Hard drive won't mount - but only on one Macbook Pro

Hi guys
So I have a brand new Macbook Pro 2.4 with retina and 8gb (like 2 days old). I'm on Mavericks. This question also concerns a Lacie Rugged USB3 1TB drive, it is bus power only.
My lacie won't mount on my new mac. An identical lacie will, as will a few older other lacie drives I use for archiving and occassional long term backups. I've checked this unmountable drive on 8 different macs (friends, work, mothers) everything from other imacs, to old G5 power pcs, and even my mums ancient ibook g4. They'll all mount it. My macbook pro wont.
* It's nothing to do with ports (all ports work and power various devices) and cables (different cables also do not work, and they work with other drives).
* It does not appear in disk utility
* It does not appear in the system profiler/report even though the ports show up no trouble
* the drive powers and spins up
* i've even just formatted the drive on another computer in extended journal and it still does not appear yet will still mount on another machine
I'm tearing my hair out. Help me! Does anyone have any idea's what the **** is up with this thing?
Thanks

Liam Maloney1
They'll all mount it. My macbook pro wont.
typical behavior of a SATA bridge dying
80% likelihood you have a dying SATA bridge card
see here for all info on same:
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All my drives used to work. At one point I had Chakra installed and had this issue after an update, however after thinking about it the problem may have actually started after the power flashed on and off here. I couldn't fix it so I installed Arch64 and KDE4 (the normal KDE from the Arch repos, not KDEMod) thinking maybe it was a Chakra specific issue. That fixed it at the time. It later happened on my Arch install. I reinstalled Arch again and the issue was gone. However the issue is back. Again I think it was after a power outage/flash but it was also after an update that included a kernel update. Best I can remember each time it's happened has been after a kernel update and power flash. So I can't say for sure which is the cause.
Oddly though if I boot from a live disc (in my case a Chakra Live DVD) I can mount and access all of the drives just fine.
Another oddity, is that in 'Disk Utility' (palimpsest) there is a 1.5TB RAID-5 array listed. The only thing I can figure is that that is what is making the individual drives busy.
Here's a screenshot from Disk Utility of the RAID-5 array:
http://theavataroftime.com/sites/defaul … enshot.png
After talking to a friend I remembered that quite a while back (over a year) we had messed around trying to setup a RAID array and dual boot WindowsXP. However, we never could get it working quite right, not even just in Linux without dual booting. I really can't say what all we did/tried, it's been too long. I realize that's not much help but...
Anyway I'm pretty certain I deleted everything RAID related at the time and turned it off. However I must be mistaken or I guess the array wouldn't be showing up.
I apologize, I really know nothing about RAID or RAID controllers. I do have an onboard RAID controller, but it's not a full fledged hardware RAID controller. It's onboard, but doesn't have it's on proccessor like good hardware RAID would. Or that's the way I understand it. Perhaps 'hybrid' is the proper term?
I checked in BIOS and my onboard RAID controller is off.
I take it that my attempts at setting up a RAID array before are still in the MBR (on that note I use GRUB and have never used LILO)? That's the only place I can think of that any leftover RAID configurations wouldn't have been wiped during reinstalling and reformatting the drives and partitions? I've reformatted my drives completely and changed the size of swap, /, and /home on several occasions since then, as well as formatting the media-server drives to ReiserFS (not sure what FS I was using when trying to setup RAID before. Perhaps FAT32 since I was trying to dual boot).
I clicked the stop array button in Disk utility, and then all the options except start array went away. Then I clicked start, and instead of my four media-server drives being listed at the side of Dolphin there was one 1.4TB drive. I rebooted and now it's back to the 4 500GB media-server drives.
I'm worried about losing a bunch of data, so I'm hesitant to start experimenting. How should I go about getting rid of the remnants of the RAID array safely?
Also here's a screenshot of MediaServer5 from Disk Utility. The other 500GB drives have the same info minus the names and labels of course:
http://theavataroftime.com/sites/defaul … enshot.png
*** I had forgotten about dmesg output. It's quite long so instead of copying it, here's a link to it:
http://theavataroftime.com/sites/defaul … /dmesg.txt
Thanks for advice on the matter.
Last edited by The Avatar of Time (2010-10-07 08:27:06)

