Mac Pro 2.66 drives in bay 2 and 3 display

I have 3 drives in my Mac Pro
bay 1 main drive OS 10.9.5
bay 2 ALL my files
bay 3 second set of files
bays 2 and 3 take a lot of time to display on the desktop
bay 1 - 3 minutes
bays 2 and 3 displays after about 5 to 6 minutes
when I try t open either drives in bay2 or 3
spinning ball and have to cold quit
tried switching drives around in bays same thing
possible BOTH drives are starting to go?
RD

I now see I switched bays again and the drives came right up, but clicking in and accessing gave me the spinning ball so I cold rebooted and clicked in again and after about 2 minutes the drive contents displayed. At that moment I was going to back up with CCC I got a msg that the disk I'm trying to copy has errors, so I'm waiting for disk utility to finish and hopefully correct.
I'm gonna need another drive, the drive giving me trouble is a Seagate, it's not the boot drive mind you it's the drive with all my files and never had problems with these drives before, should I get another Seagate?
anybody?
As I have to do this today.
R

Similar Messages

  • I just moved from a G5 PowerMac to a Mac Pro with one drive running Yosemite and one running Snow Leopard, Do I need Lion to be able to upgrade iPhotos

    How can I see my iPhotos from a G5 PowerMac on a MacPro running Yosemite and Snow Leopard? Is Lion a more advance system that Snow Leopard?

    The last iPhoto version you can run with Snow Leopard is iPhoto 9.2.4, and Yosemite needs iPhoto 9.6.
    Move your photos to your Yosemite partition, if you want to use iPhoto with Photo Streams and other iCloud features.
    As you are asking about Lion, you can run iPhoto iPhoto 9.2.3 or iPhoto 9.2.4 both with Lion and SnowLeopard, but there is no iPhoto version, that runs both on Yosemite and Snow Leopard, or Lion and Yosemite.

  • Is it OK to use USB 2.0 connection for Glyph external drive and Mac Pro as project drive?

    Is it OK to use a USB 2.0 connection for Glyph external drive and Mac Pro as project drive? I was told by Sweetwater tech support to use Firewire, but both the FW400 and FW800 connections crash my audio interface software mixer (Presonus' "Universal Control" software).
    Both Firewire connections also create a 10 second hang for each Command-Save that I do.
    USB 2.0 for the external drive seems to be working so far, but is there some reason I should be wary of using this as my go-to project drive? In other words, I am imagining that there was probably some definite reason that the tech support guy mentioned not to use it. But maybe not. It's a brand new Glyph. In any event, it's nice to have the 10 second hang eliminated, and I was just looking for some advice, since digging into the Presonus software issue could take some time.

    If you have a mac pro, why not stick the external HDD inside via one of your many SATA cables & have it run 9 times faster than your USB?
    Or stick a HDD CADDY in your mac pro, so you can slot in a full sized 3TB HDD for recording, and when you are done, pull it out & slip it in an external enclosure if you need to take it places?

  • Backing up Lion Mac Pro 3.1  drive

    Looking into backing up Lion Mac Pro 3.1  drive / Lion, Recovery HD / disk assistant.
    In Mac Pro I have Lion in drive bay 1 (297GB) and Windows 7 in bay 4 (465GB).
    I use Windows Image backup to USB external drive partition and have Lion Time machined to second partition therein.
    I have an unmounted (spare) 297 GB drive.
    Question is: can I occasionally do complete Lion disk utility copy of Bay 1 to (spare) mounted in drive bay 2 which I
    would remove and only ever use if Lion drive was damaged? Would it be a bootable duplicate of Lion and Recovery HD?

    To get a Recovery HD on your "spare" 297GB drive, I think Apple expected you to use Lion Recovery Disk Assistant. If you have an existing Recovery HD on your Main Drive, this little program can create the semi-hidden partiton and copy the contents of  your existing Recovery HD to another drive, such as an external drive:
    Lion Recovery Disk Assistant

  • On startup Mac Pro I get a blue screen and a cursor on the upper left. The mouse cursor shows up independently. Is it likely a video card failure?

