Mid2009 SSD in new mac
Hello
my mid-2009 Macbook Air 13'' froze while upgrading to OS X Lion. After 5 Minutes therefore pressed the reset button. However, when I tried to restart it nothing happend. I can hear the ventilation but it doesn't even attempt to boot.
I therefore contacted a certified reseller. They tried to get a 'new' 2009-board, however, it seems not to be availabe anymore. Instead they offered me a new MacBook Air. The problem: it won't be able to use/read my old SSD, i.e. all my data gets lost. That's not an option for me: I need my data.
Any idea on how to recover the data from my old SSD?
Many thanks for your Help!
Thorsten
Two ideas: 1) Contact OWC. They sell an external enclosures for some Apple SSDs and I believe yours is supported. 2) An authorized repair site should be able to access the data and transfer it to your computer.
Similar Messages
-
hello,
looking into purchasing an ssd for soon arriving mac pro.
already purchased a 16g memory and a 2T HHD upgrade.
i came across the speed tests for ssd on start up and the ssd's seems pretty impressive. (OWC site)
I'm going to be using the new mac pro primarily for processing landscape photograpy.
PS5, LR5, autopan pro and the nik software are the programs that i wil be running most ot the time.
files sizes sometimes reach 1+g.
Question.
If i install a new SSD, probably a 120G Mercury Electra from OWC in one of my bays what should be on it? Just OS?
I have a 1T HHD that came with the MPro and I have another 2T HHD that I purchased for photo storage.
Not quite sure how the two different types of HD's will work together from a speed standpoint
Very new to this so any thoughts or suggestions would be welcome.
Thank you.
OwenSome folks buy themselves an SSD thinking they are going to get a great a performance boost. But the boost they get by only adding an SSD is that Applications launch faster, and not much else.
If you want a bigger boost, and a boost across the board, move the user files off, leaving only System, Applications, Library, and the hidden unix files behind on the Boot Drive. Mac OS X is hugely over-configured on main memory. It is incessantly going back to the Boot Drive for a little of this, a little of that, and it moves the drive heads away from the data files you want to be reading and writing. Once you are not moving the heads away from your data to pick up system stuff all the time, your data drive will get faster.
The big payback is using a Boot drive. An incremental improvement is using an especially fast spinning drive like a VelociRaptor 10K for your Boot Drive. An additional incremental improvement is using an SSD for your Boot drive.
If you just add an SSD, but do not segregate the System, etc on its own drive, you pay top dollar for launching Applications faster. A big disappointment.
japamac's Blog: Make Space for performance -- Moving the home folder -
Is there a 3. party ssd 1tb on the market,
which fits in the new mac pro?
Greetings,
aboHelios2 Thunderbolt2 with multiple PCIe 2.x controllers and SSDs 20Gb/sec
http://www.macperformanceguide.com/blog/2014/20140324_1-Helios2-and-128GB.html
Price on Samsung 840 EVO 1TB is nice. Eventually look for PCIe based SSD the same as found internally capable of 1.2Gb and probably more, Samsung intends to have retail kits in 2014.
With a couple SSDs and controllers you should be able to quite nicely. -
Help! Can't install SSD in my new Mac Mini Server (2012)
Previously I've purcahsed Mac Mini servers and removed one of the two drives, replacing it with an OWC SSD. The hardware change was not hard to do and resulted in incredibly good computers for my employees to use which allowed us to retire several old, slow and abandoned-by-Apple Mac Pros. There were no issues with reformatting the computers after they had SSDs put in.
Today I took delivery of a new Mac Mini server, and started to do the same thing, removing the top HDD and sliding in my SSD, since I have many of them around. Unfortunately, the OS would NOT let me format the disks separately or remove the RAID. The volumes (the original 1 TB that was inside and my 480GB SSD) were both colored red when I booted into Internet Restore mode and ran Disk Util, something I've never seen before, and all it would do was say "there was a problem with your disk, would you like to revert it to a working state?" which in this case means Disk Util forcing my drives back into a RAID whether I want them that way or not. (At one point it fused my SSD and the 1TB drive into a single logical drive that had the correct size but didn't show separate sections, and couldn't be de-RAIDED at all, even when I connected to another computer with the Mac Mini in Firewire target mode.)
I gave up and put a 240 SSD in the lower bay, resulting in a 760GB RAID of two mismatched SSD sizes, which isn't what I wanted but I guess it will do. So far it seems to be working.
My question is, why in the heck is Apple forcing me to run my computers as a RAID and/or not letting me break the system into one hard drive and one RAID, which is what I want? (Having the backup disk right inside the computer is very handy.) Is this some feature to keep us from "making our own" Fusion drives? If Apple is deciding we can't hack or do anything interesting with Mac Minis, this will the last one I purchase, and I'm sure there will be others who do the same.
