How to speed up early (January) 2008 Mac Pro
Hello,
Have just bought a s/hand Mac Pro whch I would like to speed up a little. I have 8Gb RAM installed and can go to 16Gb, and could possibly replace my boot drive with SSd.
Can anyone tell me which is the better speed investment for using programmes like iMovie and PhotoShop? (not intensively, but regularly).
I have read in a couple of places that SSd's favour 'read' over 'write' so wondered whether heavy writing programmes like PhotoShop would not fare well on such a drive?
Thanks..BC
There is only one way to make the computer truly run faster - faster CPUs and faster GPUs. SSDs only improve the speed of data I/O. If you don't do a lot, then SSDs only help with the speed of launching applications.
More RAM doesn't make the computer faster it only enables the computers to run more applications concurrently or help applications that are very dependent on the use of physical RAM. See:
About OS X Memory Management and Usage
Using Activity Monitor to read System Memory & determine how much RAM is used
Memory Management in Mac OS X
Performance Guidelines- Memory Management in Mac OS X
A detailed look at memory usage in OS X
Understanding top output in the Terminal
The amount of available RAM for applications is the sum of Free RAM and Inactive RAM. This will change as applications are opened and closed or change from active to inactive status. The Swap figure represents an estimate of the total amount of swap space required for VM if used, but does not necessarily indicate the actual size of the existing swap file. If you are really in need of more RAM that would be indicated by how frequently the system uses VM. If you open the Terminal and run the top command at the prompt you will find information reported on Pageins () and Pageouts (). Pageouts () is the important figure. If the value in the parentheses is 0 (zero) then OS X is not making instantaneous use of VM which means you have adequate physical RAM for the system with the applications you have loaded. If the figure in parentheses is running positive and your hard drive is constantly being used (thrashing) then you need more physical RAM.
Adding RAM only makes it possible to run more programs concurrently. It doesn't speed up the computer nor make games run faster. What it can do is prevent the system from having to use disk-based VM when it runs out of RAM because you are trying to run too many applications concurrently or using applications that are extremely RAM dependent. It will improve the performance of applications that run mostly in RAM or when loading programs.
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Yet, it fails consistently.
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Aug 5 05:33:08 localhost Unknown[328]: kern.boottime: { sec = 1312547567, usec = 0 } Fri Aug 5 05:32:47 2011
Aug 5 05:33:08 localhost Unknown[338]: Launching the Language Chooser for an OS Install
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Aug 5 05:33:21 localhost LCA[339]: Using keyboard layout 0
Aug 5 05:33:21 localhost Unknown[340]: Keyboard Layouts: duplicate keyboard layout identifier -16899.
Aug 5 05:33:21 localhost Unknown[340]: Keyboard Layouts: keyboard layout identifier -16899 has been replaced with -28673.
Aug 5 05:33:21 localhost Unknown[340]: Keyboard Layouts: duplicate keyboard layout identifier -16900.
Aug 5 05:33:21 localhost Unknown[340]: Keyboard Layouts: keyboard layout identifier -16900 has been replaced with -28674.
Aug 5 05:33:21 localhost LCA[339]: Found primary language hint "en"
Aug 5 05:33:22 localhost configd[111]: subnet_route_if_index: can't get interface name
Aug 5 05:33:23 astaroth LCA[339]: Using keyboard layout 0
Aug 5 05:33:23 astaroth LCA[339]: Found primary language hint "en"
Aug 5 05:33:23 astaroth LCA[339]: Launching the Installer using language code "English"
Aug 5 05:33:24 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Bookmark failed to issue extension for item (depth=4000): No such file or directory
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Aug 5 05:33:24 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Display[2] is NOT using OpenGL acceleration.
Aug 5 05:33:24 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: @(#)PROGRAM:Install PROJECT:Install-684
Aug 5 05:33:24 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: @(#)PROGRAM:Mac OS X Installer PROJECT:OSInstaller-346.1
Aug 5 05:33:24 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Hardware: MacPro3,1 @ 2.80 GHz (x 8), 32768 MB RAM
Aug 5 05:33:24 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Running OS Build: Mac OS X 10.7 (11A511)
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Aug 5 05:33:24 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Env: OS_INSTALL=1
Aug 5 05:33:24 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Env: _=/System/Installation/CDIS/LCA.app/Contents/MacOS/LCA
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Aug 5 05:33:27 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMBootCapable=0 (bootable if you call MKCFPrepareBootDevice)
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Aug 5 05:33:27 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMNewfsRequired=0 (bootable with MKCFPrep but it will rudely carve)
Aug 5 05:33:27 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM <-T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: MKerr=0 out=4=0x4
Aug 5 05:33:27 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ->T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: inUDS=0x112a3ac30=disk1s2=Windows7
Aug 5 05:33:27 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMBootable=1 (bootable right now without any further action)
Aug 5 05:33:27 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMBootCapable=0 (bootable if you call MKCFPrepareBootDevice)
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Aug 5 05:33:27 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMNewfsRequired=0 (bootable with MKCFPrep but it will rudely carve)
Aug 5 05:33:27 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM <-T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: MKerr=0 out=4=0x4
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Aug 5 05:33:28 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PK will install package file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/Danish.pkg (42574848 b)
Aug 5 05:33:28 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PK will install package file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/Finnish.pkg (42875904 b)
Aug 5 05:33:28 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PK will install package file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/Korean.pkg (45684736 b)
Aug 5 05:33:28 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PK will install package file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/Norwegian.pkg (42617856 b)
Aug 5 05:33:28 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PK will install package file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/Russian.pkg (45253632 b)
Aug 5 05:33:28 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PK will install package file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/Swedish.pkg (42807296 b)
Aug 5 05:33:28 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PK will install package file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/BrazilianPortuguese.pkg (43142144 b)
Aug 5 05:33:28 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PK will install package file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/SimplifiedChinese.pkg (45471744 b)
Aug 5 05:33:28 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PK will install package file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/TraditionalChinese.pkg (44797952 b)
Aug 5 05:33:29 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PK will install package file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/Portuguese.pkg (43168768 b)
Aug 5 05:33:29 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PK will install package file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/Polish.pkg (43360256 b)
Aug 5 05:33:29 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PK will install package file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/Arabic.pkg (42934272 b)
Aug 5 05:33:29 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PK will install package file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/Hungarian.pkg (30493696 b)
Aug 5 05:33:29 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PK will install package file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/Turkish.pkg (30557184 b)
Aug 5 05:33:29 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PK will install package file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/Czech.pkg (30099456 b)
Aug 5 05:33:29 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PK will install package file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/X11User.pkg (82910208 b)
Aug 5 05:33:29 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PK will install package file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.pkg (0 b)
Aug 5 05:33:29 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Setting external root to: /
Aug 5 05:33:29 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: OSI: com.apple.pkg.BaseSystemResources remapped external root path to: /
Aug 5 05:33:29 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Total install size including padding: 6436848640 b + 0 b non-OS collection items
Aug 5 05:33:29 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Can not connect to /var/run/systemkeychaincheck.socket: No such file or directory
Aug 5 05:33:29 astaroth Unknown[340]: Keyboard Layouts: duplicate keyboard layout identifier -16899.
