Serious Firewire Meltdown

I'm working on a film right now, with four different drives - two Lacie D2s, and two Western Digital MyBooks. A couple of weeks ago, something very strange started happening - the firewire cards on every computer we use stop working. It's not just the drives that they don't recognize, it's any firewire equipment, like cameras or video decks too. The firewire bus comes up in the system profiler, and running the extended diagnostics from the install dvd doesn't come up with any problems either. If anyone has had this happen, please let me know - we desperately need to figure this out. I think that one of the Western Digital drives is frying everything it touches, because I can't figure out what else could be happening, but I have never heard of this kind of thing, and I'm hoping that it's not quite that serious.
Some backstory: one of the Lacies, when plugged into my firewire 400 port on my Macbook Pro, started spewing smoke about two weeks ago. I obviously didn't plug it in again, but I was worried about plugging anything else into the port, so I brought it into the Apple Store. They plugged a drive in, booted up from it, and said everything was fine. Soon afterwards, my computer stopped booting up, so I tried to connect it to an intel core 2 due imac as a target disk - nothing happened. Now, the imac doesn't recognize any firewire devices at all, even though, as I mentioned, all diagnostics come back fine. I've reset the PRAM and the power manager, repaired permissions, repaired the disk, reinstalled the 10.4.10 update, and am now just totally stuck. I do know that my firewire card recognizes devices, so the problem isn't there... I also know that the deck that isn't recognized by the imac isn't recognized by my computer either, which concerns me a lot.
I went back into the apple store with the two Western Digital drives that we have, and the guy couldn't get one of them to mount via firewire. It's brand new, and it used to work, so I don't know what's going on. Probably it's just a lemon, but with all the other problems we've been having I have to consider it could be connected. I'm pretty sure that this drive was never connected to my Macbook either.
So, in closing, anyone... what the **** is going on here?

I'm interested too - my FW HD has stopped responding. Could it be the 10.4.10 update?
By any chance, does it completely mess up the colours on reboot? (see http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1093224)

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hi,
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oh yea, its good that my expensi've creative stuff works and that it was not creative's fault but that of a moron of a user. now honestly, how is an average user supposed to get their product working when the knowledge base is totally outdated and gives advice such as "update your bios, get the latest drivers and dont put your card into the microwave", when mods in this forum give advice like the knowledge base and the driver is not even installable? creative products are not bad at all, they're not cheap at all too. but the support page is absolutely not informati've and the knowledgebase does not give solutions to known issues. i was never ever able to find anything useful there and i'm really really not an average user but a very experienced one. not everyone wants to use a pre-installed dell box with el-cheapo components. i like to put my own high-end rig together and things must be pushed to the limit BUT still be absolutely rock solid. let me list my recent experience with creative products during the past 2 years:
-) bought an inspire 6. surround system and even replaced my audigy with version 2 for it. but unfortunately the subwoofer had a problem. it randomly made a popping noise which was so loud that it pushed your adrenaline level to that of a base jumper. i then found out that the whole batch had some faulty component. at least i got a replacement within a week, so i thought "yea, great support".
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alright, i hope anyone can use this information. sorry for the length but i wanted to describe things as precisely as necessary. cheers from austria.
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I think you should get Applejack...
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At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.
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Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.
Trash old Log files.
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Disconnect the USB cable from any Uninterruptible Power Supply so the system doesn't shut down in the middle of the process.
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From the response to this, and from reading several other threads regarding SSDs, I found that several Mac Pro owners are using OCZ SSDs as boot drives, and in some cases employing up to 3 of them.
I received my Agility EX from Aria on 16th. December, and yesterday afternoon I decided to set up my boot drive and 4 drive RAID 0, as described in: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2263023&tstart=0
First of all I used SuperDuper to clone from my VelociRaptor 300GB drive in Bay 1, to my original Apple (WD) 640GB drive in Bay 2.
