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Hello.
I have TB 8 conected to iMac - Late 2015. I have installed eight Seagate EXOS 16TB HDDs.
The problem is that drives are not detected in either Disk Utility or SoftRAID - 7.0.1.
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Posted : 03/02/2023 12:18 pm
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I can't even hear the drives spinning.
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Posted : 04/02/2023 5:18 am
Most likely this is a cable issue. Does your cable have a Thunderbolt logo on it? (as opposed to a USB logo?)
YOu are plugged into a Thunderbolt 3 port, not a USB3 port with a USBC cable?
Posted : 04/02/2023 11:38 am
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@softraid-support i could not plug it into usb3 using usbc cable because i dont have that ports in my iMac late-2015.
I use thunderbolt 2 cable - mDP with adapter to thunderbolt 3 - usbc. I use original Apple cable and adapter.
Even if cable or adapter are broken, should drives spin up when i turn up the power button on array?
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This post was modified 3 years ago by bandzior
Posted : 04/02/2023 12:19 pm
Yes when a thunderbolt signal reaches the drives, they will spin up. If they are not spinning up, that means the computer is not able to communicate with them.
Posted : 04/02/2023 7:28 pm
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I have changed adapter and cable and there is no difference - i can see only blue led on and the HDDs are not spinning up. Any idea?
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Daniel
Posted : 07/02/2023 12:20 pm
Posted : 07/02/2023 2:23 pm
Can you even do that? I thought conversion from TB2 to TB3 required the host to be TB3 in order to use TB2 devices.
Posted : 14/02/2023 11:45 am
Disregard my last post. Found an article saying "yes, you can do that"
Posted : 14/02/2023 12:01 pm