Aug 5 05:33:29 astaroth Unknown[340]: Keyboard Layouts: keyboard layout identifier -16899 has been replaced with -28673.
Aug 5 05:33:29 astaroth Unknown[340]: Keyboard Layouts: duplicate keyboard layout identifier -16900.
Aug 5 05:33:29 astaroth Unknown[340]: Keyboard Layouts: keyboard layout identifier -16900 has been replaced with -28674.
Aug 5 05:33:29 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PK will install signed package file://localhost/Volumes/Lion/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20Data/MacOS_10_7_Incompat ibleAppList.pkg
Aug 5 05:33:29 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PFPackage::packageWithURL - can't instantiate package: /System/Installation/Packages/OSInstall.mpkg
Aug 5 05:33:29 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Error opening package "OSInstall.mpkg".
Aug 5 05:33:30 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Starting installation:
Aug 5 05:33:30 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Performing volume consistency check on 'Lion'.
Aug 5 05:33:30 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Checking Volume
Aug 5 05:33:30 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Checking file system
Aug 5 05:33:30 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Aug 5 05:33:30 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Checking extents overflow file.
Aug 5 05:33:30 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Checking catalog file.
Aug 5 05:33:33 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Checking multi-linked files.
Aug 5 05:33:33 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Checking catalog hierarchy.
Aug 5 05:33:33 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Checking extended attributes file.
Aug 5 05:33:36 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Checking volume bitmap.
Aug 5 05:33:37 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Checking volume information.
Aug 5 05:33:37 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: The volume Lion appears to be OK.
Aug 5 05:33:37 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Volume repair complete.
Aug 5 05:33:37 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Updating boot support partitions for the volume as required.
Aug 5 05:33:37 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ->T-[DMToolBootPreference buildBootCachesForDisk:forcing:]: inDiskUDS=0x7fa55d931a48=disk3s2=Lion inForce=1
Aug 5 05:33:37 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ->T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: inUDS=0x112a3ac30=disk3s2=Lion
Aug 5 05:33:37 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMBootable=1 (bootable right now without any further action)
Aug 5 05:33:37 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMBootCapable=0 (bootable if you call MKCFPrepareBootDevice)
Aug 5 05:33:37 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMBootSurgeryRequired=0 (for primitive MBR on BIOS, add boot block and loader)
Aug 5 05:33:37 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMFSSurgeryRequired=0 (for primitive MBR on BIOS, add boot block and loader)
Aug 5 05:33:37 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMNewfsRequired=0 (bootable with MKCFPrep but it will rudely carve)
Aug 5 05:33:37 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM <-T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: MKerr=0 out=4=0x4
Aug 5 05:33:37 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM <-T-[DMToolBootPreference buildBootCachesForDisk:forcing:]: 1
Aug 5 05:33:37 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ->T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: inUDS=0x112a3ac30=disk3s2=Lion
Aug 5 05:33:37 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMBootable=1 (bootable right now without any further action)
Aug 5 05:33:37 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMBootCapable=0 (bootable if you call MKCFPrepareBootDevice)
Aug 5 05:33:37 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMBootSurgeryRequired=0 (for primitive MBR on BIOS, add boot block and loader)
Aug 5 05:33:37 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMFSSurgeryRequired=0 (for primitive MBR on BIOS, add boot block and loader)
Aug 5 05:33:37 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMNewfsRequired=0 (bootable with MKCFPrep but it will rudely carve)
Aug 5 05:33:37 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM <-T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: MKerr=0 out=4=0x4
Aug 5 05:33:38 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Volume passed consistency checks.
Aug 5 05:33:38 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Promoting non-target imgsrc volume /Volumes/Snow.
Aug 5 05:33:38 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Calculating expected install size requirements
Aug 5 05:33:38 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Reserved for install: 7022.4 MB (0.0 MB non-OS collection items, 585.5 MB recovery system)
Aug 5 05:33:38 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Currently available: 999197.5 MB
Aug 5 05:33:38 astaroth Unknown[340]: 2011-08-05 05:33:38.460 Mac OS X Installer[356:165b3] Looking for system packages
Aug 5 05:33:38 astaroth Unknown[340]: 2011-08-05 05:33:38.501 Mac OS X Installer[356:165b3] no system packages found
Aug 5 05:33:38 astaroth Unknown[340]: 2011-08-05 05:33:38.501 Mac OS X Installer[356:165b3] No or Invalid system receipts found on /Volumes/Lion/Recovered Items
Aug 5 05:33:38 astaroth Unknown[340]: 2011-08-05 05:33:38.501 Mac OS X Installer[356:165b3] Attempting fallback using: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SystemMigration.framework/Resources/FallbackS ystemFiles.plist
Aug 5 05:33:38 astaroth Unknown[340]: 2011-08-05 05:33:38.710 Mac OS X Installer[356:165b3] Finding system files...
Aug 5 05:33:38 astaroth Unknown[340]: 2011-08-05 05:33:38.977 Mac OS X Installer[356:165b3] Writing system path cache.
Aug 5 05:33:38 astaroth Unknown[340]: 2011-08-05 05:33:38.981 Mac OS X Installer[356:165b3] FSF cache NOT written: /Volumes/Lion/Recovered Items/Library/Caches/com.apple.FindSystemFiles.plist
Aug 5 05:33:39 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Reapable space: 0.0 MB
Aug 5 05:33:39 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Creating recovery system for volume "Lion".
