I have a mid 2012 Macbook pro, a few years ago I replaced the hard drive with an SSD and replaced the optical drive with the original hard drive that was in the computer using the OWC data doubler. It all worked well but then last week I started having problems with the secondary drive, whenever I tried to copy large files over I kept getting the error "the finder can't complete the operation because some data in can’t be read or written". I looked up what the problem might be the everything seemed to suggest that the drive was going bad so I bought a new drive and put in into the computer. Then when I tried to format it I got this error:
Wiping volume data to prevent future accidental probing failed.
I looked up what the problem might be again and I found out that the Macbook pro mid 2012 doesn't support SATA III in the optical drive port and that I would need to get a SATA II 3gbs harddrive. So I did but I'm still getting the same error.
The only other solution I'm seeing is to replace the SATA cable but how do I do this for the optical drive? Do I have to replace the whole data doubler? Exactly which cable do I replace? Whenever I look it up I just find a replacement for the original hard drive cable but nothing on how to replace the optical drive cables.
Wiping volume data to prevent future accidental probing failed.
I looked up what the problem might be again and I found out that the Macbook pro mid 2012 doesn't support SATA III in the optical drive port and that I would need to get a SATA II 3gbs harddrive. So I did but I'm still getting the same error.
The only other solution I'm seeing is to replace the SATA cable but how do I do this for the optical drive? Do I have to replace the whole data doubler? Exactly which cable do I replace? Whenever I look it up I just find a replacement for the original hard drive cable but nothing on how to replace the optical drive cables.