Since replacing one HDD with an SDD is likely to be the most popular mode imaginable for Mac Minis, can anyone tell me if they got a similar setup to work, and if so what did you do? Can you post the steps here for others who will be in this situation?I'm not sure how or what is different between the Standard 2012 Mac Mini and the 2012 Server...? However it looks like your Server also uses Fusion like or similar to the regular Mac Mini's.
"The version of Disk Utility that comes with Fusion Drive is unique. Earlier versions of Disk Utility can't be used with a Fusion Drive."
Have a look at > Mac mini (Late 2012) and iMac (Late 2012): About Fusion Drive
and > Special Note for Adding an SSD to a 2012 Mac mini. | Other World Computing Blog -
Hi I have just bought a new Mac Book Pro 15" Retina display with 256 SSD and 8G RAM. I had my info transferred form my Previous Mac Book Pro late 2011 to this machine. When trying to download Mavericks it says it cannot be loaded onto this machine? Strange as I have just downloaded Pages, Numbers and Keynote...free? Thanks and Regards
BrianWelcome to Apple Support Communities
You already have got OS X Mavericks installed (the Keynote, Pages and Numbers versions available in the Mac App Store are only compatible with OS X Mavericks).
You have got a Late 2013 MacBook Pro, which uses a special OS X Mavericks version that is not available in the Mac App Store. This is the reason why the Mac App Store is not compatible with OS X Mavericks even if you are using it. This will be fixed in OS X 10.9.1, when your Mac uses the same Mavericks version as all other Macs.
Until then, you can reinstall OS X through OS X Recovery > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718 -
Is a SSD drive for a new Mac Pro "worth it"?
I will be purchasing a new Mac Pro quad-core in the next month or so. My computer usage, other than email and some word processing, consists primarily of editing RAW photo files using Nikon Capture NX2, Photoshop Elements, and iPhoto. I do almost nothing with video. Would a SSD boot drive offer me any significant advantage over a 1 TB hard drive? Would it appreciably speed up photo editing of the RAW files, or simply boot faster? If you do recommend one, what size would I need for a boot drive to contain the OS and all program software? I will be upgrading from my current G5, so I suspect anything will initially seem very fast. Thanks!
It depends on just how dependent on disk I/O your software is. Hard drives are still, by far, the slowest link in the performance chain for a computer. If your software is primarily CPU bound and goes to the hard drive very little, you won't notice the benefits of an SSD that much. I use Apple's Aperture, and Aperture is VERY sensitive to disk speed for the volume where your library file is. There are several key databases in the library package that are extremely sensitive to disk performance and particularly file fragmentation.
I have an OWC Mercury Extreme SSD that I use for my operating system and applications, and then I have a RAID 0 of three Western Digital Hard drives for my Aperture library. RAID 0 is striping with no parity. Since there is no parity and no protection from hardware failure, I back up with TimeMachine, manual copies and I also use Mozy.com for automatic offline backups.
The machine boots nearly instantly, and application launching is extremely fast. Most programs show a definite improvement and overall I am very pleased with the configuration.
However, Aperture's library databases are extremely prone to fragmentation. There is a noticeable and significant increase in performance every time I defrag my aperture volume with iDefrag, and if I have a really long editing session I can notice performance degrading over time.
Right now my workflow with Aperture is pretty sporadic, so defragmenting routinely isn't that big of an issue. However, I anticipate getting into Aperture more as I start photographing more projects. I think if that happens, I will probably get a second SSD and also finally convert my Aperture library from managed to referenced. Apple has added features in Aperture 3 so that referenced libraries aren't that big of a PITA, so I should be able to keep the Aperture databases on the SSD and reference my masters on my RAID drive. Best of all worlds.
Also do not buy the SSD from Apple. Right now the only viable SSD's are ones that do internal garbage collection like the OWC Mercury Extreme. See my other post here for the ups and downs of SSDs:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11248829� -
I just purchased a new SSD for my mac and I wanted to do a fresh/clean install on the SSD, like if my Macbook just came out of the box. How do I do that?
Install Mavericks, Lion/Mountain Lion Using Internet Recovery
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
Boot to the Internet Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND-OPTION- R keys until a globe appears on the screen. Wait patiently - 15-20 minutes - until the Recovery main menu appears.
Partition and Format the hard drive:
1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
2. After DU loads select your newly installed hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. 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. Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion. Mavericks: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks and click on the Install button. Be sure to select the correct drive to use if you have more than one.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet
if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
This will install the version of OS X that originally came with your model if you have a model that supports Internet Recovery - 2010 models and later: Computers that can be upgraded to use OS X Internet Recovery. -
New Mac Pro - won't boot up with SSD drives attached
I have a new Mac Pro. It came with the stock 1TB HD. I installed two OWC SSD drives in the two optical drive bays. I booted up and the MacPro saw the two new drives. I set up the two new drives into a RAID0 setup with Disk Utility which worked fine. Then I cloned the 'Macintosh HD' drive so that I could use the two new SSDs as my boot drive.