Aug 5 05:33:39 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ->T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: inParams={
DMGChunkFile = "/Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/BaseSystem.chunklist";
DMGFile = "/Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/BaseSystem.dmg";
DonorDiskUDSW = "disk3s2 Lion";
RepairDonor = 0;
VerifyImage = 0;
Aug 5 05:33:39 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Creating recovery volume.
Aug 5 05:33:39 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: donor disk's storage system is simple so it itself will be the donor
Aug 5 05:33:39 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: normalized donor: logical=0x7fa559c1aa28=disk3s2=Lion=(iflvuuid=(null)) physical=0x112b40cb0=disk3s2=Lion=disk3s2 storage=(null)
Aug 5 05:33:39 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: ensured donor is slice and on GPT
Aug 5 05:33:39 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: donor's whole-disk=0x112b40c10=disk3
Aug 5 05:33:39 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: ensured target and donor are reasonable sizes (>2GB) to support a full OS installation
Aug 5 05:33:39 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Checking target disk
Aug 5 05:33:39 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: doing fsck of simple donor slice=0x112b40cb0=disk3s2=Lion
Aug 5 05:33:39 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Checking file system
Aug 5 05:33:39 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Aug 5 05:33:39 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Checking extents overflow file.
Aug 5 05:33:39 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Checking catalog file.
Aug 5 05:33:42 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Checking multi-linked files.
Aug 5 05:33:42 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Checking catalog hierarchy.
Aug 5 05:33:42 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Checking extended attributes file.
Aug 5 05:33:45 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Checking volume bitmap.
Aug 5 05:33:46 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Checking volume information.
Aug 5 05:33:46 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: The volume Lion appears to be OK.
Aug 5 05:33:46 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: done fsck of donor slice; err=0
Aug 5 05:33:46 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: doing check if there is a WindowsOS at part#4 on phy's whole=0x112b40c10=disk3
Aug 5 05:33:46 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: if WINOS on partID=4 then caution; isWindowsOSonPart4=0
Aug 5 05:33:46 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: at DoneCheckingDontPushWindowsOSPast4
Aug 5 05:33:46 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: doing test of boot.ini file(s) updatability on phy's whole=0x112b40c10=disk3
Aug 5 05:33:46 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: done test boot.ini updatability; err=ShouldAbort=0
Aug 5 05:33:46 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: was .dmg already attached/mounted = 0
Aug 5 05:33:46 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Attaching disk image /Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/BaseSystem.dmg
Aug 5 05:33:46 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ->T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: inUDS=0x112a3ac30=disk3s2=Lion
Aug 5 05:33:46 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMBootable=1 (bootable right now without any further action)
Aug 5 05:33:46 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMBootCapable=0 (bootable if you call MKCFPrepareBootDevice)
Aug 5 05:33:46 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMBootSurgeryRequired=0 (for primitive MBR on BIOS, add boot block and loader)
Aug 5 05:33:46 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMFSSurgeryRequired=0 (for primitive MBR on BIOS, add boot block and loader)
Aug 5 05:33:46 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMNewfsRequired=0 (bootable with MKCFPrep but it will rudely carve)
Aug 5 05:33:46 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM <-T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: MKerr=0 out=4=0x4
Aug 5 05:33:48 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: done attach; err=0
Aug 5 05:33:48 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: got VolMP=/Volumes/Mac OS X Base System 1 VolUDS=0x112b40a10=disk17s3=Mac OS X Base System WholeUDS=0x112b40ab0=disk17
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: ensured img's attached vol is an OSX system
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: calc requiredFileSpaceForRecoveryFilesULL from file sizes, also is further preflight that files exist
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: start with 0 B
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: peek src=/Volumes/Mac OS X Base System 1/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi err=(null)
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: add 858800 B
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: peek src=/Volumes/Mac OS X Base System 1/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/Startup/kernelcache err=(null)
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: add 23992189 B
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: peek src=/Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/BaseSystem.dmg err=(null)
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: add 451307798 B
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: allocating kEstimatedBootDotPList_LogicalSizeULL
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: add 16384 B
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: peek src=/Volumes/Mac OS X Base System 1/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist err=(null)
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: add 475 B
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: peek src=/Volumes/Mac OS X Base System 1/System/Library/CoreServices/com.apple.recovery.boot/PlatformSupport.plist err=(null)
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: add 2245 B
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: doing BaseSystem.dmg's ChunkList
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: peek src=/Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/BaseSystem.chunklist err=(null)
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: add 1876 B
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: CALC result phase 1 (after adding up logical file sizes in dmg + expected to create ourselves) requiredFileSpaceForRecoveryFilesULL=476179767 =Sbydiv=930038 =Mbydiv=454
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: add no provision for existing files in booter (will only be adding fixed iomedia-alloc-for-BootRoot later below)
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: CALC result phase 2 (after considering ExistingIfAny booter volume files with physical on-disk rounded up to alloc block sizes) requiredFileSpaceForAllFilesULL=476179767 =Sbydiv=930038 =Mbydiv=454
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: create desiredMinRecoveryDiskIOMediaSizeULL; start with requiredFileSpaceForAllFilesULL
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: add kConvertFromLogicalSizeToIOMediaSize_ULL=16777216
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: CALC result phase 3 (converted to iomedia desired size) desiredMinRecoveryDiskIOMediaSizeULL=492956983 =Sbydiv=962806 =Mbydiv=470
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: after adding allowance for BootRoot kBootRootEtc_IOMediaSizeULL=134217728 desiredMinRecoveryDiskIOMediaSizeULL=627174711
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: CALC result phase 4 (after adding BootRoot iomedia allocation) desiredMinRecoveryDiskIOMediaSizeULL=627174711 =Sbydiv=1224950 =Mbydiv=598
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: after applying kIfNewRecoverySystemMakeEntireBooterAtLeast_IOMediaSizeULL=650000000
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: CALC result phase 5 (after applying minimum) desiredMinRecoveryDiskIOMediaSizeULL=650000000 =Sbydiv=1269531 =Mbydiv=619
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: doing find/create/resize recoveryDisk
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ->T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: inMinSizeB=650000000 inSTORorNOT=(null) inPhyUDS=0x112b40cb0=disk3s2=Lion inLogUDS=0x7fa559c1aa28=disk3s2=Lion inLogREF=(null) inPct=16..32
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: READY TO SCAN EXISTING CONDITIONS
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: existing conditions right after PHY=disk3s2: usedOrNotSpaceB=134221312 hasBooter=0 booterPartID/disk=0/(null) booterLocB/SizeB=0/0
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: existing conditions of PHY: disk3s2 loc=S=409640=B=209735680 siz=S=1952853344=B=999860912128=N=999860912128
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: existing conditions of LOG: disk3s2 (could be whole so no loc) siz=S=1952853344=B=999860912128=N=999860912128
