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My system is a Power Mac G5 Quad, 6gb Ram, 1Tb internal hard drives, 1Tb external and several portable drives as needed.
The Drive array in question is a Fujitsu GR710 which contains 12 Seagate Cheeta ST336605FC drives which are around 35gb each.
OK, I have been given a Fibre Channel system, that at one time worked with OSX. I had to move it and now it doesn't show up on Disk Utility anymore. I can totally reformat it if possible, but I have to be able to see it first.
System Profiler sees the setup as:
Fibre Channel Domain 0:
Vendor: LSILogic
Product: LSI7202EP
Revision: Firmware 1.2.18.0, Fcode 1.00.37
Bus: PCI
Slot: SLOT-2
Initiator Identifier: 126
Node World Wide Name: 20:00:00:06:2B:12:C4:C4
Port World Wide Name: 10:00:00:06:2B:12:C4:C4
Address Identifier: 00:00:E8
Description: Port 0
Speed: Automatic (1 Gigabit)
Topology: Automatic (Arbitrated Loop)
Status: Link Established
Cable Type: Fiber Optic
SCSI Target Device @ 0:
Node World Wide Name: 20:00:00:E0:00:41:04:6D
Port World Wide Name: 21:00:00:E0:00:41:04:6D
Address Identifier: 00:00:EF
SCSI Target Identifier: 0
SCSI Peripheral Device Type: 0
Manufacturer: FUJITSU
Model: GR710
Revision: 0000
SCSI Logical Unit @ 0:
SCSI Logical Unit Number: 0
Manufacturer: FUJITSU
Model: GR710
Revision: 0000
Fiber Channel Preferences shows that a link is established.
Hardware RAID says that there is no hardware present.
I am using the Apple MA900A/G Fibre Channel Card to hook into the Drive array. It is hooked up with both ethernet and fiber optic cables.
I have used an IP scanner to search for the IP of the array and only find one that I can't identify at 224.0.0.251 another scan reports an IP of 0.0.0.0, neither worked when I tried to use Safari to access it.
I have tried several programs to try and get into this array and nothing sees it. All my experts tell me that I will need to use the Terminal program and use command lines to access the drives, but I can't find any information about what to do there. I've been told I need the driver for the array, naturally there isn't a driver for Mac to be had, but there are drivers for solaris, Unix, and windows. The last expert said to use the Unix driver, but I don't know where to put it in the system.
So I need help, Terminal commands to talk to the drive and revive it hopefully, or a system program that will do something similar. None of my diagnostic programs sees the array. The Card came with no software or instructions. Neither did the array. I haven't been able to find any hardware information about the drive from FuJitsu at all, it's too old for them to bother with anymore.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Doc

I have to go with William on this one - if it's shows up over fibre then it should be okay. Have you gotten the admin module to see the device over ether? I have a feeling that is you can get the software to see it you might be able to configure the device into something the computer could mount.
The Promise that way - you can configure the device entire from the web interface and you don't need fibre communication working for any of the configuration of what RAID you want and which disks are attached with what set etc. Once the RAIDs are configured into volumes then the Xserve sees they exist and you can use Disk Utility to format them. If you don't need fibre communication I don't see how SCSI drivers would matter over ethernet. But maybe the box is a strange beast - odder things have been made.
Barring that - can you attach the device to an older machine with the drivers and configure the device into raw volumes and then an HFS+ (or whatever you want) system? If you did that and then switched the box back to Xserve it should be able to pick up the configured volumes drivers or no.
My $.02,
=Tod

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