When I removed the stock 1TB drive the machine will not boot up. I am stuck on the gray startup screen and it never even makes it to the Apple logo.
Even worse, when I reconnect the stock 1TB drive the machine will still not boot up if either or both of the SSD drives are connected. When I remove the SSD drives the machine boots fine.
Very weird - must be some weird RAID stuff going on.
Any ideas?
DavidHi dschamis
Just out of interest, what application did you use to clone from your HDD to the OWC SSD?
I had the same problem, but I was using only one SSD, when I cloned from a VelociRaptor 300GB HDD to an OCZ Agility EX SSD in December 2009.
The SSD "bricked", and when I contacted OCZ they told me that they did not recommend cloning from a HDD to a SSD. In fact they definitely advised against doing so.
I had used SuperDuper to clone from the HDD to the SSD.
When I received the replacement SSD ( OCZ sent me their top of their range Vertex EX), I didn't take any chances, and I did a clean install of the Mac OS and all my applications.
Everything was 100% OK, and I have not had a single problem with the SSD since then, but I never clone to it or from it. I just use Time Machine to back up to a WD My Book SE II 2T external drive, but I do have the original 640GB Apple (WD) HDD as a backup/emergency system boot drive in an external enclosure.
I have just ordered, and received, an OWC MercuryExtreme Pro RE SSD, which I will be using as my system boot drive solely for my photography related applications, and I will use the Vertex EX for the remainder of my applications.
However, I am not even going to risk using SuperDuper to clone the OS or any of the applications from the Vertex EX to the OWC SSD, although OCZ said it was OK to clone from SSD to SSD, and I will do a clean install of the Mac OS and the photography related applications on the Mercury Extreme Pro RE SSD.
Hope all goes well when you receive your replacement SSD.
If in doubt do a clean install of the Mac OS!
Regards,
Bill -
I have a new Mac Pro (2014) with latest updates. Any time I use my SSD it randomly restarts itself. Could be doiing anythign as simple as transfering one file or something like multi-track recording audio. The drive is Kingston SSDNOW KC300. (SSD is formated OS Extended) I am using a Apricorn SSD to USB adapter.
Here is the report from the last time it crashed.
Anonymous UUID: 8BFA63CF-2AE6-F768-7326-62E3CE1C1761
Sun Jun 1 11:46:54 2014
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff801c8bc1fc): "complete() while dma active"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu- 2422.100.13/iokit/Kernel/IOMemoryDescriptor.cpp:2620
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff81a70fbc10 : 0xffffff801c422fa9
0xffffff81a70fbc90 : 0xffffff801c8bc1fc
0xffffff81a70fbcd0 : 0xffffff7f9c9f9b06
0xffffff81a70fbd10 : 0xffffff7f9c9efab2
0xffffff81a70fbd60 : 0xffffff7f9ce3a2ca
0xffffff81a70fbdb0 : 0xffffff7f9ce3dc3a
0xffffff81a70fbe00 : 0xffffff7f9ca870d4
0xffffff81a70fbe50 : 0xffffff7f9ca8114e
0xffffff81a70fbea0 : 0xffffff7f9ca8121c
0xffffff81a70fbed0 : 0xffffff7f9ee64309
0xffffff81a70fbf20 : 0xffffff801c44a23a
0xffffff81a70fbfb0 : 0xffffff801c4d7127
Kernel Extensions in backtrace: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(1.9)[9B09B065-7F11-3241-B194-
B72E5C23548B]@0xffffff7f9c9ec000->0xffffff7f9ca10fff com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(3.6.6)[C7B04E3E-37FF-3DC4-A0ED-
92DDCE6FCB98]@0xffffff7f9ca7c000->0xffffff7f9caa6fff com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice(3.6.6)[160F02BC-97C1-3119-BD28-
4B2ED121C501]@0xffffff7f9ce39000->0xffffff7f9ce4dfff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(3.6.6)[C7B04E3E-37FF-3DC4-A0ED-
92DDCE6FCB98]@0xffffff7f9ca7c000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(1.9)[9B09B065-7F11-3241-B194-
B72E5C23548B]@0xffffff7f9c9ec000 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBAttachedSCSI(1.0.5)[56C0DC48-4C2F-3446-BDB2-
4861962FF5EE]@0xffffff7f9ee61000->0xffffff7f9ee68fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(677.4.0)[7B660BA0-DC2C-3B67-9156-
A9E8F9CC783F]@0xffffff7f9cf57000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(1.9)[9B09B065-7F11-3241-B194-
B72E5C23548B]@0xffffff7f9c9ec000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(3.6.6)[C7B04E3E-37FF-3DC4-A0ED-
92DDCE6FCB98]@0xffffff7f9ca7c000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version: 13D65
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 13.2.0: Thu Apr 17 23:03:13 PDT 2014; root:xnu-2422.100.13~1/RELEASE_X86_64 Kernel UUID: ADD73AE6-88B0-32FB-A8BB-4F7C8BE4092E
Kernel slide: 0x000000001c200000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff801c400000
System model name: MacPro6,1 (Mac-F60DEB81FF30ACF6)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 8403008164822
last loaded kext at 264116866947: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBAttachedSCSI 1.0.5 (addr 0xffffff7f9ee61000, size 49152)
last unloaded kext at 352919208203: com.apple.driver.AppleUSBCDC 4.2.1b5 (addr 0xffffff7f9ee5d000, size 16384)
loaded kexts:
com.audinate.dante.driver.DanteVirtualSoundcard 0.9.3
com.audinate.dante.driver.DanteVirtualSoundcard 0.9.3 com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard 5.9.1 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBAttachedSCSI 1.0.5 com.apple.filesystems.smbfs 2.0.2
com.apple.filesystems.msdosfs 1.9 com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch 80.14 com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager 4.2.4f1 com.apple.filesystems.autofs 3.0
