[Mac Pro bonus eSATA drives not showing in unRAID]

Lol, this problem is more easily solved with a friggin' PCIe card. Forget those ODD ports.

[Mac Pro bonus eSATA drives not showing in unRAID]

Yeah, I'm reading users booting Windows via bootcamp run into the same problem, the solution to which is installing AHCI SATA drivers to the Windows bootcamp partition and also modifying the OS X MBR to play nice with the drivers.

 

The issue lies in the BIOS emulation, for which a workaround exists for Windows. Question is whether or not any such fix exists for unRAID.

[Mac Pro bonus eSATA drives not showing in unRAID]

17 minutes ago, itimpi said:

I would suggest you post the system diagnostics zip file (obtained via Tools->Diagnostics) which might give some clues.

Good suggestion. It's attached here - 

tower-diagnostics-20200107-1855.zip

[Mac Pro bonus eSATA drives not showing in unRAID]

I'm working on bringing unRAID online on a Mac Pro 1,1. So far I've been able to boot unRAID and can access it via web portal. I can see the internal drive bays no problem. However, the Mac Pro 1,1 logic board has 2 additional, some say hidden, eSATA ports. I've been using the MP to run multiple striped RAIDS redundantly, one of which is housed in an external eSATA enclosure - just a two bay enclosure that powers and cools the drives - driven by those two eSATA ports. My understanding is that there's no difference between accessing those two eSATA ports and the 4 internal drive bays. Those two drives show up flawlessly on boot in MacOS, but when I boot unRAID, they're nowhere to be seen. Has anyone dealt with this?

[Cannot open root device null -- new system help]

On 1/20/2019 at 11:54 AM, TieDyeGeek said:

Hello! I'm trying to setup unRAID for the first time on a Mac Pro 1,1. I am using a plop boot manager CD to auto boot off of USB. I am able to see the blue Lime Technology screen and start the boot into "Unraid OS", but kernel panic every time. I have tried multiple flash drives for unRAID, and have tested my flash drive on another computer and it is able to boot up. I have also tried every USB port on the computer in case one would work over another for some reason, but am still stuck. 

 

The error message I get is:  

Attached is a picture of the full error. 

 

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!

TieDyeGeek, I'm hoping to pick your brain here. I'm also trying to get unRAID to play nice on a MP 1,1. I'm using plop via CD drive and have unRAID loaded onto a USB stick that I've verified on other machines. So far I haven't been able to get anything to work on the MP. When I select USB on the Plop menu, the screen freezes when it reaches the port in which the USB stick is living. I never get to seeing the Lime Tech screen. Any thoughts?

[Unraid on older Mac Pro's]

On 3/19/2018 at 4:20 PM, Holla said:

Burn the Plop Bootloader to a CD. Works on Mac pro 1.1.

 

 

Did you need to update the EFI on the 1,1 to get Plop to play nice? I'm trying to run it on my 1,1 via superdrive to test unRAID but I can't get the actual manager to function. My understanding is that the manager should run directly from the cd drive, but so far I'm only seeing the installer, which is unresponsive.