Question
How can I reconfigure a LaCie Big Disk Extreme so that Mountain Lion will see both of its disks?
Background
Once, years ago, I accidentally did something bad to a LaCie device. Where normally its two disks appeared to Mac OS X as one larger disk, the accident caused the two smaller disks to appear. At the time, I chose to resolve the issue by reinstalling firmware with a LaCie-provided utility.
Now: I probably need to 'break away' from that RAID-oriented firmware – intentionally, not accidentally.
I don't want to create two volumes, neither can I place the disks in different enclosures.
I want to work with the two separate disks with the current enclosure, so that I can experiment with things such as ZFS.
When I last checked, in 2012, LaCie's firmware utility for this class of drive could not run on Lion.
Data in this enclosure is, always will be, disposable.
System information for the device
LaCie Big Disk Extreme LUN 0:
Manufacturer: LaCie Group SA
Model: 0x1
GUID: 0xD04B5A0E058DF1
Maximum Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec
Connection Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec
Sub-units:
LaCie Big Disk Extreme LUN 0 Unit:
Unit Software Version: 0x10483
Unit Spec ID: 0x609E
Firmware Revision: 0x102
Product Revision Level: 912