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC 1.60
com.apple.driver.AGPM 100.14.15 com.apple.driver.ApplePlatformEnabler 2.0.9d1 com.apple.driver.X86PlatformShim 1.0.0 com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsDevicePolicy 3.5.26 com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient 3.5.13 com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl 1.1.12 com.apple.driver.AppleHDA 2.6.1f2
com.apple.kext.AMDFramebuffer 1.2.2
com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet 1.0.0d1 com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X 7.0.0 com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport 4.2.4f1 com.apple.AMDRadeonX4000 1.2.2
com.apple.driver.AppleHWAccess 1
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC 1.7.0
com.apple.kext.AMD7000Controller 1.2.2 com.apple.driver.AppleMGPUPowerControl 3.5.26 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelMCEReporter 104 com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltIP 1.1.2
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBODD 3.4.1
com.apple.driver.Oxford_Semi 3.4.1 com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeDataless 1.0.0d1 com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib 1.0.0d1 com.apple.BootCache 35
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient 3.6.6 com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI 5.0.2 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub 666.4.0 com.apple.driver.XsanFilter 404 com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage 2.5.1 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBXHCI 677.4.0 com.apple.iokit.AppleBCM5701Ethernet 3.8.1b2 com.apple.driver.AirPort.Brcm4360 831.21.63 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI 660.4.0 com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort 3.0.0 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons 2.0 com.apple.driver.AppleRTC 2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC 2.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET 1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS 2.1
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC 1.7 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient 217.92.1 com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall 153 com.apple.security.quarantine 3 com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement 217.92.1 com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothHIDKeyboard 170.15 com.apple.driver.AppleHIDKeyboard 170.15 com.apple.driver.IOBluetoothHIDDriver 4.2.4f1 com.apple.driver.AppleMultitouchDriver 245.13
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.7
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily 10.0.7
com.apple.kext.triggers 1.0 com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController 1.0.11d1 com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib 2.6.1f2
com.apple.vecLib.kext 1.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBAudio 2.9.5f4 com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily 1.9.7fc2 com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib 1.14 com.apple.iokit.IOSurface 91.1 com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily 4.2.4f1 com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothHostControllerUSBTransport 4.2.4f1 com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily 98.20 com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP 2.2.6 com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController 2.6.1f2 com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily 2.6.1f2 com.apple.kext.AMDSupport 1.2.2 com.apple.AppleGraphicsDeviceControl 3.5.26 com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl 3.5.26 com.apple.driver.AppleBacklightExpert 1.0.4 com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport 2.4.1 com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily 2.4.1 com.apple.driver.X86PlatformPlugin 1.0.0 com.apple.driver.AppleSMC 3.1.8 com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily 5.7.0d11 com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice 3.6.6 com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily 1.7 com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily 1.7.1 com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily 1.7.1 com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIReducedBlockCommandsDevice 3.6.6 com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolTransport 2.5.1 com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireSBP2 4.2.6 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub 650.4.0 com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIBlockCommandsDevice 3.6.6 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass 3.6.0 com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily 3.6.6 com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite 656.4.1 com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltPCIUpAdapter 1.4.5 com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltDPInAdapter 3.1.7 com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltDPAdapterFamily 3.1.7 com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltPCIDownAdapter 1.4.5 com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily 4.5.5 com.apple.driver.AppleThunderboltNHI 2.0.1 com.apple.iokit.IOThunderboltFamily 3.2.7 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBUserClient 660.4.2 com.apple.iokit.IOEthernetAVBController 1.0.3b4 com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family 630.35 com.apple.driver.mDNSOffloadUserClient 1.0.1b5 com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily 3.2 com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily 677.4.0 com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIFamily 2.6.5 com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM 2.0 com.apple.iokit.IOHIDFamily 2.0.0 com.apple.driver.AppleEFIRuntime 2.0 com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily 1.1 com.apple.security.sandbox 278.11
