Can you deactivate the hard drive bays using command line or other method?
I have recently filled all my bays in my Mac Pro, but do not need all drives active at once. I also have the hard drive sleep feature turned off as a requirement for software i am running. I know there are ways to deactivate ram, is there something similar to unmount drives in the bays? I can unmount in disk util but they will come back online after a restart..
Thanks in advance!~
I have several disks in my Mac Pro, but the additional disks are not used often. Rather than have them spinning all the time wasting power and pushing out heat, I enabled drive sleep.
However, I don't want my boot disk to sleep. So I wrote a cronjob to touch a file in /tmp every five minutes.
Open a shell and type: crontab -e
Then paste this in at the end of the file:
# Keep root disk from sleeping.
*/5 * * * * touch /tmp/blah ; rm /tmp/blah
Problem solved; now your other disks will sleep and your root drive will not. You can touch additional locations to stop other disks from sleeping by adding more crontab entries.
It's a hack, but it works. pmset really should allow you to set specific settings for each disk.
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https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+13-Inch+Retina+Display+Mid+2014+SSD+Rep lacement/27849
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First off I have a 3tb fusion drive.
I created a 200gb bootcamp, I tried deleting the bootcamp because I thought I messed it up and googled how to delete a mac partition which told me to use Disk Utility, did that and then erased it and somehow it got locked and wouldn't let me do anything to any partition on my hard drive (everything was greyed out)
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To be honest I am absolutely confused on what else to do!
Is there anyway I can fix this?How do I go about deleting and then re-adding the hard drives? Completely lost on how to make it back to being a 3gb fusion drive.
Thank you for all your help, I honestly really appreciate it.
I followed your instructions and got the following
diskutil list:
-bash-3.2# diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 120.5 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *3.0 TB disk1
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 1.9 TB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
4: Apple_CoreStorage 251.9 GB disk1s4
5: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk1s5
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_partition_scheme *1.3 GB disk2
1: Apple_partition_map 30.7 KB disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS OS X Base System 1.3 GB disk2s2
/dev/disk3
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Untitled *1.9 TB disk3
Logical Volume on disk1s2
FD9357F1-1A71-44A0-A01E-41C84F1C8047
Unencrypted
/dev/disk4
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Untitled *251.5 GB disk4
Logical Volume on disk1s4
31B60F49-6981-47A3-9815-6396AD3A9BD6
Unencrypted
/dev/disk5
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *5.2 MB disk5
/dev/disk6
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *524.3 KB disk6
/dev/disk7
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *524.3 KB disk7
/dev/disk8
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *524.3 KB disk8
/dev/disk9
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *524.3 KB disk9
/dev/disk10
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *524.3 KB disk10
/dev/disk11
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *6.3 MB disk11
/dev/disk12
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *2.1 MB disk12
/dev/disk13
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *1.0 MB disk13
/dev/disk14
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *524.3 KB disk14
/dev/disk15
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *524.3 KB disk15
/dev/disk16
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *1.0 MB disk16
/dev/disk17
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *319.4 GB disk17
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk17s1
2: Apple_HFS IMAC TMB 319.0 GB disk17s2
/dev/disk18
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *6.3 MB disk18
/dev/disk19
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: CD_partition_scheme *804.4 MB disk19
1: Apple_partition_scheme 700.4 MB disk19s0
2: Apple_partition_map 32.3 KB disk19s0s1
3: Apple_HFS WD SmartWare 237.5 MB disk19s0s2
-bash-3.2#
diskutil cs list
-bash-3.2# diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (2 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 687E889E-B4A1-4F20-8B36-43D7A3701076
| =========================================================
| Name: Untitled
| Status: Online
| Size: 1946162462720 B (1.9 TB)
| Free Space: 5402624 B (5.4 MB)
| |
| +-< Physical Volume 7BCD8D9C-AEB2-4D48-B248-257EFC7EA922
| | ----------------------------------------------------
| | Index: 0
| | Disk: disk1s2
| | Status: Online
| | Size: 1946162462720 B (1.9 TB)
| |
| +-> Logical Volume Family 3A8A9627-5963-49BA-8E2F-96DC7A1B033D
| ----------------------------------------------------------
| Encryption Status: Unlocked
| Encryption Type: None
| Conversion Status: NoConversion
| Conversion Direction: -none-
| Has Encrypted Extents: No
| Fully Secure: No
| Passphrase Required: No
| |
| +-> Logical Volume FD9357F1-1A71-44A0-A01E-41C84F1C8047
| ---------------------------------------------------
| Disk: disk3
| Status: Online
| Size (Total): 1945804734464 B (1.9 TB)
| Conversion Progress: -none-
| Revertible: No
| LV Name: Untitled
| Volume Name: Untitled
| Content Hint: Apple_HFS
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 98213AE6-9EA8-4FB7-8B72-8E08BFBFD82C
