Second hard drive missing thread error

Hello, I've got a macbook pro with 10.8.5 running. I have had a second 1Gb hard drive installed in the optical bay and it's been running for a long time with no issue. I booted up today and noticed the drive would not show up in finder. I ran disk utilities and it said there was a sibling link error and it suggested I repair the disk using disk utility. I ran disk repair and a new error popped up during catalog file check: there are 5 missing thread record (id = xxxx) errors and two "Incorrect number of thread record errors". Then it says the volume could not be verified completely and ultimately ends with Error: Disk Utility can't repair this disk...disk, and restore your backed-up files. I noticed the volume name changed to disk1s2 and I can't mount it. Now I'm stuck. I looked at recommendations for more elaborate disk repair programs that can be purchased but I see so many negative recommendations on all of them I'm not compelled to purchase. I definitely need to recover the data on the drive so I am pretty disappointed at what disk utility seemed to do to the drive (it appears to me to be worse since the volume name is changed (before I ran disk utilities when I had the sibling error I saw that the volume name was correct) and I can't do anything with it.) I'm stuck and could use some good advice. This is not a boot drive just a data drive.
Also if anyone could say what this sibling error was and what the thread errors actually are that would be a bonus (I'm an old timer hardware engineer and just want to know )

Normally, those errors are WRT the disk's directory. You need something stronger, such as DiskWarrior, TechTools Pro, or Drive Genius. All of are reliable and should do the job. Disk Utility has many shortcomings and repairing disk directory errors is one of its biggest.
iMac refurb (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), SL & ML, G4 450 MP w/Leopard, 9.2.2

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I have a MacBook Pro and an 1TB WD my passport for mac. I bought a second hard drive to act as back up and when I went to do this the original passport won't mount. It is showing in disc utility but it will not repair. I am told the mac cannot repair it and I need to back up the files and then restore the hard drive. But I can't open the hard drive to move the files onto the new one!
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disk0s2: I/O error.
disk0s2: I/O error.
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How to tell if second hard drive is going bad

Back in November added second hard drive to my G4 and installed Leopard on it. In last month incredible amount of app crashes, hangs, "force quit," etc. and the occasional kernel panic.
Did an erase and install and now seems like more of the same.
When I run old 10.3 on the original hard drive, life is just fine. To that end, I'm beginning to suspect the hardware. However, when I put the original Apple Hardware Test CD in and tried to use it (never done that before), it said it wouldn't run on this machine.
Is there a Plan B? Is there something wrong with the CD?
Thanks in advance for the help.
j

SMART - look at the bottom of the screen in DU when you click on the drive.
Lepard may be uncovering faulty or marginal memory. Each OS upgrade has put memory to use more so than previously.
Memtest is your best bet there. Or Rember which people like for GUI.
I tended in the past to wipe a drive with zeroes.
If you aren't using Disk Warrior (or TTPro) then you really don't know if your drive has directory or file errors, sadly, 3rd party is pretty much a given and must.
Intech Speedtools is another. Can do a thorough SMART test (45 minutes), test media, scan and reassign bad blocks, and stress a drive.
Disk Warrior manual hardware test will tell you one thing that helps: whether a drive has used spare blocks and how many left, meaning it might be time to zero a drive. Drives tend to fail early if they will, sometimes off the assembly line. Or down the road.
It would be nice if we could run Memtest from Apple Hardware Test. AHT does spot real obvious problems with memory, but sometimes iTunes seems to do a better job.

How do I access new second hard drive?

Hi! I am newbie, I am sorry if this a dumb question...
How do I access my second hard drive?
This is what I have:
SparcStation5 170Mhz, 192MB memory.2HDD (one 4.3GB w/ OS, second Hdd 4.3GB)
I had my sparc working with Solaris 8 just perfect!
I added the second hard drive, no problems, I formatted the HDD from withing Solaris OS, (I can probe-scsi from openBoot promt and it showes OK), everything is OK so far, I can see the send hard drive using format, I can partition it and create slices on it, everything seems to be OK, I have no problems making partitions and everything on that Hdd. But when I try 'ls', I can't see anything on that disk, any suggestions? I tried several ways from my manual/book, including mount and it reads 'no acces point on mount' or somthing like that.
this is what I see from format command:
disk 0. (seegate 4.3GB.....) this is my new hard drive (already formated and partioned, I created a new partition /usr with 3.75GB on partition 6. Partition 3 is used by the hdd with a totoal of 4GB . this shows as c0t1d0
disk 1. (SUN4.2GB) this is the hard drive with the OS Solaris 8. this is c0t3d0
Am I missing something?
Thanks!
Murillo