com.apple.kext.AppleMatch 1.0.0d1 com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 7
com.apple.security.TMSafetyNet 7 com.apple.driver.AppleKeyStore 2 com.apple.driver.DiskImages 371.1 com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily 1.9 com.apple.iokit.IOReportFamily 23 com.apple.driver.AppleFDEKeyStore 28.30 com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform 2.0 com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily 2.9 com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily 1.4 com.apple.kec.pthread 1 com.apple.kec.corecrypto 1.0
Model: MacPro6,1, BootROM MP61.0116.B05, 6 processors, 6-Core Intel Xeon E5, 3.5 GHz, 12 GB, SMC 2.20f18
Graphics: AMD FirePro D300, AMD FirePro D300, PCIe, 2048 MB
Graphics: AMD FirePro D300, AMD FirePro D300, PCIe, 2048 MB
Memory Module: DIMM1, 4 GB, DDR3 ECC, 1867 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x484D54343531553741465238432D52442020
Memory Module: DIMM2, 4 GB, DDR3 ECC, 1867 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x484D54343531553741465238432D52442020
Memory Module: DIMM3, 4 GB, DDR3 ECC, 1867 MHz, 0x80AD, 0x484D54343531553741465238432D52442020
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x135), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (6.30.223.154.63)
Bluetooth: Version 4.2.4f1 13674, 3 services, 23 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Ethernet 2, Ethernet, en1
Network Service: Ethernet 1, Ethernet, en0
PCI Card: AMD FirePro D300, Display Controller, Slot-1
PCI Card: AMD FirePro D300, Display Controller, Slot-2
PCI Card: pci11c1,5901, IEEE 1394 Open HCI, Thunderbolt@237,0,0
PCI Card: pci1b21,612, AHCI Controller, Thunderbolt@81,0,0
Serial ATA Device: APPLE SSD SM0256F, 251 GB
Serial ATA Device: ST3000DM001-1CH166, 3 TB
USB Device:
USB Device:
USB Device:
USB Device:
USB Device:
USB Device:
USB Device:
USB Device:
USB Device:
USB Device:
USB Device:
FireWire Device: LaCie d2 Extreme LUN 0, LaCie Group SA, Up to 800 Mb/sec
FireWire Device: LaCie d2 Extreme LUN 0, LaCie Group SA, Up to 800 Mb/sec
Thunderbolt Bus: Mac Pro, Apple Inc., 19.2
Thunderbolt Device: d2, LaCie, 3, 7.4
Thunderbolt Bus: Mac Pro, Apple Inc., 19.2
Thunderbolt Bus: Mac Pro, Apple Inc., 19.2
Thunderbolt Device: Thunderbolt to FireWire Adapter, Apple Inc., 3, 5.6
Hub
BRCM20702 Hub
Bluetooth USB Host Controller Apple USB SuperDrive USB2.0 Hub
USB2.0 Hub
iLok
eLicenser
Scarlett 18i8 USB
DesktopPlease read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It’s unlikely to solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
The purpose of the test is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party software that loads automatically at startup or login, by a peripheral device, by a font conflict, or by corruption of the file system or of certain system caches.
Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards, if applicable. Start up in safe mode and log in to the account with the problem. You must hold down the shift key twice: once when you turn on the computer, and again when you log in.
Note: If FileVault is enabled, or if a firmware password is set, or if the startup volume is a Fusion Drive or a software RAID, you can’t do this. Ask for further instructions.
Safe mode is much slower to start up and run than normal, with limited graphics performance, and some things won’t work at all, including sound output and Wi-Fi on certain models. The next normal startup may also be somewhat slow.
The login screen appears even if you usually login automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
Test while in safe mode. Same problem?
After testing, restart as usual (not in safe mode) and verify that you still have the problem. Post the results of the test. -
i have a old imac running Lion. I just bought a new Mac mini and separatly a Samsung ssd to install in said mini. Both are arriving today. What would be the best order in which to upgrade from lion to Mavericks. Since the mini comes with Mavericks freshly on I'm trying to figure out how to preserve that freshness although since I would be starting off with coming from a time machine backup is that even possible. So... What order should I do all this
1. Should I clone the minis hd to the ssd first then restore from the time machine backup
Or
2. Fire up the mini first restoring from the TM Backup then clone the ssd
Lastly if I am coming from and old OS to new one on a new machine will It upgrade at the same time it takes the TM Backup or will it just restore to the TM backup of lion then I'll have to reinstall Mavericks
Thanks allThe way I did it was to fire up first and use TM to migrate my old files to be sure all is working correctly. Then I used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the HD to my SSD mounted externally. Then I option booted from the external SSD to be sure all was OK. Then I swapped out the drives internally.
