Hi Bill, Yes, we are supposed to have left that old theory that the boot drive had to be on the first controller, and had to be in the first position on the cable. Now you should be able to have the boot drive in No1 or No 2 or in fact any other bay; I'm not sure why it did not work in your case. But I experienced this once with a client's MacPro, and when we swapped the boot drive, everything was fine, so I suggested you try swapping the drives.
I'm pleased it has worked for you. I'm also a little envious... I'm saving for the time when I can afford to put a SSD in my MacBook Pro :( Have fun with your speedy boot up drive ;-) Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.7.4 Lion Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 18/05/2012, at 4:05 PM, William Chesnutt wrote: > Thank you Ronni, thank you Ray. Placing the SSD into Bay 1 and the factory > hard drive into Bay 2 appears to have solved the problem. I am astounded, I > thought we had left all that sort of stuff behind us with SCSI. Nonetheless, > I am delighted to have finally solved this problem; and I am happily turning > my Mac on and off just for the fun of watching how quickly it will boot. > Hope you both have a great weekend. > > Regards, > Bill Chesnutt. > > On 18/05/2012, at 2:38 pm, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> Hi Bill, >> >> I presume both drives are formatted GUID Partition Table and Mac OS Extended >> (Journaled)? >> Have you tried swapping the Drives around? >> Have the SSD in Bay 1, and the factory stock drive in Bay 2? >> >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" >> 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD >> >> OS X 10.7.4 Lion >> Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) >> >> On 18/05/2012, at 12:08 PM, William Chesnutt wrote: >> >>> I have tried to upgrade a Mac Pro (early 2008 model, MacPro 3, 1) by adding >>> an SSD to it (Intel 520 series). >>> The Mac is running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) and I do not wish to upgrade it to >>> Lion. >>> The idea is to use the SSD as the start-up disk, and I have cloned my >>> existing start-up disk to it using CarbonCopyCloner (v3.4.5). All is >>> working reasonably well, except for one thing. The Mac will not start up >>> from the SSD when it is powered up. >>> >>> It will do so if I use the Start-Up Manager, that is to say holding down >>> the option key after powering up and then selecting the SSD as the boot >>> disk. The machine does not seem to care that the SSD is already selected >>> as the start-up disk. It will also boot from the SSD by doing a restart, >>> but not if I power down the Mac and then start it up again by pressing the >>> power button. If I try to do this without holding down the option key >>> either I get a kernel panic, or else the grey screen with the Apple logo >>> and the spinning gear wheel appears and the bootup process never gets any >>> further. >>> >>> I want to be able to set the Mac to start up automatically (from the SSD) >>> before I get into work in the morning. >>> >>> The SSD is in SATA drive bay, number 2, and mounted inside an Icy Dock >>> converter. I originally had it in number 3, but this seemed to cause >>> problems. Bay number 1 is occupied by the factory stock hard drive. >>> Number 4 is also empty. I have so far tried Drive Utility, Disk Warrior, >>> zapping the PRam, resetting the power management system, starting up in >>> single user mode and using fsck, Onyx, and the demo version of Drive >>> Genius. The disk repair programs all indicate that the SSD is functioning >>> normally (SMART status) and does not need to be repaired. >>> >>> I have run out of tricks, does anybody on the list have any knowledge of >>> upgrading to an SSD, or any suggestions? >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Bill Chesnutt. >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