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: did preflight that booter, if any, is not mounted
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: READY TO DO CASE: case=CreateNewBooterAfterShrinkingSimple spaceDeltaB=515778688 booterDeltaB=0 (adviceIfUnable=-69886)
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: case: shrink simple and create booter in thusly-opened-up space
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: note: PHY host should have already been fsck-checked by caller, for in case we need to resize, such as in this case
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Shrinking host partition and creating new recovery partition
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: boost whatToDo_SpaceDeltaReqULL by const for if we grow time-over-time in chunks, now=515778688
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: boost whatToDo_SpaceDeltaReqULL by const for if at end of map=515782784
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: did gross sanity preflight that delta better be smaller than total host
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: phyDonorOrigSize=999860912128 ->shrink-> donorDesiredB=999345129344
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: bef alignHFSrsz donorDesiredB=999345129344
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: aft alignHFSrsz donorDesiredB=999345127424
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: will be creating new booter to occupy gap=(0=MaxFitToFill)=0
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Shrinking target volume from 999860912128 to 999345127424 bytes
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Shrinking file system
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: did vol shrink on donor slice; err=0
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Shrinking partition and creating new recovery partition
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Modifying partition map
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: did shrink of donor slice part itself, and created new slice=(
disk3s3
) err=0
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: did get BSD of newly created recovery disk
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: at SuccessfullyDidACase; oooRecDiskBSD/UDS=disk3s3/0x112b40870=disk3s3
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: ensuring output rec disk = booter is Apple_Boot type (fail-safe DM/MK/iokit bugs)
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: do unmount recoveryNewDisk, should be superfluous because its part type should not be automounted
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: doing newfs_hfs on newly created recovery disk
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Formatting recovery partition
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Initialized /dev/rdisk3s3 as a 620 MB HFS Plus volume with a 8192k journal
Aug 5 05:33:49 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Mounting disk
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ->T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: inUDS=0x112a3ac30=disk3s2=Lion
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: did newfs_hfs of recovery disk; err=0
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: at exit with err=0 unmountMeOnErrExit=0x0
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM <-T-[DMToolBootPreference getMakeRecDisk:storage:phyUDS:logUDS:logREF:recBSD:percentBegin:percentEnd:]: retErr=0 outDisk=disk3s3
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: final recoveryDisk=disk3s3=0x112b40b60=disk3s3=Recovery HD
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Mounting recovery partition
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: did mount of recovery disk; err=0
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: recoveryDiskMountpoint=/Volumes/Recovery HD
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: did best-effort create MdsNoIndex=/Volumes/Recovery HD/.metadata_never_index success=1
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: did best-effort create FSEventsNoIndexDir=/Volumes/Recovery HD/.fseventsd err=(ignoring)=(null)
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: did best-effort create FSEventsNoIndexFile=/Volumes/Recovery HD/.fseventsd/no_log success=1
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: recoveryFilesDstPath=/Volumes/Recovery HD/com.apple.recovery.boot
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Creating boot loader directory
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMBootable=1 (bootable right now without any further action)
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMBootCapable=0 (bootable if you call MKCFPrepareBootDevice)
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMBootSurgeryRequired=0 (for primitive MBR on BIOS, add boot block and loader)
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMFSSurgeryRequired=0 (for primitive MBR on BIOS, add boot block and loader)
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMNewfsRequired=0 (bootable with MKCFPrep but it will rudely carve)
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM <-T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: MKerr=0 out=132=0x84
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ->T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: inUDS=0x112a3ac30=disk3s2=Lion
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMBootable=1 (bootable right now without any further action)
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMBootCapable=0 (bootable if you call MKCFPrepareBootDevice)
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMBootSurgeryRequired=0 (for primitive MBR on BIOS, add boot block and loader)
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMFSSurgeryRequired=0 (for primitive MBR on BIOS, add boot block and loader)
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMNewfsRequired=0 (bootable with MKCFPrep but it will rudely carve)
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM <-T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: MKerr=0 out=132=0x84
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: did best-effort remove any pre-existing recovery dir; err=(ignoring)=Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4 "“com.apple.recovery.boot” couldn’t be removed." UserInfo=0x7fa559e1a090 {NSFilePath=/Volumes/Recovery HD/com.apple.recovery.boot, NSUserStringVariant=(
Remove
), NSUnderlyingError=0x7fa559e1a010 "The operation couldn’t be completed. No such file or directory"}
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: did create dir; err=(null)
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Copying boot loader
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: did copy file boot.efi; err=0
Aug 5 05:34:00 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Copying kernel
Aug 5 05:34:01 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: did copy file kernelcache; err=0
Aug 5 05:34:01 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: starting lengthy copy of dmg file itself and force name to BaseSystem.dmg
Aug 5 05:34:01 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Copying system image
Aug 5 05:34:11 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: did copy file dmg; err=0
Aug 5 05:34:11 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: did copy file SystemVersion.plist; err=0
Aug 5 05:34:11 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: did copy file PlatformSupport.plist; err=0
Aug 5 05:34:11 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: did copy chunklist and forced name to BaseSystem.chunklist; err=0
Aug 5 05:34:11 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: writing bootPlistDict={
"Kernel Cache" = "\\com.apple.recovery.boot\\kernelcache";
"Kernel Flags" = "rp=file:///com.apple.recovery.boot/BaseSystem.dmg";
} to pathName=/Volumes/Recovery HD/com.apple.recovery.boot/com.apple.Boot.plist
Aug 5 05:34:11 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Writing boot plist
Aug 5 05:34:11 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: note: the bootPlist size better not exceed 16384 B
Aug 5 05:34:11 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: bef bless; dir=/Volumes/Recovery HD/com.apple.recovery.boot file=/Volumes/Recovery HD/com.apple.recovery.boot/boot.efi label=Recovery HD
Aug 5 05:34:11 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Blessing boot file
Aug 5 05:34:11 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: aft bless; err=0
Aug 5 05:34:11 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: at Exit; err=0
Aug 5 05:34:11 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: recoveryDiskBSD=disk3s3 physicalDonorBSD=disk3s2
Aug 5 05:34:11 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]: detach if set: didDiskImageAttach=1
Aug 5 05:34:11 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Detaching disk image
Aug 5 05:34:11 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM <-T-[DMToolBootPreference ensureRecoveryPartitionForVolume:]
Aug 5 05:34:11 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Done creating recovery volume.