    On startup Mac Pro I get a blue screen and a cursor on the upper left. The mouse cursor shows up independently. Is it likely a video card failure?

    I managed to boot the computer and get the desktop to show. I now have a "repaired" computer. There are several problems that have cropped up. One is that I can only start up now in Safe Boot mode. Is there a way to turn it off? Also, I do not have a sound list, so I can't access anything requiring audio. Google Chrome only shows up as a white screen. Pictures that loaded before don't load in browsers, etc. Any suggestions? I figure I should reinstall Mac OS Lion for starts, maybe even do a mirror backup and reformat the drive. I think this drive has turned into scrambled eggs...what a headache!

  • I cannot change song order on playlist with highlight and drag. I have turned off shuffle and highlighted the far left column( up/down arrow) of playlist. My mac pro is running 10.5.8  and am using itunes 10.4.

    I cannot change song order on playlists (old or new) with highlight and drag. I have turned off shuffle and highlighted the far left column (up/down arrow) of playlist. My mac pro is running 10.5.8  and am using itunes 10.4. I can't drag and drop "music" to "playlist" but can right click and get the option to "add to playlist." No such option for moving song within playlist, only the up and down arrow which moves song from top to bottom list, so if it is #4 from top it will move to #4 from bottom. Stupid I know. I spent over an hour with Apple support, reinstalled itunes, restarted and rebooted computer. Networked with my laptop which is running 10.6.8 and itunes 10.4 and it can drag and drop. The final Apple support solution was to reinstall my operating system. I would prefer not to. Any other ideas?

    After looking at other people's posts, I think it's official: there is a bug. Itunes support said I should not have lost the drag/drop tool and I haven't on the laptop that is running itunes 10.4 and operating system 10.6.8. I chatted with someboby who lost both his drag/drop and side scroll and what we have in common is a wacom tablet for a mouse. My laptop is a wireless mouse. I reinstalled whatever updated driver that wacom has out there, shut the system down for night, hoping for magic, but alas none to be had. So if I want to change song order, I network the laptop and desktop, share the screen on the laptop, drag and drop to my heart's content and curse Apple for making me work this hard to find the tool that was once at my fingertips. Apple also let me know that if I want to share songs in household that the hundreds on songs that were purchased for .99 need to be repurchased for another .30. Maybe Apple is holding my drag/drop tool captive til I pay up the money or Maybe the next update will fix the problem, I for one give up for now.

  • No OSX installer will boot on Mac Pro from any drive (grey screen), but Windows installer does...

    Greetings,
    Neither OSX 10.5 (shipped with my Mac) or 10.6 disks will start on either of my Mac Pro dvd drives.  They will not run from my Macbook (Mac Pro on firewire target mode) either, nor from a partition on the Mac Pro HDD.  They always go as far as the grey logo screen with the spinning wheel, where they get stuck. 
    Verbose mode will display the following lines where it gets stuck:
    DSMOS has arrived
    Warning - com apple.driver.InternalModemSupport declares no kernel dependencies; using com.apple.kernel.6.0
    Then it lists two ethernet addresses and nothing else.
    I have reset the PRAM about a hundred times in the last days.  Same goes for the SMC, well, maybe only a dozen times this one...  I have run fsck, too.
    I can no longer run the hardware test on the install disk 2, but when I still could a couple of days ago, all was reported fine.
    BTW Windows installer will load though...  What is going on here?!?
    Any suggestion (other than suicide, yet anyway!) would be greatly appreciated.

    Windows won't give a kernal panic or BSOD because it is a Mac related hardware issue.
    If you can't boot from CD/DVD:
    http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20050311073316780
    What resetting NVRAM does:
    http://devworld.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1103.html
    Your asking about a Mac Pro, but those are not "G5" and the OS can't be transferred between PowerMacs and Mac Pro.... are you sure we are talking about only Mac Pros?
    Putting XP and Mac OS on the same drive, that doesn't strike me as what one would do; keep them on different drives.
    And, if they are on the same drive, then you really haven't reformatted the drive, which would involve wiping any and all partitions, and then creating your Mac Standard (HFS+ Journaling) and backup XP with WinClone or install it to another drive.
    I don't have trouble with Windows, but I do with the Boot Camp Assistant and drivers.