Then I removed the original Apple drive, and installed it in an ONNTO dataTale TQ-M12H external single enclosure, using a Firewire 800 interface connection. Next I selected this as my boot drive to check it would boot OK, restarted my system, and there was no problem.
So my next step was to install the Agility EX, and another 3 VelociRaptor 300GB drives, in the Mac pro workstation.
First, I reselected VelociRaptor 1 as my boot drive, so that I could use SuperDuper to clone to the Agility EX.
The Agility EX was installed in the lower of the 2 optical bays, and was connected to the pre-wired SATA and power cable, and the VelociRaptors were placed in hard drive bays 2, 3, and 4.
I then started up the Mac Pro, and there were 4 message boxes on the desktop, requesting that the drives should be initialised. So then I used Disk Utility to initialise the 4 drives. The SSD was named "Agility EX Boot", and the others "VelociRaptor 2", VelociRaptor 3, and VelociRaptor 4". The Mac system accepted all 4, and mounted desk top icons for each drive. I cannot remember the exact figure, but the Agility EX was listed as approx. 64GB in Disk Utility after its initialisation. All 4 VelociRaptors are shown as 300.07GB. All drives were formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
The next stage was to use SuperDuper to clone from VelociRaptor 1 to the Agility EX Boot drive.
Everything was fine until 28.00GB had been copied, and then nothing more would copy. The total to be cloned was just under 30GB, which should not have been a problem with a SSD disk capacity of approx. 64GB, but everything was frozen at that point - exactly 28.00GB!
Eventually, my only option was to stop the process, and quit Super Duper.
Then I restarted the system to try again, but this is where there is a real problem now!
My system does not recognise the Agility EX at all now! Also, it is no longer listed in Disk Utility!
The system does not even acknowledge its existence! It is not even shown on the desktop at start-up, whereas I thought that perhaps there might have been another message box requesting that it should be reinitialised.
I tried disconnecting and reconnecting everything - all drives, interface connections, power cables etc., but to no avail!
This morning I tried this again, but still I cannot get my system to even acknowledge the Agility EX, let alone list it!
So at the moment I am still using VelociRaptor 1 as my boot drive, and, in fact, as my main drive, because I am reluctant to use it with the 3 other VelociRaptors as a 4 drive RAID 0 set up until I get this problem with the Agility EX resolved.
(OCZ - 22 Dec 2009 - 18.29 GMT):-
Cloning from a HDD to an SSD is very problematic. I strongly recommend against doing this. Instead you will want to just install normally onto the SSD. You can clone from SSD to SSD, or from HDD to HDD, but going from one to the other can cause issues.
Try disconnecting the drive from the computer for an hour or so. This will allow all power in the drive to fully discharge. This is a way of resetting the drive that can usually recover the drive. Then plug the drive back in. Does the drive show up again?
If so, delete the partition on the drive, then create a new partition and then install the OS onto it clean rather than clone the OS onto the drive. That should resolve the issues you are having.
(Biltan-Wales - 23 Dec 2009 - 16.19 GMT):-
Thank you for your advice.
I have now disconnected the Agility EX SSD, and removed it from my Mac Pro's lower optical bay.
As Christmas is imminent, and I will not be using my system very much over the next few days, I will leave the drive for 4 to 5 days to allow ample time for all the power to discharge.
Then I will reconnect it, and I will let you know whether or not the drive is recognised by my system.
I was not aware that cloning from a HDD to an SSD could be problematic. Several threads on the Apple Support Discussion Forum have recommended using SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner for this purpose. SuperDuper is the preferred option of most Forum members, whereas Lloyd Chambers (diglloyd.com), author of "macperformanceguide.com", uses Carbon Copy Cloner to clone his HDD boot drives to his Intel and Crucial SSDs.
After the Agility EX had been set up as my system boot drive, my intention was to use SuperDuper to clone from it to my original Apple (WD) HDD, now in an external enclosure with Firewire 800 interface, and then use SuperDuper's Smart Update for regular backups, so that I always had an up to date spare boot drive for the OS and applications.
