Yeah. I ran the DriveDX and it just says "Drives with SMART support not found." Thanks, I'll try the drive out in the MP.
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Yeah. I ran the DriveDX and it just says "Drives with SMART support not found." Thanks, I'll try the drive out in the MP.
Hey can you send me the instructions. I usually use a third party app however I would like to know how. Thanks
My Mac Pro reads the WD drive as disk2 and SMART status verified.
Partition Map: Not supported.
Test if you can zerodisk the WD2TB drive. Confirm if still disk2.
Code:
caffeinate -i diskutil zerodisk disk2I've asked to you confirm if still disk2 because sometimes on a reboot, Mac changes the enumeration of disks, so before formatting/erasing/zeroout it's nice to check if the drive that you want to work still has the same diskID.
caffeinate disables your Mac Pro sleep while executing the command.
diskutil zerodisk write zeros all over the disk, removing everything on the disk.
For some reason, it couldn't find Disk2 when I did that command (now that I think about it, I did use all caps for DISK2—maybe that was the cause). So I erased it in disk utility instead.
Yeah, looks to be fine. How do you test it exactly? Try to put something on the drive?
On a Mac Pro you can have macOS installations in every drive installed, and select what drive you want to boot with the boot selector (power-on with Option pressed).
If you don't want to risk messing with your SSD in any way, just remove it from your Mac Pro.
Oh, that's neat. So much flexibility with these Mac Pros. Wish I had gotten one earlier.
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If I can successfully install the OS on the WD drive, can I then try putting it back in the iMac and see if it works there?