=========================================================
Name: Untitled
Status: Online
Size: 251864797184 B (251.9 GB)
Free Space: 5226496 B (5.2 MB)
|
+-< Physical Volume 20CEF763-635D-4A0D-A107-40E8FB161D06
| ----------------------------------------------------
| Index: 0
| Disk: disk1s4
| Status: Online
| Size: 251864797184 B (251.9 GB)
|
+-> Logical Volume Family 2D3173B3-5B04-47E6-B331-49D1BA58E9F2
Encryption Status: Unlocked
Encryption Type: None
Conversion Status: NoConversion
Conversion Direction: -none-
Has Encrypted Extents: No
Fully Secure: No
Passphrase Required: No
|
+-> Logical Volume 31B60F49-6981-47A3-9815-6396AD3A9BD6
Disk: disk4
Status: Online
Size (Total): 251507245056 B (251.5 GB)
Conversion Progress: -none-
Revertible: No
LV Name: Untitled
Volume Name: Untitled
Content Hint: Apple_HFS
-bash-3.2#
Disk0
-bash-3.2# gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=121332826112; sectorsize=512; blocks=236978176
gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 236978175
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 235298960 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
235708600 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
236978136 7
236978143 32 Sec GPT table
236978175 1 Sec GPT header
-bash-3.2#
Disk1
-bash-3.2# gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk1
gpt show: /dev/disk1: mediasize=3000592982016; sectorsize=512; blocks=5860533168
gpt show: /dev/disk1: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk1: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk1: Sec GPT at sector 5860533167
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 3801098560 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3801508200 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3802777736 1912
3802779648 491923432 4 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
4294703080 262144 5 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
4294965224 1565567911
5860533135 32 Sec GPT table
5860533167 1 Sec GPT header
-bash-3.2# -
Can I swap the hard drive from MacBook Pro 17 (2009) to MacBook Pro 15 (2006)?
My MacBook Pro 17 (2009) died. Pushing the power button gets no response. I had had problems with it for some time turning it on, it usually taking many many tries. Plus when I'd try to do a restart after updating software, instead of doing so it'd shut off super quick with a *pop* sound. There was never any of the typical hard drive going bad sounds I've read about and seen in videos. Since it has refused to turn on I've gone through every suggestion I can find to get it to turn back on. Unhook the battery and try starting from just the power cord; the shorting the power pads move; some thing undoing the battery, counting to 10, and then the next steps now escape my memory, but doing more counting to 10 inbetween; unplugging the battery and leaving it sit for 2 days with no power cord plugged in either, then hook it to a power cord and turn it back on; and so many more.
Also the symptoms just before this fiasco were as follows: I had a CD in the internal drive and was browsing through the images on it via the handy previewer using the space bar. Then I decided to quite, tried ejecting the CD by dragging the icon to the trash, and nothing. I tried again. The same. Then I pushed on the eject key, with the ejct icon popping up on the screen momentarily, but still nothing. Then it appreared as though some things worked and other things were not working. In my frustration I went to the Apple menu and clicked restart with a wince knowing it was going to take forever to turn back on. It did the usual quickly off with a *pop* and made super short lame attempts to turn back on when using the power button. Of course the CD kept trying to spin for a split second and then the little indicator light on the front would go out, then no noise at all.
Since I do not believe it is the hard drive (of course I could be wrong not being a Mac nerd at all), I was wondering if I can switch the hard drive to my Macbook Pro 15 (2006)?
I tried this, but it would not read the hard drive. Just a blank grey screen. If it is possible to do this swap, what are the exact steps to do? Please answer like I'm completely illiterate on this, because I really am. I'm super scared of losing everything on the dead MacBook's hard drive. Yeah yeah, I know: then why have I not been backing things up? I had the week prior. Believe me I WILL be doing it daily from now on if I get this mess straightened out!
Here are the specs for each MacBook Pro:
Name: MacBook Pro 17 (info gained from the serial on the bottom and then looked up online)
Model: A1297
Model Code: mbp_17_early_09
CPU Type: Intel Core 2 Duo
CPU Speed: 2.8GHz
RAM Type: DDR3 PC8500 SODIMM 1066MHz
RAM Slots: 2
Max RAM by Slot: 2 x 4GB
Maximum RAM: 8GB
RAM Pairing: Modules may be installed individually
Hard Drive Connection: SATA 300
Hard Drive Platter Size: 2.5"
Device Connectivity: USB 2.0, FireWire 800
Video Output (base graphics option): Mini DisplayPort
Expansion Slots: ExpressCard/34
Max Operating System Version: 10.6.8 (I believe that is what was last on the computer)
Name: MacBook Pro 15" (retrieved from the System Profiler on this Mac)
Model Identifier: MacBookPro2,2
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.33 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 3 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP22.00A5.B07
SMC Version (system): 1.12f5OGELTHORPE really sorry to keep bugging you, but it's obvious you know what you are talking about and I'm stuck on thin ice here getting this fixed, because there are no authorized Apple reps here. I would rather shoot myself for messing up, then to trust someone who "says" they can fix my Mac down here.