The current VelociRaptor 1 boot drive would then be erased, and I would then use the Mac OS Disk Utility to create a 4 drive software RAID ) with the other 3 VelociRaptors, and this would be backed up using Time Machine to my existing WD My Book Studio Edition II 2TB External Hard Drive.
Please correct me if I have misunderstood your advice, but are you saying that I should only use another SSD, and not my original Apple (WD) HDD, as my back-up external boot drive? I don't know of any other Mac users who are using SSDs for that purpose, possibly because of the prohibitive cost of doing so.
I am more than happy to follow your advice to reinstall the Mac OS and my applications cleanly onto the Agility EX, and, in fact, I did exactly that with my first VelociRaptor HDD, before I had SuperDuper. However, that would still leave me with the problem of how to set up and maintain an external back-up system boot drive, without incurring the expense of another SSD. Any suggestions please?
Anyway the most important matter is the existing problem, and I am hoping that following your advice will resolve this.
I will contact you again early next week. In the meantime have a very enjoyable Christmas!
(OCZ - 24 Dec 2009 - 00.25 GMT):-
If the image is of an HDD and that image is then cloned onto an SSD that does tend to be problematic. I do not recommend doing this, as an image of the HDD somewhat regularly does fail to copy onto an SSD and still remain functional or fast.
You can store the image file on any sort of drive. Storing the image file is fine, as that is just a digital file, so the storage medium doesn't matter. Its actually applying that image to a drive is where the problems often occur.
You can image from a HDD to a HDD just fine, or an SSD to an SSD just fine, but going from one to the other is problematic enough that I recommend not doing this. Sometimes it works just fine, but other times it can fail catastrophically to the point of even bricking the drive. To error on the side of caution I recommend just going a clean install on the new SSD.
Once you have that clean install done you can then take an image of that SSD and image on to other SSD's, or store the image on a HDD for backup purposes.
(Biltan-Wales - 29 Dec 2009 - 13.16 GMT)
Thank you for your last email.
Further to your previous email, and my reply of 23/12/2009. this morning I reconnected the Agility EX SSD.
However, unfortunately, the drive has not showed up again on my system. There is no icon for it on the desktop, nor is it listed in Disk utility.
When I checked Serial-ATAS in my Mac Pro's System Profiler, all 6 Intel ICH10 AHCI are listed in the Serial-ATA Device Tree, but, whereas all my other drives are sub-listed, there is nothing underneath the ICH10 AHCI for the lower optical bay.
As the drive has had 6 days to discharge and reset, it would appear that it has not recovered.
Where do I go from here?
I am still awaiting a reply from OCZ, but that is not surprising, because of the different time zones and the Christmas?New Year holiday period.
In the meantime does anybody else have any ideas, please?

Hi thanon,
"So the SSD is not visible, not even in disk utility, even after a restart ?":-
No.
"Check the log of SuperDuper (Window-Show Log); warnings are in red, I think.":-
This is a copy of the log, but it only refers to the original Mac (WD) drive as the Target Volume and it only lists the last Smart Update. There is no record of the original cloning to the same drive on 21st. December, nor of the interim Smart Updates. There is no record logged at all for the OCZ Agility EX SSD, despite the unsuccessful cloning attempt on 21st. December:-
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | SuperDuper!, 2.6.2 (87), path: /Applications/SuperDuper!.app, Mac OS 10.6.2 build 10C540 (i386)
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | Started on Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:39 AM
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | Source Volume: VelociRaptor 1, mount: /, device: /dev/disk3s2, media: WDC WD3000HLFS-01G6U1, interconnect: Internal SATA, file system: "Journaled HFS+", OS: 10.6.2 (10C540), capacity: 299.73 GB, used: 30.53 GB, directories: 164608, files: 521266, ejectable: NO, ACLs: Enabled
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | Target Volume: Untitled 1, mount: /Volumes/Untitled 1, device: /dev/disk5s2, media: Ext Hard Disk, interconnect: External FireWire, file system: "Journaled HFS+", OS: 10.6.2 (10C540), capacity: 639.79 GB, used: 30.27 GB, directories: 164519, files: 522654, ejectable: YES, ACLs: Enabled
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | Copy Mode : Smart Update
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | Copy Script : Backup - all files.dset
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | Transcript : BuildTranscript.plist
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | PHASE: 1. Prepare to Copy Files
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Preparing VelociRaptor 1
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying the integrity of volinfo.database
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | volinfo.database OK
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on VelociRaptor 1
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for VelociRaptor 1
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | Permissions on '/' are enabled.
