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MP 7,1 Mac Pro 2019 NVME RAID drives failing to mount
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Could you be a little bit more specific: is the NVM Express Controller listed in PCI section in System infromation ?My IOcrest 2x NVme card is no longer recognized in Seqoiai'm going back.
The controller is visible everywhere. In diskutility(but greyed out), system information, pci configuration utility, .....
Everywhere except in Finder or on the desktop. The 2 NVME-disks on the card are configured as RAID-0.
Tried resetting, different PCI-slots, multiple restarts, activating in diskutility gives an error.
It worked extremely well installed on a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB drive connected to the internal SATA port.
I was using a Samsung 850 EVO SSD connected to one of the two internal SATA ports. I did use Monterey on an NVME drive in a Sonnet card - no issues there - but Monterey wasn't known to have issues with NVME drives disappearing.
Yeah I found the post that answered my Q. Sonoma was giving me a lot of trouble.
I want to avoid overheating and overwriting my internal Apple SSD as much as possible as its a PITA to change. So I was referring to running the new OS on an internal 3rd party PCIe NVME drive. Seems its possible and reliable now.
Thank you for your help but I think I found the solution. After a little thinking and reading some articles about PCI slots, there was one possibility I did not try out. PCI slot3 was occupied with a Sonnet 4xNVME Silent Card. The IO Crest controller was in slot 4. I exchanged those two and now everything seems to be fine. I'll see if this stays this way the next couple of days. Thanks again.
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Not at all. See my previous posts. Yesterday I thought I found the solution but today the problems are back again. Instead of not recognizing the IO-Crest controller Sonoma now does not recognize the Sonnet NVME controller.
Thanks Apple❗
Not at all. See my previous posts. Yesterday I thought I found the solution but today the problems are back again. Instead of not recognizing the IO-Crest controller Sonoma now does not recognize the Sonnet NVME controller.
Thanks Apple❗
Did you check Expansion Slot Utility bandwidth allocations ?
This is mine config:
Slot 3 = Sonnet
Slot 4 = IO crest
When IOcrest is in Pool B the IOcrest is vissible and the Sonnet not
When IOcrest is in Pool A the IOcrest is not visible and the Sonnet does
I spent the whole morning in switching Pool A or B, switching cards in differerent lanes and all I get
is or only the IOcrest is visible or only the Sonnet card. Seqoia only recognizes one RAID at the time.
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OK, so, you have RAID arrays on both M.2 controllers ? Just for testing, can you temporary use one or multiple NVMe blades on one of the cards without RAID ?
I've removed the RAID of the IOcrest. With two seperate blads it's working oké.
But when I configur a RAID in Seqoia it's gone again.🥴
Well, for me and many others, a few bugs seem to have been squashed.
I will not. My post was not in response to anything you have written, but rather an expansion of the post prior to mine, where I extracted some key information for people who just want a quick summary.
Hard to say if your dual RAID should count as enough of a 'special case' or not, but I've only seen stable performance so far with my Sonnet Fusion soft RAID. I do hope your case gets sorted out as well, though.
It has been a few days since updating to MacOS 15 and all my non-mounting issues are gone.
I do not have a RAID card - just a few Samsung SSDs mounted on PCI cards.
The upgrade process went smoothly.
I do not have a RAID card - just a few Samsung SSDs mounted on PCI cards.
The upgrade process went smoothly.
That sleep mode problem is an interesting one. Back when I used attempt putting this mac to sleep, I first suspected Power Nap (which seems to wake your mac to perform background tasks). So I switched that off. It was better, but still woke up on occasion. Then after a chat with support, I was told SpotLight indexing was another culprit. Didn't want to turn that off, so waited it out for a few days to finish indexing, and again the mac did indeed wake less. But I could never convince it to stay asleep without turning off services I found to be useful.
These days, I'm cheating. Since the mac now has new server duties (via VMs) as well as its standard workstation tasks, I never ask it to sleep, since hosted services would be affected.
This Sleep Problems Link also suggested you might have to perform an SMC reset (which I think equates to unplugging your MP 7.1 for 15 minutes, and then plugging it in again). Not sure, never tried it.
Just read your edit, glad you found the issue
These days, I'm cheating. Since the mac now has new server duties (via VMs) as well as its standard workstation tasks, I never ask it to sleep, since hosted services would be affected.
This Sleep Problems Link also suggested you might have to perform an SMC reset (which I think equates to unplugging your MP 7.1 for 15 minutes, and then plugging it in again). Not sure, never tried it.
Just read your edit, glad you found the issue
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- Try Ohanaware's Sleep Aid
- clear the power schedule, & disable system access to the power management schedue.
No worries, good on you for finding the solution & thanks for the tip! I like to think that if we're still smiling at the end, we're still winning