-
Adobe Creative Cloud - has anybody had any luck running Adobe CC on a new mac mini? Does it run slow for Photoshop?
Adobe CC applications are very large and the base Mac mini isn't a good choice because it has only 4GB of RAM and has a slow standard hard drive. To get the most out of ACC you should upgrade the mini to at least 8GB. I'd also choose an SSD or Fusion drive for better performance.
-
Startup Disk issue in new Mac Air. Replaced with another new mac, then again. MS Excel culprit?
Hey guys, I bought a macbook Air 11’ 4GB 128GB (Mid-2011(after selling my 13” macbook pro) and the problems seem to be never ending.
My primary work involves using MS Excel so I installed a licensed version of Office for Mac 2011 and started using excel on my new mac machine. Within few minutes I got a message pop-up on screen “YOUR MAC OS STARTUP DISK HAS NO MORE SPACE AVAILABLE FOR APPLICATION MEMORY”.
I checked the size of storage and there was just 5 GBs worth space left despite the fact that there was not a single photo, music, video on the new mac apart from a few MBs of excel files. I took it to the vendor (APPLE PREMIUM RESELLER) who after re-installing lion returned it to me and the same issue again popped up. Finally, they diagnosed an SSD problem and after a week of waiting, I was given a brand new shiny macbook air MC969 (same model).
I used the new one and again while using excel, the same issue has come up. I’m really fed up of this stupid error bcoz I was using the same OFFICE FOR MAC suite on my macbook pro and never suffered any such problem. I have also twice thrice completed all the steps I was told to do (like repair disk perm. Emptying the cache etc. )
Since India doesn’t have any Apple owned stores but only Premium Resellers whose replacement etc policies are not governed by Apple.
They do not even refund the money but have given an option of diagnosing the machine and replacing the problematic part.
I googled the web and found no such issued with EXCEL. Strangely, other apps in the office suite seem to work well without any issues.
I have attached the screenshots that how while using excel, within a couple of minutes, mac starts to heat up, then storage decreases and finally the error where mac becomes dead slow.
Please help me to determine where the cause lies.The Excel files size range between 29KB to 60KB.
That's it.
I called up the reseller and he said that the replacement period is now over and mac would only be repaired.
I dont want my Mac to get unscrewed -
What is the best way to set up my new Mac Pro?
Not wanting to screw up in a process I've not done with a brand new machine before, I'm looking for feedback on my plan for setting my new Mac Pro next week...
The physical plan is this:
For RAM, I have four 2GB SDRAM's plus the supplied six 1GB modules. My plan here is to install the 2GB rams into the first four slots and install four of the 1GB modules into the remaining four slots for a total of 12GB's.
When the cost for 4GB modules gets down to reasonable, I'll buy four of them and bump the current rams down the line which will then give me a total of 24 gigs where I'll stay.
For my hard drives, I'm installing a 160GB Intel X25-M into the first drive bay
http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/mainstream/index.htm
using one of MaxUpgrades' 'MaxConnects' kits. I will use this drive for the operating system software and my applications and their libraries.
Next, into the remaining three drive bays, I am installing three 300GB WD Velociraptors. Mine are the pre-'backplane ready' versions:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=459
so I have bought these sleds for them...
http://www.maxupgrades.com/istore/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&product_i d=180
I own one of Sonnet's Tempo SATA E4P cards
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/temposatae4p.html
which, thanks to this forum, I now understand, with the correct firmware installed, function well so I will install it and be able to establish hardware RAID. I will create a RAID 0 set with the three Velociraptors and use it to store all of my data files.
Backup will happen on a 1TB WD 'Caviar Black' external drive connected through one of the Sonnet card's external eSATA ports and using the OS 'Time Machine' software.
And that's the physical plan. My question is about setting things up. The physical installation part is straight forward and I don't expect any difficulties but I'm wondering what is the best way to install the operating system.
Do I take a first step keeping the supplied hard drive installed, install the solid state drive into the next drive bay and then transfer the contents from the supplied drive onto the SSD or do I do the complete physical installation process and do a 'C' drive start up and install the OS that way?
And, do you have any tips/suggestions on setting up the RAID 0 set?
thanks for the help. I want to do this right.
JQoh mighty Hatter, I knew you'd have helpful guidance to offer! And thank you. You've confirmed my anxieties about the Sonnet card; kind of a 'too much, too quickly' sort of thing. And it's not that Sonnet's not a good company. Just everything to do with new technologies and the growth curve we all, manufacturers and users, go through when they come out. And, for sure, the new Mac Pro's are new technology; the single biggest forward leap in Apple's top-of-the-line machines for some time far as I can tell. Just reading at Intel's website about the Nehalem's is a joy!
