I've got a PATA/SATA adapter which connects via USB, and if I connect PATA drives to it they show up fine, but for some reason SATA drives aren't working. If I connect the same SATA drive to my Windows box it also shows up. Does anyone know what the cause of this is, and how to fix it?
This is on an older MacBook Pro (mid 2014), running High Sierra v10.13.6.
Best Answer
Assuming you’re using the same USB to PATA/SATA adapter on both the Mac and the Windows there are a couple factors which could contribute to the symptoms you’re seeing:
Before you decide that the drive or device is not functional, you can parse
dmesg
to see if the device was detected. You can also issue the commanddiskutil list
to see the disks detected by the OS. It may not be able to read the file system, but it will be detected.Additionally, since this is attached via USB, you can use
system_profiler
to view all attached devices. Just issue the commandsystem_profiler SPUSBDataType
and parse through the output, looking for your particular disk drive make, model, and size.