hi there ...
read below--
Find out the address of the drive
STOP+A
At the OK prompt, type probe-scsi. This will list all scsi devices on the system. Find the new drive.
Type boot -r so the OS will see the new drive.
Login as root and type format. Pick the new drive. The drives are listed as c(controller #)t(scsi id or target #)d(disk #). Label drive is required (it will tell you if the drive is not labeled).
Next, type partition. Partition the drive as required (always leave partition 2 as the whole drive as it is informational to the OS
Type print to list the current partitions. When you are done making changes type label
To return to the OS prompt, type quit twice
newfs /dev/dsk/DRIVE-ADDRESS
(ie c0t1d0s0) (controller 0 target(ID) 1 disk 0 slice(partition) 0).
mkdir directory, where directory is the directory you want to mount the drive on
(ie, /disk2)
mount /dev/dsk/DRIVE-ADDRESS directory
Add the new drive to your /etc/vfstab file.
(ie. /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s0 /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0 /disk2 ufs 1 yes - )

How do I partition my second Hard Drive

I am wondering why my second hard drive that apple installed on my mac wont partition for use with windows.
I tried to partition the drive via Boot Camp Assistant and when I tell it to partition it sits there for hours saying its partitioning. I tried restarting and trying again. It just wont complete.
My next step was opening the disc utility and selecting the second hard drive and clicking partition. It still doesn't work. I get an error message saying
"Partition failed with the error: Filesystem resize support required, such as HFS+ with journaling enabled"
I took screen captures of the steps I took that are in these links
http://gallery.me.com/calaberator/100029/Picture-205/web.jpg
http://gallery.me.com/calaberator/100029/Picture-206/web.jpg
http://gallery.me.com/calaberator/100029/Picture-207.jpg?derivative=medium&sourc e=web.jpg&type=medium&ver=12205459000001
It won't let me partition the disc. Does anyone have any recomendations?

Okay!
Disk Utility is... weird ever since Leopard, and BootCamp Assistant... fine for iMac or MacBook but not as flexible as I like.
Sometimes you just have to restart Disk Utility, or at worst, restart. Sometimes after resizing partitions and such, you really do want to restart before using those partitions.
I've seen Disk Utility "lose communication" with a drive.
I don't like to use the last part of a drive.... for anything, it is the slowest inner tracks and less than half the performance.
If you don't have anything on it that you need and that is backed up, I would just go to Partition tab and start over.
Personally, I like to strip a drive of all partition tables and format it in Windows. Or set it as Master Boot Record, then create a couple FAT partitions which works for Vista installs but not for XP.
Vista needs at least 40GB and you want to leave room to add applications, restore points, and room for updates (a 500MB 'update' can unpack, write temp files, and use much more, as much as 7-10GB for Vista SP1 update, which you get back most of afterwards. And 2-3x the amount of RAM for pagefile and hibernation.
Try again, restart if necessary, and it really should.
When a drive is first formatted, it writes partition tables and has to test the first and last 100 sectors plus where the GPT and EFI partitions go, which shouldn't take more than 2 minutes. More than that, just kill it, quit Disk Utility and try again.
If you have never used the drive, consider doing a full zero-all from security options to erase it after you have it partitioned.

