Opening and using the second optical drive?

Okay, I have a dummy question about my new Mac Pro. I got it with two optical super drives. I'm burning one disc right now, but I need to know how I can burn on the second drive. I'm thinking if I click on the eject button to open the second drive, that it will open up the first instead. I probaby should know the answer to this one, but it's just not obvious to me.
Thanks ahead of time for the answer.

This is the MacBook Pro Discussion Group. I would help you but I have never owned a MacPro.

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Opening and using the second opitical drive?

Okay, I have a dummy question about my new Mac Pro. I got it with two optical super drives. I'm burning one disc right now, but I need to know how I can burn on the second drive. I'm thinking if I click on the eject button to open the second drive, that it will open up the first instead. I probaby should know the answer to this one, but it's just not obvious to me.
Thanks ahead of time for the answer.

Eject is to open your first drive, option-eject opens the second (lower) drive. The answer is also in your manual.

Can I use the 2nd Optical Drive Bay on my Mac Pro for an SSD?

Since I have no plans to add a second Optical Drive to my Mac Pro in the Second Optical Drive bay, I was wondering if I could put an SSD in that bay using a 2.5' to 3.5" drive carriage. Is this possible? Would it work? Would I be able to use it as my boot drive? Never tried this, so not sure if it would work.
Thanks in advance.

Your 2010 model has SATA wiring in that bay, so the SSD plugs right in.
Macs can boot from the drive specified in System preferences > Startup Disk.
You would need an adapter from 2.5 size of the drive to the 5.25 (CD drive) size expected, but since there are no moving parts, most folks just dump the drive in there without a bracket.
The biggest payback comes from establishing a Boot Drive with only System, Library, Applications, and the hidden Unix files including Paging/Swap. Putting the boot drive on an SSD is frosting -- it provides an incremental improvement over a spinning Boot drive.
A caution when establishing your drive -- some users have killed brand new SSD drives by cloning onto them. The manufacturers have not been helpful in telling us why this happens, but a clean Install may be a better way to proceed.

Using the second hard drive in my G5

I bought my Mac about 14 months ago with twin 250GB hard drives fitted. I wanted to use the second hard drive to store my CD collection through itunes.
I have tried to install itunes on the second hard drive but the software installer says it has to go on the startup volume. I have also tried copying my itunes folder and pasting it to the second hard drive as a backup but it won't allow this either. It says that the drive cannot be modified.
How do I use the second hard drive as intended? I upgraded to Tiger so do I need to install that on the second hard drive?
Thank you.

Hi Mike;
I have a 250 GB and a 160 GB hard drive in my Quad. A long time ago when I had much smaller drives, I did move Users to another disk because I was running out of space on my system drive. One of the problems I ran into with this was when my second drive with Users on it didn't start quickly enough for OS X. OS X created a new Users for me with nothing in it. It was a royal pain getting my system pointed back to the Users on the second drive.
What I do now is leave Users where OS X installs. I now move just my project files, music, photos and web pages. I find that this is largest part of Users. It is also the part of Users that I am the most concerned about. With all of my project files on another drive, the system is able to access data from both drives very quickly. It also makes backup simpler.
Allan

When I open iTunes on my new computer using the .itl file, and using the same external drive holding the songs, all of the songs I added to iTunes up to a certain date have broken links, while none of the songs have broken links on the old computer.

I want to open the iTunes library on my new laptop with all the playlists and stuff I built on the old computer. I have all my music on an external drive. I have copied the .itl file from the old computer and opened it on the laptop, and it has all the playlists, but all of the songs that were added to iTunes up to a certain date have broken links. What am I doing wrong?

Moving library files around while leaving the data in the same place usually presents no problems. Moving the data around independently from the library usually breaks things. With Windows machines all you should need to do is make sure that the same drive letter is being used on the new system as with the old. If that is not possible you need to get your library into a portable layout before moving it between systems.
Typical layout of iTunes folders:
When the media folder is inside the main iTunes folder as shown above then the library is portable. Typically with a split library the iTunes Music or iTunes Media folder (everything inside the red outline) is moved to a different drive by choosing a new locaton for it and then consolidating.
To make the library portable again you need to copy the library files and album artwork folder into the parent folder of the media folder so that the nested relationship is recreated. (BTW If your media isn't already inside your designated media folder then you will also need to consolidate the files that are outside of it, before you copy the library files.) You can then use the hold-down-shift-when-starting-iTunes method to open the library file in that parent folder. Once the library has been opened, tested and closed you are most of the way there.
The iTunes window inherits its title from the folder holding the library files so, unless you created a folder called iTunes to hold the media folder, iTunes may now have an unexpected title when you run it. The parent folder can be renamed as iTunes, and the library opened again. Alternatively, if the parent folder is at the root of the drive, or has other data which you wish to leave in place, you can create a new top level folder called iTunes and move the library files, album artwork and media folders into it before opening and testing the library again.
If the library doesn't work after any step simply reverse it by undoing a move or rename or opening the previous set iTunes Library.itl file.
If all has gone well then the library is now portable. Once you've migrated the data to a new system you can copy the library files back to their usual internal location if you find that having them on the external drive affects performance...
tt2

I bought Reveal Sound's Spire Synthesizer, can't open and use the plug-in nor type in my license key? Why doesn't it work?

