MacBook Upgrade Disc
Rod
320GB into a 2008 white MacBook.
Eventually, after utterly failing to get anything other than an
automated acknowledgement for WD support, we decided to bite the bullet
and buy a different drive.
Feeling a bit jaundiced, went for the cheapest - a Fujitsu. Last night
installed the drive, installed OS, restored from Time Machine and all is
sparkling and lovely. Apart from extended elapsed time it is an absolute
breeze.
The WD will probably have its future as an external USB drive in an Icy
Box enclosure (white - so it looks OK-ish by the MacBook).
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Hugo Rogers
On 7/5/09 10:34 AM, in article 7bbacvF...@mid.individual.net, "Rod"
<poly...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> A few weeks ago I posted about difficulties installing a WD Scorpio Blue
> 320GB into a 2008 white MacBook.
>
> Eventually, after utterly failing to get anything other than an
> automated acknowledgement for WD support, we decided to bite the bullet
> and buy a different drive.
>
> Feeling a bit jaundiced, went for the cheapest - a Fujitsu. Last night
> installed the drive, installed OS, restored from Time Machine and all is
> sparkling and lovely. Apart from extended elapsed time it is an absolute
> breeze.
>
> The WD will probably have its future as an external USB drive in an Icy
> Box enclosure (white - so it looks OK-ish by the MacBook).
Ive just brought a seagate Free agent go 320gb for my macbook pro as an
externalpurely back up and disaster recovery drive and its fantastic at the
moment
Ive installed leopard on it so I can boot from it its fast as fuck
Rod
> A few weeks ago I posted about difficulties installing a WD Scorpio Blue
> 320GB into a 2008 white MacBook.
>
> Eventually, after utterly failing to get anything other than an
> automated acknowledgement for WD support, we decided to bite the bullet
> and buy a different drive.
>
> Feeling a bit jaundiced, went for the cheapest - a Fujitsu. Last night
> installed the drive, installed OS, restored from Time Machine and all is
> sparkling and lovely. Apart from extended elapsed time it is an absolute
> breeze.
>
> The WD will probably have its future as an external USB drive in an Icy
> Box enclosure (white - so it looks OK-ish by the MacBook).
>
Utility.
When I put the Scorpio disk into a USB enclosure, the MacBook could not
see it - though at the beginning of the saga it had done so. The only
change I could think of was that we had followed instructions and set it
up as a GUID drive when first attached to the MacBook in the USB enclosure .
Another thing that threw me was that I could use WD tools on my Windows
PC and see the drive just fine (though nothing more than a cryptic
description in Disc Management and using the WD testing tools). But that
proved there was nothing wrong with the drive.
So I downloaded MacDrive 8 to my PC and let it do its magic on the
drive. Reconnected it to the MacBook and Disk Utility was able to access
it just fine. Fully verified. No problem at all.
So the underlying problem seems to have been Disk Utility's inability to
see and therefore do anything with the drive after it had perfectly
happily made it a GUID drive. How very odd.
Jaimie Vandenbergh
wrote:
Hum. No rhyme or reason there, really.
My own 500gig WD Blue (which as you'll recall gave me some
being-very-slow type trouble when rebooting) is now happily working
inside my TV mini, where it's having no slow-boot trouble at all.
Cheers - Jaimie
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Rod
Agreed - and thanks for your replies (now and earlier).
A bit of net research did suggest that there are some issues with Disk
Utility and specific drives - though whether that is specific model(s)
or specific specimen(s) has been unclear so far.
Noticed on the removed 120GB drive, it says 'Apple firmware' - maybe if
there were an Apple-specific firmware to download for the drive, that
would have got over the problem?
Jaimie Vandenbergh
wrote:
>A bit of net research did suggest that there are some issues with Disk
>Utility and specific drives - though whether that is specific model(s)
>or specific specimen(s) has been unclear so far.
Specific firmware, I'd expect - but of course firmware is
model-specific, so if it's on all that model (or all that model for a
certain time period) then it looks like a drive.
>Noticed on the removed 120GB drive, it says 'Apple firmware' - maybe if
>there were an Apple-specific firmware to download for the drive, that
>would have got over the problem?
Yes, all of mine have too. I'm not aware that the Apple-specific stuff
is available at all. Back in the dim and distant (68k period) past one
sometimes had to do all sorts of odd things to get drives to work in
Macs, but these days people generally pay attention to standards.
That said, both WD and Seagate have had some pretty bloody serious
firmware issues in the last year or two; generally in the 3.5" SATA
department but it sounds like they're all trying to be Too Clever and
getting buggy.
Cheers - Jaimie
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