I checked out a company owned by ebay that is the same down here, called MercadoLibre. There are quite a few adapters listed there. I'd like to give you links for some and was wondering if you minded taking a look to tell me if any seem to fit the bill. Some have specs in English, others don't. (Google translater is my friend!)
#1. http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-415826915-adaptador-usb-a-ide-y-sata-con -cables-y-fuente-envio-gratis-_JM
#2. http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-416270876-usb-20-to-ide-sata-25-35-hard- drive-_JM#D[S:HOME,L:HISTORY,V:1]
#3. http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-416384859-adaptador-usb-20-a-sataide-_JM
#4. http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-415596152-adaptador-usb-20-para-sata-e-i de-manhattan-_JM
#5. http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-416061182-adaptador-de-usb-a-sata-o-ide- 3525-con-fuente-externa-_JM
#6. http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.uy/MLU-416061069-convertidor-usb-20-a-sata-hdd- 25-soporta-hasta-1tb-_JM
These are all cost effective enough that I don't care the price - cheap, expensive - whichever will work the BEST!
I've also looked for the 7200 rpm HDD, and although I found some, I'll be danged if they are not 3.0, instead of the 2.5 that I have. Grrrr! I was willing to spend the $90 for 1tb... or being the non-techie that I am, can this 3.0 go into my 2006 MBP??
Just so you can see what all is listed right now:
http://listado.mercadolibre.com.uy/7200-rpm-hdd-2.5-macbook-pro
Another newbie question: How do I check what the amount if RAM is presently installed in it? (I might be a greenhorn, but I take pride in not being a dumbie and I learn when taught)
Right now, I'm willing to spend almost anything. I want a few files that are on the HDD at the moment that I was stupid and did not backup on my external. One file I worked on all day due to the dimensions I had to design it at and each effect took a long time to render. I really don't want to do that one again!.. I'm also willing to spend anything that won't cost me the price of a new iMac. Figure that should be the next one I buy that is affordable, but won't be overworked like the MBP was.
Once again, thanks much for all of your help! -
I have a late 2008 Macbook Pro last updated to the Mavericks OS. The screen died and I took it into an Apple store and was told replacing the screen and the hardware to repair everything would cost almost as much as buying a new laptop or a cheaper model. I was told that I can use a drive sled to access data I need on my hard drive. How do I remove my hard drive and use a drive sled to get to the information I need? What makes matters more complicated is I need to update my iPhone and my iTunes/App store purchases. How can I accomplish this?
My wife has a late 2008 Macbook Pro as well, which I am assuming I need to run my hard drive. Is there a way to just access just my hard drive without interfering with hers?
I know this is lengthy. Thanks to whoever looks at this and offers advice/instruction.the device you need is an External enclosure for a 2.5" (laptop form factor) SATA drive.
A USB-interface enclosure will be slow, but is adequate for this task and for re-purposing as a backup drive later. A firewire-interface drive would be faster, but is harder to find, more expensive, and faster than needed for this purpose.
The drive will mount as an "extra" drive on your wife's Macbook, and you can drag and drop whatever you wish. You could create a separate Account for yourself on her computer, and use Migration Assistant or just copy your stuff over to the new account. Then it would not interfere with her files. -
Can I take the hard drive from a late 2008 MacBook Pro and put it in an Early 2011 MacBook Pro?
I just got a new 15" MBP and I want to give my older one to my son. The "older" one is an Early 2011. My son has the Late 2008 model. My brother will take the 2008 MBP once I've moved all my son's stuff to the 2011. Here's the question. My son has a 750GB hard drive on the 2008. He has partitions on it for Boot Camp and for his games. The 2011 only has a 500GB hard drive. Rather than erasing the 2011, restoring it from Time Capsule, then setting up Boot Camp and the other partitions all over again, or even using Winclone or something like that, can I just swap the hard drives? It would certainly faster and easier. I just wonder if there is a technical reason why I shouldn't do that.
You could always give it a shot - the only problem that you might run into is that the the early 2011 might not boot when the hard drive is swapped from the 2008 hard drive. Some versions of OS X are simply not compatible between different models.
But it's worth a try...
Clinton
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