how to access sata power on 2008 mac pro motherboard

#How to access sata power on 2008 mac pro motherboard mac os
#How to access sata power on 2008 mac pro motherboard windows

That would be a BIOS, or whatever Mac uses for BIOS, issue. Are you sure that there isn’t a drive size limitation on that Mac? After all, 2 TB drives had barely come out around that time.

You’re using 6 TB drives in an old computer.

Also, does the RAID chip support 6TB, 4K drives? Also, I hope you’re not mixing an RE with a Gold in that RAID. Unless you’re using them in a RAID format that’s not the best use case for the drive.

You are using enterprise drives in a desktop situation.

There are a couple of things you need to consider here: But yeah, I don’t really trust these drives…

#How to access sata power on 2008 mac pro motherboard windows

Booting in Windows (BootCamp) never causes this problem… I guess the problem Hans had was because he used the faulty drives in a raid configuration, which can of course lead to much worse things.

#How to access sata power on 2008 mac pro motherboard mac os

Also only happens when booting into Mac OS (no matter what version). Let’s see how long they’ll play this game, I’ll soon switch to another brand of HDD manufacturers, problem solved.Īlso, no missing files on my side of things here, just missing drive after a reboot (need to shut down and do a cold start to make it show up again). I’m starting to get bummed out because time between their answers is very long too, and then always some wrong information makes them believe it’s not them, which is not helping their cause. This is taking longer and longer, we’re running in circles and nothing gets solved at this rate. Today I got another one of these support failure gems, they assumed I never connected the drive directly to the internal ports of my Mac Pro (which I said from the get go). They keep assuming things I never said, like it’s about a MacBook Pro (while I always wrote it’s a Mac Pro 5,1), telling me those drives are not made for notebooks. Then WD support always tried to twist it so it isn’t a general problem with these drives, but a specific problem to my setup. They’re basically suggesting that it is a problem caused by Apple and that I need to contact Apple to resolve it, but this computer is out of their warranty, so there’s nothing Apple will do about it.

I’ve been in contact with WD’s support about this issue for half a year now, and them being pretty unhelpful so far would be an understatement.

While increasing speed is my main intent, I don't want to sacrifice system stability or data integrity.Hi spacemoth, sorry for the late reply. Lack of boot ability means I only run the backplane and keep the SSD on the motherboard. Since I'm running ZFS I dont need hardware RAID support. It needs a minimum of a single internal mini-SAS port, but dual internal ports would be welcomed (for attaching the boot SSD). I'd rather use the stock backplane since I can plug directly into it.įor anyone posting, I'd appreciate suggestions on a SAS card for the upgrade. I'm not looking for ideas surrounding Apple's RAID card that sits in the topmost slot. Most InDesign files are 100 to 200 pages in length with transparency, layers and multiple elements on each page. My typical 'large' Photoshop files range from 200MB to 600MB. My workflow is predominantly InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop with light video editing occasionally tossed into the mix. Looking for insight from anyone who has replaced the stock hard drive subsystem to 6GB/s speeds via a 4 or 8 channel PCIe SAS/SATA card with an internal SAS connector and connecting it to the built-in SATA backplane with an 'extension' cable. Unfortunately, all my 2012 drives are running at 2008 speeds and are limited to 3 GB/s. Each of the four internal drive bays hosts a 3TB drive which I have configured as a striped and mirrored ZFS partition. Boots from an SSD mounted in the lower optical bay and attached to the second optical SATA port. I have a lightly hot-rodded, early 2008 MacPro 3,1.