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Originally Posted by bheller
Hey out there,
We have drives from a 1000 and 4200 that have now been replace (by *working* servers) and would like to re-purpose the drives. Disk Utility and fdisk in Mac OS X don't recognize the drives at all. Anyone have any knowledge about how these can be seen and re-formatted for use on Mac OS X?
Thanks,
Brian
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Disk Utility should see the drives so that you can reformat ("erase" in Drive Utility tab speak). Check the jumper settings (M/S/CS) for whatever config you have the drives placed into. I've taken many old snap drives and placed them into older OS X or 9 systems.
If you have a pc available, then running the manufacturer's drive utilities would be a good thing to do as mentioned above. I do that before spending any time converting the old drives for reuse. Might as well know if they check out before data is stored on them.
If this problem continues mention your jumper settings, drive info, and version of OS X so that help can be offered.