Aug 5 05:34:11 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Configuring volume "Lion"
Aug 5 05:34:11 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Preparing disk for Netbooted OS Install.
Aug 5 05:34:11 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ->T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: inUDS=0x112b40c30=disk3s2=Lion
Aug 5 05:34:12 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMBootable=1 (bootable right now without any further action)
Aug 5 05:34:12 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMBootCapable=0 (bootable if you call MKCFPrepareBootDevice)
Aug 5 05:34:12 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMBootSurgeryRequired=0 (for primitive MBR on BIOS, add boot block and loader)
Aug 5 05:34:12 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMFSSurgeryRequired=0 (for primitive MBR on BIOS, add boot block and loader)
Aug 5 05:34:12 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM ..T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: PMNewfsRequired=0 (bootable with MKCFPrep but it will rudely carve)
Aug 5 05:34:12 astaroth diskmanagementd[360]: DM <-T+[DMToolBootPreference getPartitionBootability:]: MKerr=0 out=132=0x84
Aug 5 05:34:12 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Volume disk3s2 mounted at /Volumes/Lion is ready
Aug 5 05:34:12 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Preparing disk for local booted OS Install.
Aug 5 05:34:12 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Physical memory statistics immediately before turning on virtual memory backing store:
Aug 5 05:34:12 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Physical Memory Allocation: 3258 MB wired, 6 MB trapped, 117 MB active, 99 MB inactive, 29288 MB free, 29504 MB usable, 32768 MB total
Aug 5 05:34:12 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Activated virtual memory backing store at mount point '/Volumes/Lion'
Aug 5 05:34:12 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Preparing disk for local booted install.
Aug 5 05:34:12 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Creating installation log on volume "Lion"
Aug 5 05:34:12 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Create temporary directory "/Volumes/Lion/Install.356O3Gevl"
Aug 5 05:34:12 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: IFPKInstallElement (48 packages)
Aug 5 05:34:12 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: Using authorization level of root for IFPKInstallElement
Aug 5 05:34:12 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PackageKit: ----- Begin install -----
Aug 5 05:34:12 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PackageKit: request=PKInstallRequest <48 packages, destination=/Volumes/Lion>
Aug 5 05:34:12 astaroth OSInstaller[356]: PackageKit: packages=(
"PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/BaseSystemBinaries.pkg>",
"PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/BaseSystemResources.pkg>",
"PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/Essentials.pkg>",
"PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/BootCamp.pkg>",
"PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/BSD.pkg>",
"PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/PodcastCapture.pkg>",
"PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/JavaTools.pkg>",
"PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/RemoteDesktop.pkg>",
"PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/SIUResources.pkg>",
"PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/AdditionalEssentials.pkg>",
"PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/System/Installation/Packages/AdditionalSpeechVoices.pkg>",
"PKLeopardPackage <fiI figured out the problem.
This is going to sound a little crazy, but I've spent a lot of time on this one.
There's some kind of incompatibility with Lion and Seagate ST31000340AS drives. I was trying to install Lion on these drives and it would consistently fail. I've also tried to use these drives in a RAID volume. No go. I tried three different drives of this model. All of them failed.
I tried to install Lion on a Seagate ST31000528AS and it worked first time and sings beautifully. -
Does January 2008 Mac Pro boot into 64bit?
Hello,
Although it says here http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3770 that early 2008 Mac Pro can boot into 64bit, though not by default with Snow Leopard, I'm wondering if my January 2008 quad 2.66 model is just too early?
Machine Profile (Micromat) shows 'processor bitrate 64 bit, EFI bitrate 32 bit, Kernel bitrate 32 bit'. So should I give up on the '64 bit kernel and extensions' option for this machine?
Thanks...BCI just thought I would share my Mac Pro 1.1 experience. I recently had to replace a failed memory riser card by buying a pair from ebay (they both failed a month apart) and took advantage of the opportunity to replace my Mac Pro 2006 with the 2008 model for $700 and inserted my drives and upgraded to 10.8.5. Just holding off on Mavericks for now... Bought a Radeon 5770 and graphics are just peachy (i'm not a gamer). Then I put a samsung ssd 512gb in as the system drive and a 3tb for data so that machine is going fine
What to do with the 2006 Mac Pro?. No one wants it on ebay so I thought i'd try it on Windows. Windows 32bit loads via boot camp once you figure out how to recognise the sata bus (depends on your windows 7 dvd version i think) but under 32 bit you only get 2gb usable ram ! something , not just video is addressing 2gb so that *****. You cannot boot off the 64bit dvd (try it) so i installed 64bit windows 7 on a clean drive on my core2dou pc then put the drive in my 4core xeon mac pro. It booted fine and installed alot of drivers for the xeons automatically. Then I got some drivers from 64bit bootcamp and sound drivers from the realtek website. Then , I upgraded to 64 bit windows 8 pro and everything still works. Then, I downloaded the free windows 8.1 pro update and everything still works..... As PCs go, this is still a pretty fast machine, and gives little away to , say an i5 or i7. If you put in an SSD and gamers video card it would fly, but i dont need that.... -
I have an early 2008 MAC PRO Quad Core 3.0ghz processor. 8 Gig of rams, with a 1 Gig memory Radeon 5770 HD Graphic Card running the latest Version of Snow Leopard OS. Last week lighting struck the house take out all of my hard drives (4) thank god the surge protector mitigated the mother board from damaged, use the Parted Magic to check out the motherboard and it intact with no damage. I can boot with the Parted-magic and be able surf and post this question to this forums. I replaced a newly formatted hard drive and trying to installed OS X Mountain Lions to the new drive, but unable to have it boot in my MAC PRO DVD, I get the usual chimes during the booting processed but the screen remain blackout, but able to boot with Parted-Magic to surf the web and access Apple sites/forums.
I am not well verse in using the Parted_Magic to repair or get my-mac to boot normally so I can reinstall OS X. Any help would appreciated.
Thank you
Disabled Veteran.Go to System Profile and look, does it say "MacPro3,1"?
That is 2008.
FBDIMM would be 800MHz. Did you use older slower 667MHz in yours?
You can but take a hit in performance.