  • Should I buy airport express, extreme or time capsule?  I have my new Mac Pro. 2 iPhones, 2 iPads , and grandchildren who come with their devices.  I live in a two-level house.

    Should I buy airport express, extreme or time capsule?  I have my new Mac Pro. 2 iPhones, 2 iPads , and grandchildren who come with their devices.  I live in a two-level house.

    A Time Capsule is an AirPort Extreme with a built in hard drive to allow your Mac(s) to back up automatically, so it's a logical choice if you need a wireless router and back up capabilities for your Macs
    The AIrPort Extreme has a bit better antenna arrangement than an AirPort Express, so it would be a good choice for a two level house.
    Depending on the location of the "main" wireless router, you may find that you still need to add an extender or two in other parts of the house for full, fast wireless coverage. The AirPort Express is a good choice for this duty.
    To compare the 3 Apple devices, see this Apple support document:
           Compare Apple Wi-Fi base stations          AirPort Express    AirPort Extreme    Time Capsule    

  • Can the Mac Pro run Window XP (booth camp) and be used as a MAc OS server

    Hi There
    Can the Mac Pro run Window XP (booth camp) and be used as a MAc OS server in the same time?
    I am a small business and I was thinking of using the new mac pro for a new workstation on my studio and to also use it as a server for 5 work others stations. Is that possible? Or I am asking a bit to much work load to do for the Mac Pro?
    Can the Mac Pro can run under Window XP and Autocad and still be accessed by other workstation whilst working on the cad software? Is booth camp will slow the machine like Virtual PC?
    IS the MAc Pro can manage file hosting website with PHP and mySQL capabilites?
    CHARLES
    MAC PRO Mac OS X (10.4.7)

    Great question, but it appears the answer is no (at this time); they promise to work on it immediately. Check this thread at parallels.
    http://forum.parallels.com/thread3659.html
    iMAC G5 20" - 2GB RAM - 150 GB Hard Drive   Mac OS X (10.4.6)   Also MacMini & MacBook Pro Intel Core Duo - OS X & WIN2K

  • You can't use The following message is stopping me access my disk utility.  'this version of the application "Disk Utility" with this version of OS X.'  not only that my Mac pro keeps dropping my internet connection and logs on to BT Open.

    After installing Yosmite, The following message is stopping me accessing my disk utility.  'You can't use this version of the application “Disk Utility” with this version of OS X.' you have “Disk Utility” 12.1.1. 
    not only that my Mac pro keeps dropping my internet connection and logs on to BT Open.
    Help

    For whatever reason you don't have the Yosemite version of Disk Utility which is 13. I suggest you reinstall Yosemite.
    Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive
    Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
    Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
    When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list.  In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive.  If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
    Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Continue button.
    Download and install the 10.10.1 update.
    Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
    Check that you have the current version of Disk Utility.

  • Brtand New Mac Pro Internal Optical Drive Won't Work

    Actually, this is a two parter. My new Mac Pro internal optical drive rejects every disk I insert. It won't read anything. Should I get it replaced? Part two: I have an external Sony optical drive which was working up until yesterday. Today, I was going to go through some disks and now THAT drive is rejecting everything. I had it connected via USB and changed it to a 400 to 800 firewire. I tried to read some disks again and still they get rejected. What can I do to correct these problems?

    I am having the exact same problem with my mac pro since upgrading to 10.5.7 neither of my drives will read CD or DVD and it states that no burning software was found in the system profiler

  • HT1338 I recently purchased a new Mac Pro w/ mountain lion 10.8 and I am using my Apple 30 inch monitor.  When watching video or browsing certain websites, my monitor will flicker grey and sometimes lock up.  I figure it is the grphic crd or I am missn a

    recently purchased a new Mac Pro w/ mountain lion 10.8 and I am using my Apple 30 inch monitor.  When watching video or browsing certain websites, my monitor will flicker grey and sometimes lock up.  I am a video producer so this is quite frustrating...I figure it is the grphic card or I am missn a plugin or driver update? help!

