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Mac OS 9 Discussion => Hardware => Storage => Topic started by: sruchris on June 25, 2019, 08:15:56 AM

Title: OS 9 and SeriTek/1eSE2 Sata card trouble
Post by: sruchris on June 25, 2019, 08:15:56 AM

My G4 Quicksilver recognizes my SeriTek/1eSE2 card but when I connect a drive to it the drive doesn't mount. Using OS X, the drive mounts fine. It is a driver problem? I reflashed the firmware on the card and nothing changed.

Title: Re: OS 9 and SeriTek/1eSE2 Sata card trouble
Post by: macStuff on June 25, 2019, 08:57:55 AM

what version of firmware are u running on the card? (viewable in system profiler)
is the drive already hfs+ ?
what partition type? MBR? APM? GUID?

you may to format the drive with "os9 drivers" possibly;

if it was me i would try with a blank drive to format the drive ont he computer u are going to use it with; and see how it goes from there

Title: Re: OS 9 and SeriTek/1eSE2 Sata card trouble
Post by: Jakl on June 28, 2019, 01:08:35 PM

I have a 1eSe2 as well and the only time I have experienced a HD not being recognised is when I try to use a current SSD in os9 like a Samsung 860 etc. These cards are macos9 bootable off the shelf that is with an appropriate SSD or HD and formatting.

Title: Re: OS 9 and SeriTek/1eSE2 Sata card trouble
Post by: (S)ATAman on December 08, 2019, 01:54:27 PM

You will need the (generic) OS 9 mass storage (SCSI) driver being part of the disk, otherwise it won't show up.
There is indeed an option to format a drive with such a driver.

Alternatively you can use a software only SCSI driver as an extension.