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Preparing Untitled 1
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Enabling permissions on Untitled 1
| 11:39:15 AM | Info | Refreshing Disk Arbitration ...
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying that permissions are enabled for Untitled 1
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | Permissions on '/Volumes/Untitled 1' are enabled.
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Verifying that Untitled 1 ACL support matches VelociRaptor 1
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Preserving Spotlight state on Untitled 1
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Disabling Spotlight search indexing on Untitled 1
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | PHASE: 2. Copy Files
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Copying files from VelociRaptor 1 to Untitled 1 using Smart Update
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Cloning VelociRaptor 1 to Untitled 1
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | Copying copy files with delete using script: /Users/williamtanner/Library/Application Support/SuperDuper!/Copy Scripts/Standard Scripts/Backup - all files.dset
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | Loading 27 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude system temporary files.dset
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | Loading 6 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude system cache files.dset
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Norton FileSaver files.dset
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | Loading 2 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude Google Desktop Index files.dset
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | Loading 1 commands from copy script /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/Resources/Copy Scripts/Exclude iTunes Temporary files.dset
| 11:39:16 AM | Info | Loading 0 commands from copy script /Users/williamtanner/Library/Application Support/SuperDuper!/Copy Scripts/Standard Scripts/Backup - all files.dset
| 11:39:20 AM | Info | /
| 11:39:20 AM | Info | /.vol
| 11:39:20 AM | Info | Ignoring /.vol
| 11:39:20 AM | Info | /cores
| 11:39:20 AM | Info | /Network
| 11:39:20 AM | Info | /.Spotlight-V100
| 11:39:20 AM | Info | Preserving /.Spotlight-V100
| 11:39:20 AM | Info | /private
| 11:39:20 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/folders/-S
| 11:39:20 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/folders/zz
| 11:39:20 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/tmp/com.epson.epw
| 11:39:20 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/tmp/com.apple.speech.synthesis.globals
| 11:39:20 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/tmp/launchd
| 11:39:20 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/tmp/com.WD.WDDriveManagerService
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/vm/swapfile0
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/vpncontrol.sock
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/usbmuxd
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/syslog.pid
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/syslog
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/printtool
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/portmap.socket
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/mDNSResponder
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/cupsd
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/com.apple.ActivityMonitor.socket
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/asl_input
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/SCHelper
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/diskarbitrationd.pid
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/configd.pid
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/DirectoryService.pid
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/.DSRunningSP1
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/automount.initialized
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/mds.pid
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/com.apple.loginwindow.didRunThisBoot
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/pppconfd
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/resolv.conf
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/sntp.log
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/ntpd.pid
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/utmpx
| 11:39:23 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/run/mds
| 11:39:32 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/db/BootCache.playlist
| 11:39:32 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/var/db/volinfo.database
| 11:39:32 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/tmp/MobileDevice.log
| 11:39:32 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/tmp/launchd-99.KTlnYd
| 11:39:32 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/tmp/launch-TIwnDn
| 11:39:32 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/tmp/launch-S6asBo
| 11:39:32 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/tmp/launch-1v6MDi
| 11:39:32 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/tmp/icssuis501
| 11:39:32 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/tmp/4b3745a3d4d81
