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SSDs and Mountain Lion
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OCZ Octane 256GB
I've got a 3 week old OCZ Octane 256GB. Lion ran awesome, with never an issue. I first did an upgrade from lion to mountain lion, and it gray screened and spin wheeled. Also, initialized the octane and did a clean install and too got gray screened. Both ways I could only boot into safe mode.
No fix yet, that I've found.
Macbook Pro 15-inch Early 2011
I've got a 3 week old OCZ Octane 256GB. Lion ran awesome, with never an issue. I first did an upgrade from lion to mountain lion, and it gray screened and spin wheeled. Also, initialized the octane and did a clean install and too got gray screened. Both ways I could only boot into safe mode.
No fix yet, that I've found.
Macbook Pro 15-inch Early 2011
Same here. I have the OZC Petrol and can't boot ML apart from Safe Mode!
Lion works perfectly. Any updates to this issue or work arounds?
Lion works perfectly. Any updates to this issue or work arounds?
Workaround
Found a workaround. Boot into single user mode command+s and wait for the prompt. Type exit and it will boot into mountain lion. At least its not in safe mode now, but you'll have to do this every time!
Hope OCZ or Apple fixes this! It is very annoying.
Found a workaround. Boot into single user mode command+s and wait for the prompt. Type exit and it will boot into mountain lion. At least its not in safe mode now, but you'll have to do this every time!
Hope OCZ or Apple fixes this! It is very annoying.
Upgraded from Lion to ML on the iMac. SSD is a OCZ Vertex Plus. Boots normally. Operates wonderfully.
After 3 hours and 2 reinstalls wondering if my laptop had died, so pleased I saw your thread!
Can confirm that Petrol 128gb won't work with ML.
Can confirm that Petrol 128gb won't work with ML.
All who have OCZ please create topics at http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?237-OCZ-SSD-Support-for-Linux-and-Apple-OSX and try to share this problem with different online magazines. This problem must be withheld.
180GB Agility 3 has zero issues here. THOUGH! When I first tried to format it, Lion said it couldn't write to the last block, and never did anything. It took a 6yr old Core Duo Macbook running Snow Leopard to format it! It had no hiccups there. Maybe ML will be able to format it if I ever need it to? Or maybe that issue was fixed? Who knows! It isn't broken so I ain't touching it!
Any trouble reported with the OCZ Vertex II's? I have one running OS X Lion at the moment without any particular trouble, though I did disable TRIM support after briefly enabling it (it actually ran slower with TRIM enabled).
I don't think Apple would do anything to purposefully hamper third party SSD's, as Mac Pro users can trivially install them, and anyone with a SATA drive dock could one to their machine, so making them non-bootable seems weird. The fact devorebo found that strange workaround suggests it's something to do with the driver not loading at the correct time for booting.
I don't think Apple would do anything to purposefully hamper third party SSD's, as Mac Pro users can trivially install them, and anyone with a SATA drive dock could one to their machine, so making them non-bootable seems weird. The fact devorebo found that strange workaround suggests it's something to do with the driver not loading at the correct time for booting.
I have a OCZ Vertex Plus 128GB SSD and ML installs fine but it won't mount any external hard drives at all. I backed all my stuff up to my external then did a clean install on this SSD and now I can't mount any external drive I've tried. Disk Utility says the disk needs to be repaired, even if I try formatting a new drive on ML. This is such a pain.
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Have you tried using any external drives with ML yet? I have the same SSD as you, the install went fine, boots fine, but my issue is with external drives (tested 1TB, 1.5TB both formatted on exFat and Fat to no avail) Disk utility will recognize it but it won't mount.
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Have you tried using any external drives with ML yet? I have the same SSD as you, the install went fine, boots fine, but my issue is with external drives (tested 1TB, 1.5TB both formatted on exFat and Fat to no avail) Disk utility will recognize it but it won't mount.
I have 2 Firewire hard drives operating without issue & I have a time capsule with an extra drive connected to it via usb. All working as they should, thankfully.
Weird, I wonder what I'm doing wrong! If you have a second could you look at your System Information and compare it to mine, I wonder if we have different firmware versions on our SSD's. Thank you!
OCZ Vertex 3 Max IOPS + ML = Fine & Fast
(Although it took me almost 9 hours to download from Apples clogged servers despite comcast's freebie upgrade to 50MBs down)
(Although it took me almost 9 hours to download from Apples clogged servers despite comcast's freebie upgrade to 50MBs down)
I have a Crucial M4 (256) that is having the same problem. To anyone with a Crucial M4 that is working, did any of you upgrade from Lion or Snow Leopard? Also, did any of you have the trim enabler installed?