Encrypt a second hard drive with ecryptfs

Hey folks,
I already encrypted my home directory as describend in the wiki here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EC … 8simple.29
mount says
/home/.ecryptfs/michael/.Private on /home/michael type ecryptfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,ecryptfs_fnek_sig=11111111111111111111,ecryptfs_sig=aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16,ecryptfs_unlink_sigs)
MY GOAL IS: Encrypt a Folder "encrypted" on a second hard drive in my pc, that gets autodecrypted when i login with my login password on gdm. the partition on that hard drive is sdb1, just for future references
Long story short: I tried several ways to adapt the encryption of the home folder to the folder on sdb1. the wiki did not help me much with this (encryption was working but nothing like automaticaly decrypt on logon or smthg(.
then i found the ecryptfs readme file: http://ecryptfs.sourceforge.net/README and read the PAM MODULE section.
it points that i had to add my passphrase for the encrypted folder in sdb1 to the session keyring using ecryptfs-manager.
Then, log in as the regular
user. Manually add your passphrase to the user session keyring via the
ecryptfs-manager utility.
i also added the line in my fstab:
/run/media/michael/Seagate/.encrypted /run/media/michael/Seagate/encrypted ecryptfs user,noauto,rw,relatime,ecryptfs_sig=bbbbbbbbbbbbbbb,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16,ecryptfs_unlink_sigs
after that, i could easily mount the folder through nautilus or with the `mount -i /run/media/michael/Seagate/encrypted` command.
the bad thing is: after loging off and on again, the mount again didnt work until i added the passphrase for the sdb1 folder again to the ecryptfs-manager.
Before adding the passphrase:
michael@tyron ~ (@ ✹master)$ keyctl show
Session Keyring
18821945 --alswrv 1000 -1 keyring: _uid_ses.1000
980991344 --alswrv 1000 -1 \_ keyring: _uid.1000
809041303 --alswrv 1000 100 \_ user: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
1033993612 --alswrv 1000 100 \_ user: ?????????????
after adding the passphrase
michael@tyron ~ (@ ✹master)$ keyctl show
Session Keyring
18821945 --alswrv 1000 -1 keyring: _uid_ses.1000
980991344 --alswrv 1000 -1 \_ keyring: _uid.1000
809041303 --alswrv 1000 100 \_ user: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
1033993612 --alswrv 1000 100 \_ user: ???????????????
367799740 --alswrv 1000 100 \_ user: bbbbbbbbbbbbbb
Where aaaaa.. is the key for my home dir and bbbbb... the key for the folder on sdb1 These keys are identical to the keys listed in fstab/mount.
(Phrases are both the same but the key differs, i think because of a salt or something)
The ecryptfs readmy also pointed, that i have to insert
auth required pam_ecryptfs etc.
in pam.d/gdm-password, login and system-auth (like its documented in the arch wiki), what i already did for encrypting my home folder. but i double checked it.
now i'm lost - i thought with these pam modules, the decryption works automaticaly on system logon. it doesnt, but gives me a strange error message until i reenter my passphrase for sdb1 to the ecryptfs-manager
Can you tell me how to manage my problem or where my mistake is?
Tank you for reading this wall of text i really hope for any answers!
Kind regards,
--michael

A couple of questions which I wonder about:
1. What is your fstab line for sdb1?
2. Did you try to let PAM automount it on login via ~/.bash_profile as described in the readme? I am not sure it works, if you login and only mount manually afterwards.
3. Which PAM mount options did you use? The ones from the wiki link directly or which one from this section? 6b?

Second Hard Drive & Insufficient Privileges

Hey everybody...
I installed a second hard drive in my lower drive bay and am now trying to erase it (in order to format it for use). It shows up in Disk Utility, but when I try to erase it (with Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and after I enter my admin password, I get the following error message:
Disk erase failed with the error: insufficient privileges.
I have verified permissions on my first drive, which I am booted up on. I've also tried booting up from the Tiger DVD and running Disk Utility from there, and I get the same error.
The new drive is a Maxtor 250gb DiamondMax, and I can find no instance online of anyone having problems with this drive on a Mac.
Otherwise, here are the system basics:
PowerMac G5
Dual 2ghz
2GB RAM
Thanks for any help you might have!
PowerMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Thanks yet again.
Interesting stuff, but since the new Maxtor is not yet recognized as a volume (outside of Disk Utility), those terminal commands didn't work. It kept returning the error that there was no such volume. I tried every different spelling (with/without spaces, underscores, caps) that I could think of of what appears in Disk Utility as "Maxtor SABRE."
Just to be clear - the only place I see any reference to the new drive is in Disk Utility. It's not on the Desktop or in Finder, and I couldn't find any reference to it in the Terminal.
And I also just noticed that the drive capacity is listed at 0 bytes in Disk Utility.
Perhaps this is simply a bad drive?
I also have a question in to the support site at Maxtor, and when I hear back from them, I'll post what they say.