I validated it with the Audio Units Manager and everything was successful.
Still i can't open and use it?
Im really frustrated about this. Since it cost me more than 100€ to buy this synthesizer.
I want to use it and i thought it would be simple to do, but it seems to be the hardest thing ever..
I deeply hope someone can help me!?

As you dont say what happens when you try to open it... I'm assuming you cannot find it.... which means you might be looking in the library for it and it will not be there..
1) In Logic's Prefs turn on all the advanced tools. Now Logic will work in full 'Logic Pro' mode with all features available... and not the cutdown 'Garageband Pro' mode..
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Re: How to use the second hard drive in Satellite A300?

I have been given a second hand Satellite A300 that was being thrown out due to a faulty DVD.
I fixed the DVD and have a perfect working system.
On opening the case I discovered it has 2 x 250GB hard drives. I checked CMOS and the 2 drives show. Yet, Vista only shows the one drive.
Excuse my ignorance but how do I access the second drive?

I have Satellite A300 with two hard drives and each HDD has other operating system. Both HDDs are recognized properly.
I dont know what is wrong there but both HDDs should be recognized automatically.
Try to set BIOS to default settings and check it again.
Try to start bootable Microsoft installation disc and check if both HDDs are shown in setup.
I just hope there is no some hardware problem.

Networking iMac w/ a Netbook to use the iMac optical drive

I have a new iMac and a new Netbook. The Netbook is running Windows XP, Home, SP3.
Netbooks do not come with optical drives.
I am trying to determine if it is even possible to network the two in such a way that I could access the iMac's optical drive from the Netbook in order to install software from a CD onto the Netbook.
Am I just wasting my time here or is this possible???
Anyone know?

Boot into your BIOS and see what options there are. Some can be configured to use USB CDs, USB flash drives, I have one board (not Netbook obviously) with bootable eSATA.
And check out online forum for your machine. Took me a while to find TweakTown and others that had forum for my board.

I have an older MacBook Pro using 10.4.11 and want to use new operating system to use the latest iLife. Can i install 10.7 on an external hard drive and use the external hard drive to run new system while leaving my old system intact?

I want to use a new version of iLife (for iMovie and iDVD) but am currently running OS 10.4.11, which won't work with the newer iLife programs. Can i install OS 10.6.3 or 10.7 on an external hard drive, boot to that hard drive and work with the new software (installed on the external hard drive) using my MacBook Pro (circa 2005/6) as the engine while leaving my laptop running 104.11 the rest of the time?

Yes, you can use an external drive. To upgrade, however, means:
Purchase Snow Leopard DVD then update Snow Leopard to 10.6.8.
Access the App Store with your Apple ID and purchase and download Lion.
Your computer must meet system requirements:
Snow Leopard General requirements
Mac computer with an Intel processor
1GB of memory
5GB of available disk space
DVD drive for installation
Some features require a compatible Internet service provider; fees may apply.
Some features require Apple’s MobileMe service; fees and terms apply.
Lion System Requirements
Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor
2GB of memory
OS X v10.6.6 or later (v10.6.8 recommended)
7GB of available space
Some features require an Apple ID; terms apply.
Obviously, you do not have to upgrade to Lion but can stop at Snow Leopard 10.6.8 which is sufficient for the current versions of iLife apps. Note that iDVD is no longer part of the newest version of iLife. Lion 10.7.2 or later is needed should you wish to use iCloud.

Is it better to install windows on the same mac hard drive or use the second hard drive bay as it's own? Im also using deploy studio and am having trouble creating a workflow to assign the bay.

Have mac pros with 1tb drives in tem. Trying to figure out imaging via deploy studio.

For the easist install and problem solving having W7 on it's own disk would be the best way to go.
The only thing you need to do is either take out the lower # drives ahead of the future Windows disk or put the Windows HD in bay/slot #1. (or just take out all but the future W7 disk and install it manually works too)
The easiest way would be to put the W7 drive in slot slot/bay #1 then you can still use BC Assistant to install the drivers and such.
After the install you can have the Windows drive in any slot you want.
I'm not familier with Deploy Studio so can't help you beyond this.