| 11:39:32 AM | Info | Ignoring /private/tmp/target221.indexState
| 11:39:32 AM | Info | /Users
| 11:39:36 AM | Info | Ignoring /.hotfiles.btree
| 11:39:36 AM | Info | /bin
| 11:39:36 AM | Info | /sbin
| 11:39:36 AM | Info | /usr
| 11:39:48 AM | Info | /System
| 11:41:47 AM | Info | /Library
| 11:42:41 AM | Info | /Applications
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | /.Trashes
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | /.fseventsd
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | Preserving /.fseventsd
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | /dev
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | /net
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | /home
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | /Volumes
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | Ignoring /Volumes/My Book
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | Ignoring /Volumes/VelociRaptor 3
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | Ignoring /Volumes/VelociRaptor 4
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | Ignoring /Volumes/VelociRaptor 2
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | Ignoring /Volumes/VelociRaptor 1
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | Ignoring /Volumes/Untitled 1
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | Evaluated 685438 items occupying 29.45 GB (164606 directories, 511269 files, 9563 symlinks)
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | Copied 463 items totaling 0.69 GB (117 directories, 335 files, 11 symlinks)
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | Cloned 29.15 GB of data in 306 seconds at an effective transfer rate of 95.25 MB/s
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Resetting Custom Icon bit on Untitled 1
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | PHASE: 3. After Successful Copy
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Making Untitled 1 bootable
| 11:44:22 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Blessing OS X System Folder
| 11:44:23 AM | Info | Successfully blessed Mac OS X folder on Untitled 1
| 11:44:23 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Blessing OS 9 System Folder
| 11:44:23 AM | Info | Did not bless Mac OS 9 System Folder on Untitled 1 because it does not exist.
| 11:44:23 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Updating prebinding on Untitled 1
| 11:44:23 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Updating boot cache on '/Volumes/Untitled 1'
| 11:44:30 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache[271] current i386 cache file invalid because /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Desk topServicesPriv has changed
| 11:44:34 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/Resources/MetadataLib.dy lib for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
| 11:44:34 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/MacOS/RawCamera for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
| 11:44:38 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache[271] current ppc cache file invalid because /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Desk topServicesPriv has changed
| 11:44:41 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/Resources/MetadataLib.dy lib for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
| 11:44:41 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/MacOS/RawCamera for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
| 11:44:45 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache[271] current x86_64 cache file invalid because /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Desk topServicesPriv has changed
| 11:44:48 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/MacOS/RawCamera for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
| 11:44:48 AM | Info | updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/Resources/MetadataLib.dy lib for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
| 11:44:52 AM | Info | Successfully updated boot cache on Untitled 1
| 11:44:52 AM | Info | ...ACTION: Restoring Spotlight state on Untitled 1
| 11:44:52 AM | Info | ......COMMAND => Restoring Spotlight search indexing state on Untitled 1
| 11:44:53 AM | Info | /Volumes/Untitled 1:
| 11:44:53 AM | Info | Indexing enabled.
| 11:44:53 AM | Info | Indexing enabled on Untitled 1
| 11:44:53 AM | Info | Copy complete.
"Maybe turn the MP off, pull the power cord and disconnect all external devices but keyboard and mouse, disconnct the SSD, reconnect and start MP":-
I have tried this several times without any success.
"Also, make sure no programs are running during cloning, and leave the computer alone.":-
SuperDuper was the only program running when I cloned firstly to the Mac (WD) HDD, and secondly to the Agility EX on 21st. December.
Also everything was disconnected before I removed and transferred the Mac HDD to an external enclosure.
After I had checked that the Mac HDD had been cloned successfully, everything was disconnected again before I fitted the Agility Ex and the other 3 VelociRaptors in the lower optical drive bay, and drive bays 2,3 & 4 respectively.
I used a Lindy anti-static Service Kit throughout the whole process. I purchased this originally for when I installed 16GB of Kingston RAM, an ATI Radeon HD4870, and my first VelociRaptor

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