Time Machine not backing up system files on second hard drive

The system files are not being included in my time machine backups on my primary drive (an internal SSD) but they are for my secondary drive (an internal HDD). I want to revert the system back to a previous state because of a change I made to the Audio folder in Libraries that may have cause an issue. When I look at the backup on my backup disk, the folder isn't even included on the SSD (the drive I made changes to). Is it hidden or just left out? I checked the Time Machine preferences and there are no folders listed to be excluded.
1) Does this mean that I will not be able to do a full system restore from these Time Machine backups?
2) How can I include those files in future backups?
Thanks!
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MacBook Pro Mid 2012
OS X 10.8.5 (12F45)
2.6 GHz Intel Core i7
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Volume needs repair message for second hard drive

I am getting the following message on my second hard drive (This hard drive just has data. OS is on the main HD)
Verifying volume “Mac Second HD”
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Checking HFS Plus volume.
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Welcome to the Discussions.
If Disk Utility can't repair it try DiskWarrior. It can repair most drive directory problems.
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Can't get Solaris 8 to show my second hard drive.

I installed Sol8 on a 1 hard drive intel machine (as the only OS, no windows). Later, I added a second hard drive, and after running the device config assistant (DCA) still doesn't show it in the list of drives under the 'format' command.
Physically, the new hard drive is using middle IDE plug on my IDE 0, original drive is plugged in on the end of IDE 0. The new hard drive is jumperred to slave, original was orignially set for single, that didn't work so I tried jumperring that one to master, no change in results. On IDE 1 I have a cd-rom on the end plug, originally with no jumper, then added jumper for master (middle plug is empty).
In the BIOS, the second drive was detected with the right number of heads, cyl, etc. It calls it my D drive.
I can get to certain screens in DCA to show me the second drive (only in respect to which drive should boot the kernal - I don't want to install the OS on the second drive, I just want it for extra storage).
Am I missing a step, or am I not installing the hard drive correctly? After DCA and reboot, it still only gives me a choice of my origial drive for 'format', and only shows one drive in the SMC.
I don't know what is on the new drive (it was pulled from another PC).

I have the same problem on x86 Solaris 10 that the format command cannot show my second hard drive, the master and slave hard disk are attached through one single cable and Solaris 10 is intalled in the master disk. I tried devfsadm -v but it still doesn't work, do you have any other way to do that? Thank you for any help.

Moving Audio and Jam Pack Content to second hard drive

I recently installed Logic Studio and all the content onto my startup hard drive (250 GB). I have a second internal hard drive (80 GB) that is wiped clean.
Can I safely move all the Audio and Jam Pack Content (contained originally on the 6 DVDs) from the startup hard drive to the second hard drive? Or do I have to go through the whole installation process again? If so, where is all the content located on my startup drive?
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Thanks. I found this which was helpful
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5340760
I decided to move them to the external hard drive and not use an alias. I haven't even opened Logic yet so the Logic library should be ok.

Problems with second hard drive

I bought my PowerMac G5 new in 2005 and about two years after I got it, I installed a second internal hard drive. I didn't have any problems with the drive until about six months ago (which was when I moved, but I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it). Around that point, I started hearing a single, loud click followed by a slight winding down noise. Then, my computer would almost completely freeze. After a few moments, I would hear a bunch of soft clicks and my computer would go back to normal. I figured that it was a problem with one of the hard drives, but I wasn't sure what to do.
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Could the drive itself be going bad and it has nothing to do with the cables? I have a utility installed that always monitors the SMART status and it hasn't reported any problems. Are there any other troubleshooting steps I should take? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