Sounds like MacPro1,1.
Mac Pro (3.0GHz quad core (dual CPUs) 8GB 667 RAM)
In 2007 March an 8-core 3GHz did come out 2,1.
So just to be clear.
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It was all working fine a couple of days ago. At the time it randomly shut down I was trying to use Boot Camp to create a Windows 7 area,
Whenever you want to install Windows, remove all the drives other than the one Windows goes to. And if you use a dedicated drive YOU DO NOT NEED Boot Camp Assist, unless you use XP, which really is limited and crippled (one processor, 1.9GB RAM support).
And when it freezes, your only choice is to nuke (reformat) and restore or get out that backup CLONE you made before (ie, Step #1 in the Boot Camp Guide).
Sure that whole NTFS / MBR / GUID could be an issue, but you should just have a blank drive or clone.
No don't bother Apple, they seem to not have a good sense about Windows on Mac Pro anyway.
Other than zap pram from cold boot / tried booting with NO drives inside and just 10.6. DVD - should be fine.
You should be fine iwth Windows 7 DVD and one drive, or even XP.
Make sure you take your time and reconnect cards etc properly and any cables.
Booting from OS X DVDs may not work if there is a drive with a totally shot directory or partition table. Put them in FW case and turn on AFTER OS X is booted.
Why aren't people Cloning as a Backup Strategy
Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.2
How To clone -
I have a pre-2008 Mac PRO how do I upgrade to Mountain Lion?
I have a pre-2008 Mac PRO how do I upgrade to Mountain Lion? On the Apple's site on upgrading (http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/), I see that "Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer)" is required for the upgrade. What's up with that?
Will upgrading of the GPU do the trick?
I'm curretly on Snow Leopard, will I be limited to Lion?
Kamal
my system info:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 2
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 13 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP11.005C.B08
SMC Version (system): 1.7f10
Serial Number (system): xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-00xxxxxxxx
ATI Radeon X1900 XT:
Chipset Model: ATY,RadeonX1900
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
Slot: Slot-1
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 512 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x7249
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-A52027-140
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.140I have the following Mac Pro which I have upgraded the GPU to an ATI Radeon HD 5770:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro1,1
Processor Name: Dual-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3 GHz
Number of Processors: 2
Total Number of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per Processor): 4 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Bus Speed: 1.33 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MP11.005C.B08
SMC Version (system): 1.7f10
Serial Number (system): G86334VTUPZ
Hardware UUID: 00000000-0000-1000-8000-0017F20153D2
Mountain Lion won't install.
Will this change or do I need to further upgrade the GPU.
Thanks In Advance!
--Dave K. -
Why are there so many problems with the early 2008 Mac Pro ???
Hi everybody out there using Mac Pro's early 2008,
I found out there is a lot of problems with the early 2008 Mac Pro.
My early 2008 Mac Pro has been repaired ones under warranty and now it stopped working again ! Also see under: Mac Pro early 2008 no chime and does not start up. Why is this ????
It worked well for about 2 years and then it just fails and i had this failing issue twice already !!! Is this just a BAD Apple product or how do you think I need to approach this. Let’s face it, these machine don’t come cheap and you at least expect them to work without problems for 4-5 years. What is happening here ???
Cheers, Kavangogo to a black screen after 15 minutes or a couple hours
That is probably an indication that you need to find a new graphics card.
RE: Mac Pro Replacement Graphics cards
1) Apple brand cards,
2) "sold in the Apple store" cards, and
3) "Mac Edition" cards ...
... show all the screens, including Boot up screens, Safe Mode, Installer, Recovery, debug screens, and Alt/Option boot screens. At this writing, these choices include:
1) Apple brand cards:
• Apple-firmware 5770, about US$250** works near full speed in every model Mac Pro, Drivers in 10.6.5
• Apple-firmware 5870, about US$450
2) "sold in the Apple store" cards
• NVIDIA Quadro 4000, about US$1200
• NVIDIA Quadro 5000, about US$2500
3) "Mac Edition" cards -- REQUIRE 10.8.3 or later:
• SAPPHIRE HD 7950 3GB GDDR5 MAC Edition, about US$480** Vendor recommends Mac Pro 4,1
• EVGA GTX 680 Mac Edition, about US$600
The cards above require no more than the provided two 6-pin aux power connectors provided in the Mac Pro through 2012 model. Aux cables may not be provided for third-party cards, but are readily available.
If you are Meet ALL of these:
• running 10.8.3 or later AND
• don't care about "no boot screens" etc AND
• can re-wire or otherwise "work out" the power cabling, THEN:
You can use many more cards, even most "PC-only cards" -
Hi, I have an early 2008 Mac Pro which has re-booting problems.
Processor speed is: 2.8
Memory: 2GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
2 x 28GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon
I am running OSX Yosemite Version 10.10
My Mac Pro keeps re-booting. Last year I had to replace my graphics card. My original card was the ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 255MB, and that is what I have now. At this precise moment my Mac Pro is running perfectly, except that it is slow and the spinning beach-ball keeps appearing. I have managed to do some work with the disk utilities, verifying, cleaning and partitioning. Some errors were found and when it was cleaned this seemed to help my Mac Pro to function properly. Although I am able to use my Mac Pro now, from day to day I still experience re-boot problems. Also quite unexpectedly my mac dictionary has an error, it closed itself down and will not open at all, I had the message to say that a report will be sent to Apple.
I have tried starting my computer with an external hard drive fitted via a USB cable, I use for back-ups. This worked and I was able to wipe my hard drive clear and replace all info from the back up I had done only a few days ago.
This worked for a few days and then the same problem started again.
I am beginning to wonder if I need to buy a new hard drive.
If there is anyone who has some answers to help me solve my problem, I would be most grateful.
RobertWhen you have the beachball activity, note the exact time: hour, minute, second.
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Each message in the log begins with the date and time when it was entered. Scroll back to the time you noted above.
Select the messages entered from then until the end of the episode, or until they start to repeat, whichever comes first.
Copy the messages to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of it useless for solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting. -
Where and what type of solid state drive should I buy for my early 2008 Mac Pro Desktop??
where can I buy and what type of solid state drive should I use to upgrade my early 2008 Mac Pro Desktop??