After updating to the latest version, I'm able to open and use the browser for one day. The next day, the browser doesn't not open up. please help!!!

-reformatted computer, reinstalled everything
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-later the next day, browser doesn't even open up
-now when i go to open mozilla, something like this shows up:
"server busy, taking too long...if your firewall is on make sure mozilla is allowed to browse...adjust proxy settings blah blah...

HI Juanverano,
Not a problem, Safe Mode will disable addons and hardware acceleration. If this continues and it is not an add on this will be the next step to try to disable acceleration:
Try disabling graphics hardware acceleration. Since this feature was added to Firefox, it has gradually improved, but there still are a few glitches.
You might need to restart Firefox in order for this to take effect, so save all work first (e.g., mail you are composing, online documents you're editing, etc.).
Then perform these steps:
#Open Firefox ''Options'' window (''Preferences'' on Mac or Linux) as follows:
#* In Firefox 29.0 and above, click the menu button [[Image:New Fx Menu]] and select ''Options'' for Windows or ''Preferences'' on Mac or Linux.
#* In Firefox 28.0 and previous versions, click the orange Firefox button at the top left, then select the "Options" button, or, if there is no Firefox button at the top, go to Tools > Options.
#In the Firefox Options (or Preferences) window, click the ''Advanced'' tab, then select ''General''.
#In the settings list, you should find the ''Use hardware acceleration when available'' checkbox. Uncheck this checkbox.
#Now, restart Firefox and see if the problems persist.
Additionally, please check for updates for your graphics driver by following the steps mentioned in the following Knowledge base articles:
* [[Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems]]
* [[Upgrade your graphics drivers to use hardware acceleration and WebGL]]
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I am using NI-CAN with Visual Basic 5.0. Opening and using the can bus works without any errors

. When I use ncCloseObject with the same object handle that I use with the other functions, I get an error. The error I get is 80010004. This is a bad parameter error. The only parameter that is used is the Object Handle. How do I eliminate the error?I am using it on a Windows 95 machine and a PCICan card. I cannot close my program and restart it again. It will not reopen the CAN port.

. When I use ncCloseObject with the same object handle that I use with the other functions, I get an error. The error I get is 80010004. This is a bad parameter error. The only parameter that is used is the Object Handle. How do I eliminate the error?Hello Vernon,
I've attached an example in VB for CAN below. This example ( Object to Object) transmits data from one port and reads from the other port. If you have a Two port CAN card, then you can connect the cable between the two ports and run this example.
In any case, you can verify whether you are closing the object handle in the same sequence as the example.
Let me know if the error still shows up with the example too.
Attachments:
nicanvb.zip ‏8 KB

Installing second optical drive and the door hangs

This is just an FYI post, have not been able to find anyone else with the exact same problem, but thought I would list in the event of.
I originally installed an internal DVD R/RW Lightscribe drive from LaCie in a Power Mac G4 Dual 1Gig and it worked well! I have since purchased a MacPro and wanted to move the Lightscribe drive into the second optical drive bay. So after installing the drive and attempting to open the tray it was apparent that the door on the case would not allow the tray to open. The front of the Lightscribe tray was too bulky to fit through the opening on the narrower Mac Pro optical drive door.
Well, the folks at Lacie had attached a nameplate to the front of the tray that works fine in other configurations, but on the MacPro the clearance for the tray is narrower and it's bulk would not activate the sliding door properly.
Someone was thinking, because the tray nameplate is detachable with a little effort. I can provide photos if need be.
Tray closes as it should now.

Hi TCherry,
Your situation interests me since I was thinking of doing the same with a previous optical drive from an old G4. I also wanted to add it to my MacPro's 2nd slot.
Are you still willing to supply some pics to see what you did?
Rio.

How to install an SSD in a MacBook Pro and keep the original hard drive

Step by step instructions on how to install a Crucial SSD as the primary drive in a MacBook Pro and use the original hard drive as a second drive in place of the optical drive.
Apart from the time needed to back up your data and clone the original drive to the new SSD, you should be able complete this in less than an hour.

Verifying
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I just purchased the Mac Mini Server with the intention of replacing Lion Server with Lion for the first hard drive while installing Windows 7 thru Bootcamp on the second hard drive. Is it possible for me to do this? Thanks.

I just purchased the Mac Mini Server with the intention of replacing Lion Server with Lion for the first hard drive while installing Windows 7 thru Bootcamp on the second hard drive. Is it possible for me to do this? Thanks.

I would use Parallels or VMWare and use the second drive to hold the virtual machine. That way the VM only uses the space that it needs and you can still use the remainder of the drive for other things, not to mention that you would not need to reboot to run windows.
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