So, I will proceed now with everything except for the controller card, leaving that 'til later. In the meantime, I think I'll just happily run with the four hard drives all running independently. No software RAID. I know just those, the SSD boot drive plus Velociraptor trio's going inside of a 2.66ghz 8-core Nehalem Mac Pro is going to be a working pleasure. Heck, this way, I'll get settled in and used to the machine's speed, have a great time doing so and then, in however many months, I can jump into spending another chunk of money on an excellent RAID card, RAID card's dear Barefeats will have tested and reviewed for us, set up my RAID 0 set and head of to those new races watching my computer leap for joy! Could be that, by then, the cost of Intel 160GB X25-M's will have dropped enough that I can afford to go for a second and have a two SSD RAID 0 boot drive... Yummy!
Thanks for the help. Like I say, I knew there was useful guidance hanging on some limb within your personal kit, (otherwise referred to as your mind)!
Interesting to read about the problems people have had with Sonnet's 2.17 update in PPC's... In this computer, my PowerMac G5 dual 2.7ghz, I have a Sonnet 'Tempo Sata X4P' controller card. I downloaded and installed 2.17 and got the same troubles; no cut, no paste, no 'drag and drop' etc. It was miserable.
Mine, fortunately, magically corrected after running the 'permissions verify and correct' process in Disc Utility and, after a restart, all was back to almost normal but for one exception; the Sonnet card was no longer present or functioning including the four eSATA ports out the back. (I ran Tech Tools Pro 5's repair suites first but, and who knows why, it didn't correct the problem...) This one was absolutely in the 'who knows what the f_'s going on and why it disappeared but did' class.
Oh, the other remnant is that, when the computer goes into sleep, after about five minutes, the fans rev up, and up, and the computer's frozen; only access is to do a forced shutdown pressing and holding the power button, so I've had to adopt a 'shut down whenever leaving it for more than fifteen minutes' approach to this dear friend. Once I've fully moved into and established my new one (which should arrive today, by the way... Yippeee!!! Can't wait!), I'll do a complete restoration on this one including taking out the Sonnet card. Usually, I sell my old Pro's but, this time, I'm going to keep this one as a back up and just general second computer for times I might need it. It has been such a great and dependable machine. Keeping it seems the right thing to do.
thanks Hatter. I'll let you know how things go, including what happens with the SSD. I don't have speed test software so I won't be able to track it's performance like that guy in the post you gave me did...
JQ
ps- Gotta love that ILLogic fellow eh? Talk about not getting the essence! -
Take 45s to boot a brand new Mac Pro
Hi Mac Pro folks
I just got a brand new Mac Pro running Mountain Lion. It came with a 512MB SSD as the boot disk and a 2TB disk as the second drive. What I got confused is: after powering it on, the Mac Pro takes average 45s to boot to the white screen with an Apple logo.
This is actually the second Mac Pro, the previous one having the same configuration took 30 seconds to boot. As the previous one's second drive got clicking sound from the first day, Apple replaced the whole machine. Now the clicking sound has gone, but the second Mac Pro takes an even longer time to boot from SSD.
Is it normal? Has anyone ever experienced the same thing?
Thanks for any comments.
Regards,
BIt should be Apple genuine SSD, as the 512 MB SSD comes with the new Mac Pro. Please see below its information retreived from System Report. TRIM Support is enabled.
Intel ICH10 AHCI:
Vendor: Intel
Product: ICH10 AHCI
Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
Negotiated Link Speed: 3 Gigabit
Description: AHCI Version 1.20 Supported
APPLE SSD SM512E:
Capacity: 500.28 GB (500,277,790,720 bytes)
Model: APPLE SSD SM512E
Revision: CXM07A1Q
Native Command Queuing: Yes
Queue Depth: 32
Removable Media: No
Detachable Drive: No
BSD Name: disk0
Medium Type: Solid State
TRIM Support: Yes
Bay Name: Bay 1
Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table)
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Volumes:
disk0s1:
Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
BSD Name: disk0s1
Content: EFI
MACPRO_SSD:
Capacity: 499.42 GB (499,418,034,176 bytes)
Available: 175.82 GB (175,817,490,432 bytes)
Writable: Yes
File System: Journaled HFS+
BSD Name: disk0s2
Mount Point: /
Content: Apple_HFS
Recovery HD:
Capacity: 650 MB (650,002,432 bytes)
BSD Name: disk0s3
Content: Apple_Boot
This is a Mac Pro 5,1 so I would expect it should take less than 10 seconds to boot.
Moreover, the SSD is the only startup device under Startup Disk.
It seems the only PCI card is the ATI Radeon HD 5770 that comes with the system.
ATI Radeon HD 5770:
Name: ATY,Hoolock
Type: Display Controller
Driver Installed: Yes
MSI: Yes
Bus: PCI
Slot: Slot-1
Vendor ID: 0x1002
Device ID: 0x68b8
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x106b
Subsystem ID: 0x00cf
Revision ID: 0x0000
Link Width: x16
Link Speed: 5.0 GT/s
The hatter wrote:
Probably trying to use a 512MB boot device?