Rick,
When you get a chance.... DSLReports is off line: their SQL server decided to take its indexes and access to data. Power. Not enough of the right kind of UPS. Same happened to StorageReview's "Drive Reliability Database" about 8-9 yrs ago.
dslreports.com is offline
Fri Apr 20 09:05:55 EDT 2012
SSD: Loading CS5 plus other little monsters might matter.
Lots of small I/Os
latency of 1/100th where nanoseconds replace those "long" milliseconds
System: Small and fast.
DLLoyd even goes for short-stroking drives to get and maintain highest I/O
The new 10k VRs hit 200MB/sec - I still use them and still find them useful, long lasting, feel responsive with whatever I ask of them. I know they get criticized and "cost too much"
Just bought a new WD Black and yes it is better than the 2008 model I was using.
600GB 10K $200 vs $150-220 for WD Black. your choice
I can destroy a 7.2k drive, I have brought ever 10K drive back after a simple WD Extended Test in Lifeguard.
I don't really care about $$/GB or I wouldn't have just bought Intel 128GB $149
Database: the pros put the index in memory and page fix (virtual volumes in memory; cache; hold disk drive index in memory). Caching storage has been around for almost 40 yrs.
Today you can use SSDs as front end cache to hold DB indexes and frequent data for web servers and such adn use slower secondary storage.
SSD + SAS + 4TB storage
Separating the system from data: #1 must
Having data on array: been what I use
I put a large photo library on 2 x 10K VRs vs SSD and couldn't tell much difference (SSD is soundless of course) But my WD Blacks make as much noise and run 15*C hotter than those 10K (not what you expect?)
While 10K and 7.2K are in the 140-180MB/sec range, they are in 3.0 to 12.0 ms seeks, not 0.01 ms.
People wonnder why shrink a drive to 2.5" (or why not go down to 1.8".
How long does it take to reposition a disk head? how often? the 10K VR travels on outer tracks at 70 MPH. Really trying to fly off into space.
It uses one step to find the "zip code" and then another DSP to find the "house."
True of any high density perpendicular recording mechanism.
And of course while the Raptor-X tried to find a home with famers, Cheetah buyers, the WD 10K line has more of a home where servers and small form factor drives - and 100s of them - can fit in a rackmount server I imagine.
Anyway.... if SR and DSLReports can drop out of site due to power and hardware failure and loss... we can learn some and hope to protect our own data and investments. -
So I've just got myself a early 2008 Mac Pro with a OCZ RevoDrive 80GB PCIe SSD to replace my old iMac which is slowly but surely giving up on me. I want to put my OS (mavericks) and some/all (whichever is possible/easier) apps, both apple and 3rd party, from my old iMac, onto the SSD but keep all my other data on the 2TB HDD, also from my old iMac, in the mac pro. Can anyone tell me how to do this/if its possible? (not massively tech savvy so simpleish language and steps would be handy!) Thanks!
How to use an SSD with your HDD
If you are going to use an SSD as a boot drive together with your existing HDD as the "data" drive, here's what you can do.
After installing the SSD you will need to partition and format the SSD using Disk Utility. Then, install OS X on the SSD. After OS X has been installed boot from the SSD. Use Startup Disk preferences to set the SSD as the startup volume.
Open Users & Groups preferences. Click on the lock icon and authenticate. CTRL- or RIGHT-click on your user account listing in the sidebar and select Advanced Options from the context menu. You will see a field labeled "Home dir:" At the right end you will see a Change button. Click on it. In the file dialog locate the Home folder now located on the HDD (HDD/Users/account_name/.) Select the folder, click on Open button. Restart the computer as directed.
When the computer boots up it will now be using the Home folder located on the HDD.
Another more technical method involving the Terminal and aliases is discussed in depth here: Using OS X with an SSD plus HDD setup - Matt Gemmell. This is my preferred approach because I can select which of the Home's folders I want on the HDD and which I don't want. For example, I like to keep the Documents and Library folders on the SSD because I access their content frequently.
Be sure you retain the fully bootable system on your HDD in case you ever need it. -
There I go first mistake straight off. I was wondering how to fit my big long problem in. My fault I am sure but if anyone can help please.
Early 2008 Mac Pro Desk Top, 2 hard drives 1)snow leopard, 2)lion.
I have downloaded Mountain Lion usuing disk 1,selected no.2 as my destination, installed ok everything fine, set my startup as no.2 in preferences, switch off. Next day start up - nothing, my only way to get moving was physcally remove disk 2, and let snow leopard restart.
Reinstalled, everything fine, then same problem on restart next day, remove disk,and so on.
The mountain Lion installer remains in the snow leopard dock.
I know the problem is me, so if anyone is kind enough to be able to offer a solution it needs to be in easy speak (press button a, press button b) because I am not that savvy.
my best regards to all, and thank you.Where did you get Mountain Lion? Did you download the 4+ GB file from the App Store? If so, then I would try doing the following:
Drive Partition and Format
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your second drive on which Lion is installed (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
Install Mountain Lion
Double-click on the Mountain Lion Installer application in your Applications folder. Follow instructions to install Mountain Lion on your old Lion drive - Drive 2. When the installer finally finishes it will restart the computer automatically from Drive 2. At this point there is no need to change the Startup Disk unless you want to boot from your Snow Leopard drive.
You will startup to the Setup Assistant in which you will configure your own admin account. You can, if you want, omit that part and instead choose to migrate your Home folder and other data from the Snow Leopard drive. I would recommend you do that unless you wish to do it manually at a later time. In this case create your new admin account using the exact same username and password that you now use on your Snow Leopard system. -
External desktop drives for early 2008 Mac Pro: USB 2.0 or 3.0 question
I have an early 2008 Mac Pro 3,1 (OS 10.6.8).
I currently have a 1 TB Fantom Drive with USB 2.0 that I use for the Time Machine. I want to get the second external drive to use as a boot drive so I can install & boot from Mountain Lion to use Maya 2014 3D application software that requires the Mountain Lion OS. For all other applications, I want to stick with Snow Leopard (10.6.8), which works well for me.
Most of the searches I've done for external drives have USB 3.0. Some have USB 3.0/2.0.
Questions:
1. Will one of the USB 3.0-only external drives work with my early 2008 Mac Pro 3,1, which is only equipped for USB 2.0? If so, would I need some sort of adapter? (I realize that the speed would still be USB 2.0 speed.)
2. Or do I need to get the USB 3.0/2.0 external drive (which is more expensive)? I am assuming this would not require any adapter.
3. Will I be able to boot from the external drive with Mountain Lion?
Thanks for any help with this.