Thanks for the reply.
Here is my output from the commands you suggested:
fuser -v -m /media/media-server/2
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/media/media-server/2:
root kernel mount /
theavataroftime 2518 fr.e. startkde
theavataroftime 2561 Frce. gpg-agent
theavataroftime 2575 .rce. dbus-launch
theavataroftime 2576 .rce. dbus-daemon
theavataroftime 2584 Fr.e. kdeinit4
theavataroftime 2585 Fr.e. klauncher
theavataroftime 2587 fr.e. kded4
theavataroftime 2592 .r.e. kglobalaccel
theavataroftime 2605 .r.e. kwrapper4
theavataroftime 2613 Fr.e. ksmserver
theavataroftime 2622 .r.e. kwin
theavataroftime 2656 fr.e. knotify4
theavataroftime 2658 fr.e. plasma-desktop
theavataroftime 2662 .rce. kuiserver
theavataroftime 2665 .r.e. akonadi_control
theavataroftime 2667 .r.e. akonadiserver
theavataroftime 2670 Fr.e. mysqld
theavataroftime 2714 .r.e. akonadi_contact
theavataroftime 2715 .r.e. akonadi_contact
theavataroftime 2716 .r.e. akonadi_ical_re
theavataroftime 2717 .r.e. akonadi_ical_re
theavataroftime 2718 .r.e. akonadi_maildir
theavataroftime 2719 .r.e. akonadi_maildis
theavataroftime 2720 .r.e. akonadi_nepomuk
theavataroftime 2721 .r.e. akonadi_vcard_r
theavataroftime 2739 .r.e. nepomukserver
theavataroftime 2741 .r.e. nepomukservices
theavataroftime 2747 .r.e. kaccess
theavataroftime 2759 fr.e. krunner
theavataroftime 2765 Fr.e. virtuoso-t
theavataroftime 2772 Fr.e. kio_http_cache_
theavataroftime 2774 .r.e. kmix
theavataroftime 2782 Fr.e. konsole
theavataroftime 2785 .r.e. kjots
theavataroftime 2790 .r.e. bash
theavataroftime 2807 .r.e. kalarm
theavataroftime 2809 fr.e. kopete
theavataroftime 2812 .r.e. polkit-kde-auth
theavataroftime 2815 .r.e. kwin
theavataroftime 2821 .r.e. dolphin
theavataroftime 2822 Fr.e. firefox
theavataroftime 2834 .r.e. kwalletd
theavataroftime 2839 .r.e. kwalletmanager
theavataroftime 2842 Frce. gconfd-2
theavataroftime 2850 .r.e. python
theavataroftime 2854 .rce. wicd-client
theavataroftime 2858 .r.e. klipper
theavataroftime 2861 .r.e. nepomukservices
theavataroftime 2862 .r.e. nepomukservices
theavataroftime 2865 .r.e. nepomukservices
theavataroftime 2867 .r.e. nepomukservices
theavataroftime 2868 .r.e. nepomukservices
theavataroftime 2869 .r.e. nepomukservices
theavataroftime 2870 .r.e. nepomukservices
theavataroftime 2871 .r.e. korgac
theavataroftime 2883 fr.e. kmozillahelper
theavataroftime 2979 .r.e. amarokapp
theavataroftime 2989 .r.e. plugin-containe
theavataroftime 3010 .r.e. npviewer.bin
theavataroftime 3048 Fr.e. kdeinit
theavataroftime 3051 Fr.e. dcopserver
theavataroftime 3053 Fr.e. klauncher
theavataroftime 3055 fr.e. kded
theavataroftime 3075 .r.e. ruby
theavataroftime 3081 fr.e. kio_file
theavataroftime 15311 .r.e. kio_http
theavataroftime 15312 .r.e. kio_http
theavataroftime 15313 .r.e. kio_http
theavataroftime 15314 .r.e. kio_http
theavataroftime 15315 .r.e. kio_http
theavataroftime 15316 .r.e. kio_http
fuser -v -m /dev/sdb1
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/sdb1: root kernel mount /media/media-server/1
I ran 'fsck.reiserfs --check' one /dev/sdf1, which is the /media/media-server/5 hard drive.
Here are the results:
fsck.reiserfs --check /dev/sdf1
reiserfsck 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com)
** If you are using the latest reiserfsprogs and it fails **
** please email bug reports to [email protected], **
** providing as much information as possible -- your **
** hardware, kernel, patches, settings, all reiserfsck **
** messages (including version), the reiserfsck logfile, **
** check the syslog file for any related information. **
** If you would like advice on using this program, support **
** is available for $25 at www.namesys.com/support.html. **
Will read-only check consistency of the filesystem on /dev/sdf1
Will put log info to 'stdout'
Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes if you do):Yes
reiserfsck --check started at Mon Sep 27 19:21:20 2010
Replaying journal: Done.
Reiserfs journal '/dev/sdf1' in blocks [18..8211]: 0 transactions replayed
Checking internal tree.. finished
Comparing bitmaps..finished
Checking Semantic tree:
finished
No corruptions found
There are on the filesystem:
Leaves 77863
Internal nodes 474
Directories 2856
Other files 18718
Data block pointers 77184421 (0 of them are zero)
Safe links 0
reiserfsck finished at Mon Sep 27 19:29:03 2010
Also I just used Partition Manager to check /media/media-server/5 as well.
Check and repair partition '/dev/sdf1' (465.76 GiB, reiser)
Job: Check file system on partition '/dev/sdf1'
Command: fsck.reiserfs --fix-fixable -q -y /dev/sdf1
reiserfsck 3.6.21 (2009 www.namesys.com)
** If you are using the latest reiserfsprogs and it fails **
** please email bug reports to [email protected], **
** providing as much information as possible -- your **
** hardware, kernel, patches, settings, all reiserfsck **
** messages (including version), the reiserfsck logfile, **
** check the syslog file for any related information. **
** If you would like advice on using this program, support **
** is available for $25 at www.namesys.com/support.html. **
Will check consistency of the filesystem on /dev/sdf1
and will fix what can be fixed without --rebuild-tree
Will put log info to 'stdout'
reiserfsck --fix-fixable started at Wed Oct 6 22:29:02 2010
Replaying journal: Replaying journal: Done.
Reiserfs journal '/dev/sdf1' in blocks [18..8211]: 0 transactions replayed
Checking internal tree..
***I'm cutting most of this out, it's insanely long: \|/-\|/-\|finished
Comparing bitmaps..Bad nodes were found, Semantic pass skipped
3 found corruptions can be fixed only when running with --rebuild-tree
reiserfsck finished at Wed Oct 6 22:36:43 2010
block 32772: The level of the node (48287) is not correct, (1) expected
the problem in the internal node occured (32772), whole subtree is skipped
block 262149: The level of the node (28423) is not correct, (1) expected
the problem in the internal node occured (262149), whole subtree is skipped
block 11326: The level of the node (63701) is not correct, (1) expected
the problem in the internal node occured (11326), whole subtree is skipped
vpf-10630: The on-disk and the correct bitmaps differs. Will be fixed later.
Check file system on partition '/dev/sdf1': Error
Check and repair partition '/dev/sdf1' (465.76 GiB, reiser): Error
Thanks for the advice.
Last edited by The Avatar of Time (2010-10-07 05:53:05)

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