with 1 partition and are formatted HFS extended. I cloned the system onto one of them and it boots up normally as long as it is in the lower bay with it's direct connection to the motherboard. When I move the connection to the PCI controller card it doesn't show up. I know the cards are good. The Seritek cards have run before in this G5 and in a MDD G4. The cards show up in System Profiler, the firmware is updated and the drivers are installed. It's not a power issue. The drives get warm so I assume they're spinning. I even hooked one up to and external power supply to be sure it was getting enough power. The SeaTools utility only runs in Windows so it can't help me check the drives. Maybe there is something I can do through Open Firmware to mount the drives?
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