Before I bought DiskWarrior, I thought I'd try some troubleshooting with the software I have on hand. But while I was doing that, the problem got worse. Now, I'm having major problems just getting the computer to boot. I'll give you the rundown on what's happened. It goes through a few boneheaded twists and turns and goes on at great length, but I thought I'd relate it all in the hopes that someone can see a likely pattern.
My first thought was the Apple hardware test, which I had thought was on the Mac OS 10.5 install DVD. So naturally, I didn't see the hardware test listed under Utilities. But while I had it up, I used Disk Utility to do repairs on both hard drives (checking both the disk and permissions). It found no problems on the 2nd hard drive, but found a few errors with "leaves" on the booting drive. It also found a bunch of issues with the permissions, but I don't think it was anything out of the ordinary.
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Next, I thought I'd try OnyX to see what it could do. Which might not be much, but I had it repair the disks again and also had it run the daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance scripts.
I checked into the black screen & hyperactive fans booting problem elsewhere in the forums, and saw that it was recommended to run the Apple hardware test and also found the correct procedure for doing so, which was to insert the PowerMac G5 install disc (not the Mac OS X upgrade DVD) and press Option when booting. I loaded the disc, restarted, and held down the Option key, but before I could get anything to actually load, I had several more sessions with the black screen of fans.
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Satellite Pro A120 - Second hard drive on secondary IDE channel

Hello
I have a Satellite Pro A120 xp sp3.
I've been trying to get it to recognise a 2nd hard drive on the secondary ide channel but it won't. Cd drive has been removed and replaced with one of these, the with the pata to sata interface.
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The second hard drive is a seagate sata 500 GB drive. Drive is spinning and recieving power but not showing up in storage management or device manager.
In the Bio's (uptodate) it shows me this but won't let me edit it.
Drives I/O
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CD rom = Secondary ide (170H - IRQ 15)
To me the hardware is capable of supporting two HDD's as long as you remove cd drive but it seems like the bio's is locking me out of deselecting CD rom on the second IDE channel.
Please could some one point me in the right direction to resolve this.
Thanks
Zander

Thanks for the help.
Ok I followed what you said and this is what happens.
Uninstalled CD drive in device manager.
boot to bios with out 2nd hard drive in the slot. Bios shows no secondary IDE channel or hard drive
As soon as I push in the 2nd hard drive caddy and boot it says CD error, doesn't show in windows or device manager. Bios shows CD drive again. Also the CD drive is reinstalled in the device manager.
Tried it with original HDD with operating system on it in the 2nd hard drive bay and it won't boot, looks for bootable device but can't read it.
Why does it only see the cd drive! Annoying.
Any more ideas?

Pavilon 500-319na can I install a second hard drive

pavilon 500-319na second hard drive
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‎01-02-2015 09:30 AM
Operating System: Windows 8.1
I bought an HP Pavilion 500 - 319na desktop in summer and want to install a 2nd hard drive. There are spare connections on the board and the power cable to the internal hard drive has a spare connection. From what I read it needs to be SATA 3. I have read conflicting advice on this board. Some say yes, some say no.
OK, there seems to be only one bay (a poor oversight by HP) but provided I find a way of securing another drive is there any reason why it should not work.
From what I read it should be max 2Tb's.
I want a definitive answer please!
Win 8.1 64 bit.
This is the hard drive I plan to buy. The spec says XP, Vista, Win 7, but am I right in thinking it should work with win 8.1
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/components-upgrades/internal-hard-drives/3-5-inch-hard-drives/toshiba-...
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As I said to you in the other cross posting (desktop hardware):
You can obtain 3.5" hard drive cage from here for $11 shipped. Granted it has a 120mm fan and space for 4 drives, but for the price, you can mod/cut all you want.
Now your other issue/question: You will want a SataIII 6GB/sec drive 2TB, 7200 RPM.
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Hello, I have a G5 PPC. I want to install a copy of Entourage on the second hard drive. Can I do that or will it create problems for the processor?

Hi everyone
I had a very old intel iMac from late 2006 which was dying now dead. I just managed to copy the Entourage folder onto an external hard drive before the iMac gave up the ghost. But I could not open the Entourage copy on the G5 PPC. each time i tried to do so the PPC copy of Entourage would open instead.I have emails on the PPC copy and do not want to lose them. I was wondering if it would be possible to install another copy of Entourage on the second hard drive? I was hoping that by doing that I could access the information from the iMac which has been copied to an external hard drive.
Any help would be very very welcome.

I don't think MS lets you install Entourage outside of an active system folder. However, you can install a fresh copy of Entourage on the G5's hard drive (if you have Office 2008 or lower), then use Entrouge's Import command to move the data files from the old hard drive.
We're done this several times as we've upgraded either computers or Entourage.
However, I think that, before you act, you should also ask in Microsoft's user forums here:
Office for Mac forums
They are excellent and often an employee of their Macintosh unit will assist in answering.

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