SFirst, many thanks to both Grant Bennet-Alder and The hatter for their fast responses to my questions. I really appreciate this information. Based on your suggestions I did some research in order to better understand the proposed solutions.
Grant Bennet-Alder wrote:
You can add a PCIe card to get these interfaces:
eSATA
USB-3
1. Does one need to get a separate PCIe card for each interface, or is there one PCIe card for multiple interfaces?
The hatter wrote:
Installing or cloning OS X should be done on SATA II drive bay or external and then moved to the PCIe - depends what card you buy, and some issues are with arrays (no need for system on one).
2. I went to http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_pro/faq/, which says, "By default, a single 3 Gb/s Serial ATA -- sometimes referred to as SATA 2.0 or SATA II -- hard drive is installed in the first of four bays for all models." I interpret that to mean that SATA II is a in the first bay located on my internal hard drive. Can I create a partition here and install Mountain Lion as a separate system, and then move it to a PCIe SSD?
3. Or, can I install it on my external Falcon Drive (which has a Partition Map Scheme : GUID Partition Table, and which, I believe means it is not a bootable drive). Following that installation could I then move it to the PCIe SSD and boot Mountain Lion from there?
4. Or, if partitioning is an option, can I just clone it to the Falcon Drive for backup?
My apologies for my ignorance. This is not my forte. Thanks for any help you can give. -
Early 2008 Mac Pro for home use
Hello guys,
I've been using usual Windows PCs at home (watching movies through HDMI, playing a few games - Counter Strike and random racing games), browsing internet, working in PS and Light room etc, but mostly for watching HD movies. But I was able to get myself Early 2008 Mac Pro - 10gb memory, two dual core intel xeon processors, 256 Ati Radeon graphics cards and 1tb ssd hard drive. Now I wanted to know how good is Mac Pro for home use? As I said I don't do many things with my windows based PC and wanted to switch to faster, quieter mac pro. Any opinions? How good it is as a home entertainment center?
P.S. Counter strike is available now for Mac, so I don't really care about other games.dump the 2600XT and there I would pay for a Mac Edition AMD 7950, else PC card
1TB SSD is unusual gift
even though 8 cores it is 6 yrs old and most things don't use 8 cores that much, it predates the i7-920,
USB3 has to be added if you want it or put USB3 on your LAN router is what I do.
It does not get the official nod of support from Apple for Windows 8/8.1 but it does if you want run 7 or 7 Pro (dual cpu support)
FBDIMMs have gotten better and cheaper if you want or need to, many do, often due to early death. -
Early 2008 Mac Pro + Mini Displayport?
Is there a way to upgrade the video card in an early 2008 Mac Pro to support Mini Displayport? I'd like to get the LED Display but I'd like to avoid using a DVI to Mini DisplayPort adapter in favor of simply getting a new video card.
I noticed the new 2009 Mac Pro's have NVIDIA cards that support Mini DisplayPort; will these work in an early 2008 Mac Pro? Is there any option for this?by 2nd generation mac pro, do you mean the pre - early09 version?
if so, how certain are you that this card will work on it? apple site states only early09 compatibility with no mention of prior generations. pls clarify, as i'm looking into buying a displayport card and have a mac pro of a generation right before the early 09.
i also found this alternative:
http://pcworld.about.com/od/desktops/Mini-DisplayPort-Faster-Graph.htm -
Early 2008 Mac Pro-What type of HD? Smart failing?
I have an early 2008 Mac Pro and have two hard drives in it. The main system drive is a 2TB Western Digital drive I installed about a year ago. The 2nd drive is a 1TB Seagate drive which is the original drive that came with the Mac Pro.
When looking at Disk Utility a few days ago I realized the drive is showing up in Red and it's saying that SMART is failing. I've never had this happen before and like having a warning.
First Question:
When SMART shows up as failing can it be a false alarm or is it likely a definite sign of impending hard drive failure? When this happens, does the drive frequently fail quickly or does it take awhile? The fortunate thing is I back this drive up frequently to Time Machine.
Second Question:
What SATA speed does the Mac Pro handle? I see many hard drives that are 3.0GB/s and some that are 6.0GB/s. Does the Mac Pro handle the faster 6.0GB/s? If not, would they still work but just not at the additional speed?
I may consider upgrading to a 1.5TB or 2TB but figured I'll go with a Western Digital or Seagate drive. I see cache ranging from 16MB to 64MB and speeds at 5400RPM and 7200RPM. Between these two which is more important, large cache size or RPM's?
Thank you for your help.Run WD Lifeguard (*Windows program or their ISO you burn to CD) is best and almost only reliable way.
If a drive has started to use spare blocks it is gone.
IT DOES NOT MATTER. Any 3.5" SATA drive is a drive is all SATA and mostly about features and specs. So just buy the newest size you need. 64MB cache and 7.2K (Green can have trouble on Macs and are more for backup and storing movies etc).
I recommend WD 10K VR newest 250GB 200MB/sec for system $152, and WD Black or Hitachi.
http://www.macperformanceguide.com likes 2-3-4TB.
Questions like this get asked unfortunately.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3908030?tstart=0
For every drive, you want to have multiple backup sets (clone and Tm) because drives and backups do fail and you want an alternate boot drive and to restore when needed. -
Early 2008 Mac Pro - ATI 4870 - Apple 30'' Monitor - SL .... Does it work?
I have an early 2008 Mac Pro with a ATI 2600XT on an Apple 30" Cinema Display. I want to upgrade the video card to take advantage of the new features of Snow Leopard.
Before I take the plunge on buying the ATI 4870 I want to make sure there are no issues with this configuration... Does anyone have an experience with this setup? any issues? ( I assume I will not need to load the drivers since SL should have them)
Also how is the noise level of the ATI 4870? is the GTX card better in this regards?
Thanks in advance,Other than benchtests and synthetic, there are no OpenCL aware or optimized apps out there. So it is a non-starter I think.
There are performance tests and depends on what you prefer and type of work. Some places the GTX is better and more RAM might help. The $100 is the other factor.
The ATI X1900 and 2600 and 3870 didn't look that good to my eye and I use the 8800GT, shame it was dropped, it was a nice card (just needed better $189 price, but that is true of the X1900 ($89?) and others. I think $349 is way too much for 4870 512MB. Flash PC.
Barefeats has OpenCL TEST in Snow L.
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