No it should take 10 seconds. That is what my SSD on Mac Pro 1,1.
PCIe cards can affect booting, especially if you boot from one.
3rd party SSD or not? \
firmware is current?
SSD is set to default startup disk control panel?
You've done ML Recovery and checked the SSD twice: the top of the drive to check partitions, the user volume to check the system directory.
If it is 3rd party what make?
Does it show TRIM is enabled in SATA entry in System Profile?
What else is installed.
Does not sound normal to me to replace anything except the hard drive for clicking, and then to just zero the drive.
I would never pay for disk drive from Apple when there are better prices and as good devices. -
Getting new Mac for Aperture and have a question...
I totally realize that this is a personal preference with no "wrong" way to do it. However, I would appreciate some thoughts so I can form a better idea of how I will set up an Aperture workflow that will work for me for a long time and how to configure my new iMac.
I use the referenced library workflow and store both my masters and Aperture library on my current internal drive with both backed up to externals. I'm getting a new Mac with the SSD drive for apps and OS (and Aperture library as well). The question is, should I get the mega 2 TB internal HDD along with that SSD for all my masters (which would also include my music and home-made movies)?
My current photo storage adds up to only 130GB right now and grows slowly. I don't even think I would double that in the next year. I realize that if I had, say, a 1.5 TB size Masters library, the the answer would be obvious that I would need to store externally because the iMac HDD isn't big enough. But that isn't my situation.
But since I would be able to fit all my photos on an internal HDD (2TB) to use as referenced, is there a better reason to skip the internal 2TB HDD and just get hooked up with some good, high-speed external system and stick with an internal SSD to just handle the OS, music, and apps? In other words, all my media (photos and movies) would always be stored AND edited from an external drive (I will actually edit on the SSD and then move the referenced files to the external). This means that from now on all new Macs I ever get will only need a moderate sized SSD for OS and apps. I would basicallt forever keep all things media on externals.
I hope this makes sense. Thanks for any help with this.jbshanks wrote:
One other thing... the only way for me to get a 1GB VRAM now is to buy the top-of-the-line iMac. That's the issue.
I've seen that also. That's why I added the "If you can wait.." statement.
If you need to purchase before say late October, then the specs you list for the 21" iMac are quite good and the possibility of developers designing GPU threads that require caching in the VRAM may or may not need amounts beyond 512 MB. The fact that Apple offers an upgrade to the 2 GB VRAM video adapter on their high-end machine tells me that they know that the Pro Apps will be able to take advantage of that amount (not that it is necessary for the enthusiast looking to have a good Aperture experience).
SierraDragon has much more experience than I with Aperture, so he may be able to shed some light on this one.
For my part, I run a 17" MacBook Pro (late 2011) which has the 2.5 Ghz i7, 8 GB Apple provided RAM, and the AMD 6770 with 1 GB VRAM. I installed an OWC 480 GB SSD and I am connected to the Apple Thunderbolt Display (because this machine only offers a Thunderbolt port to connect video signals with). Aperture runs fine on my machine (although for some reason cropping takes a couple of seconds now, where it was immediate before the AP 3.3 update). I run Photoshop CS6 and Illustrator CS6 without any issues on this machine, so it is definitely capable of running in a professional environment.
Since your specs call-out a 2.8 Ghz i7, 16+ GB RAM and an SSD, I personally would not hesitate to purchase that machine if you need to purchase soon. I just mentioned the 1 GB VRAM due to your wanting to be able to handle 4+ years of updates to the OS and software. That doesn't mean the 512 GB VRAM won't work great, just that the 1 GB VRAM would be additional insurance (sort of like Apple Care).
Maybe you are looking for
-
Status LIS9 of the User interface MP000200 missing
Hi All, While creating leaving action. System is giving error (Status LIS9 of the User interface MP000200 missing. Mentions below are my configuration. Infogroup COP 0001 Org assignment LIS9 0002 Personal Data LIS9 0006 address LIS9 0105 Communicatio
-
trying to get to this site http://otn.oracle.com/tech/xml/xmldb/demonstrations/9202_Demonstration.<font%20style='background-color:#ffff00'><b>pdf</b></font> results in this error Invalid value specified. (WWC-41409) Object not found. (WWC-50003)
-
I have been successfully using LR3 until a few hours ago. Suddenly Error messages now start to appear saying an error occurred sending this file : access is denied I have uploaded files on LR3 30 times today! without any issues I have uninstalled and
-
I have an update from 5.1 firefox but it wont down load. instead of the download bar being solid blue it looks like a blue and white barber shop horizontally that never stops
-
I created a group called sndusers and used the usermod -G sndusers <user> command to add someone to the group. This worked great, problem is once I restarted it didn't. How do I keep my user in the group? As of now I have to log out of X, type tha