    Maybe this will help:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1573
    PRAM reset: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11243                       
    SMC reset: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964  

  • Using Logic 7.2 on a Mac Pro with Protools 7.2.1 and Mac OS 10.4.7

    I am researching purchasing a New Protools/Logic System
    Seems the version of Protools to use with the new Mac Pros is 7.2.1, which only recently came out to work with the new "Mac Pros" Digidesign has stated thhat it works with and Mac OS 10.4.7
    The latest version of Logic is 7.2 which has been out for a while....hmmm
    Is anybody using Logic 7.2 on a New Mac Pro with Protools 7.2.1 and Mac OS 10.4.7, and does it work?

    Logic Pro 7.2.2 is not compatible with DAE/TDM on a Mac Pro INTEL.
    You will see only "CoreAudio" as available choice, when trying to engage your audio hardware.
    We have to wait for any announcements in this regard, maybe at AES or DigiDays in San Francisco.
    Best,
    21th

  • HT200169 Having a problem with Logic 9 on a Mac Pro.Working on a lenghty song and apparently session got corrupted.Doesnt let me export tracks,program crashes.Already tried start brand new session with the tracks imported into it but still wont export.Sug

    Hello,having a problem with Logic 9 on a Mac Pro.Working on a lenghty song and apparently session got corrupted.Doesnt let me export tracks,program crashes.Already tried start brand new session with the tracks imported into it but still wont export.Suggestions?

    Thanks, Ian. Yeah, that's how I do it now...or with the controls in the left side pane. Still, I would have liked that quick on-the-spot edit capability...especially while sketching.
    Ian Turner wrote:
    Sorry Mark, you are out of luck as it does not do that - it works the same as L8. The way I would achieve that with more accuracy and control would be to route all the tracks you want to fade to a Bus then use volume automation on the bus. To do this you will need to add a standard audio track, then re-assign it using (Control Click on the track header) to the Bus track. You can then automate volume/plugins etc on the Bus track.
    Ian

  • HT3523 i just bought a mac pro 15' 8 gigs 2.3 and the program star and quick time do not recognize my dvd disk that i feed  to be edited or do anything with it....no import etc ...what do i do?

    I have a mac pro with 15' screen 8 gigs and can not edit my dvd video from the star edit program that is included with the computer...i wonder if i need to download something???? it play the dvd and opens the star program but i can't import the dvd content into the program(star so i can star editing...what choices do i have

    If you are trying to edit a commercial (store bought ) video, it will not allow this due to copy protection on all commercial disks.  Here are some links for editing in iMovie:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2209
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2208
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2212
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2235
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2315
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2292
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2283
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2258
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2308
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2201
    Hope some of these help, you can also go to HELP in iMovie, type in a question for information.
    All the best

Maybe you are looking for

  • Can't find drivers (W98SE) for my Portege A100

    I own a Toshiba Portege A100 laptop. I want to install Windows 98 SE. I first had a look at the drivers download in this UK site. It appears there are no downloads for Windows older than 2000. I can only download 2000 or XP drivers. Is it possible to

  • Multiple versions...how do I change the default?

    It seems like there are 10 ways to change the version of java when you have more than one installed and none of them seem to work for me. Have a 1.4, a 1.5 and a 1.6 installed. When I run "java -version" I always get back 1.6 I can't seem to figure o

  • How to restructure this code into separate classes?

    I have C# code that initializes a force feedback joystick and plays an effect file(vibrates the joystick). I have turn the console application into library code to make a dll so that I can use it in LabVIEW.  Right now all the code is written under o

  • Can't copy and paste images that i've converted from pdf to word

    can't copy and paste images that i've converted from pdf to word

  • Condition based mainten

    hi all , i have two querries... 1.It was given in help.sap. tht system can create notification automatically whenever measuring value of a measuring point exceeds the target value,but i could not find the setting... any idea on how this can be done.