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- Nvidia 9800Gt
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Hello all and thanks to the team for all their efforts - through you, I have been enjoying awesome i7 Sandybridge performance for some months, with both reliability and affordability in running Logic Studio, instead of having to rely on a now thoroughly overpriced and outdated Mac Pro.
I have an odd SSD issue - which is severe and predictable - the behaviour repeats each time, it is not a one-off.
(The SSD has been updated to the latest firmware via a Windows machine).
I say "odd" for good reason - it happens ONLY after booting the second time into OSX.
That is: After a fresh install, the first boot is successful, but then after the first reboot (and thus second fresh boot) their is some kind of disk corruption on my Octane 2 SSD which renders the system effectively dead.
All further boots are the same:
System hangs on white Apple icon screen and eventually the machine restarts completely (of its own accord so to speak).
In verbose mode the system pauses at "FIPS USER SPACE POST SUCCESS" then after about 3 minutes or so, there is a mass of text, that appears to be referring to disk errors (the text is unreadable as it is too fast!) but there is some mention of "media is not present".
I have taken a photo of the screen using my iPad but it is unavoidably blurred.
What is really odd is that this only affects Snow Leopard and now Mountain Lion, it does not affect Lion.
I gave up on 10.6 with this SSD due to these errors and was surprised to find that Lion was unaffected - I have been running Lion 10.7.4 for a month without issue.
I assumed that Mountain Lion would also be OK - that whatever changes to SSD support were implemented in Lion would be carried over.
I was wrong.
Steps taken:
1. Installed ML via Unibeast 1.5 to old SATA (none-SSD) drive.
All fine.
Reboots repeatedly without issue.
2. Cloned using Carbon Copy Cloner to Octane SSD - all fine on first boot, then corruption occurs and cannot boot a second time.
3. Tried fresh install of ML to SSD using Unibeast 1.5, thinking Carbon Copy Cloner could be source of the problem above, all fine, boots after restart after installation. Then after first re-boot, corruption - no boot.
I have run through these steps three times at least and the behaviour repeats and then
4. Used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone previous Lion system back to SSD - clones without issue and boots into Lion from SSD, fast and without issue, repeatedly.
There are no hangs or errors.
So, with evidence, something is happening further to the second boot into Snow Leopard and/or Mountain Lion, specifically when using my Octane 2 128Gb SSD that causes a disk problem and renders the OS unbootable.
This does not affect Lion.
Any ideas or assistance is gratefully received, though comments along the lines of "why did you buy a POS OCZ SSD?" aren't necessarily all that welcome as whatever is happening, it is not absolutely true of all three OSX versions listed above.
My system is:
GA-Z68XP-UD3 F10
16Gb 1600 RAM
9800GT 512mb
i7 2600k
2x SATA drives
1x Octane SSD
I have an odd SSD issue - which is severe and predictable - the behaviour repeats each time, it is not a one-off.
(The SSD has been updated to the latest firmware via a Windows machine).
I say "odd" for good reason - it happens ONLY after booting the second time into OSX.
That is: After a fresh install, the first boot is successful, but then after the first reboot (and thus second fresh boot) their is some kind of disk corruption on my Octane 2 SSD which renders the system effectively dead.
All further boots are the same:
System hangs on white Apple icon screen and eventually the machine restarts completely (of its own accord so to speak).
In verbose mode the system pauses at "FIPS USER SPACE POST SUCCESS" then after about 3 minutes or so, there is a mass of text, that appears to be referring to disk errors (the text is unreadable as it is too fast!) but there is some mention of "media is not present".
I have taken a photo of the screen using my iPad but it is unavoidably blurred.
What is really odd is that this only affects Snow Leopard and now Mountain Lion, it does not affect Lion.
I gave up on 10.6 with this SSD due to these errors and was surprised to find that Lion was unaffected - I have been running Lion 10.7.4 for a month without issue.
I assumed that Mountain Lion would also be OK - that whatever changes to SSD support were implemented in Lion would be carried over.
I was wrong.
Steps taken:
1. Installed ML via Unibeast 1.5 to old SATA (none-SSD) drive.
All fine.
Reboots repeatedly without issue.
2. Cloned using Carbon Copy Cloner to Octane SSD - all fine on first boot, then corruption occurs and cannot boot a second time.
3. Tried fresh install of ML to SSD using Unibeast 1.5, thinking Carbon Copy Cloner could be source of the problem above, all fine, boots after restart after installation. Then after first re-boot, corruption - no boot.
I have run through these steps three times at least and the behaviour repeats and then
4. Used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone previous Lion system back to SSD - clones without issue and boots into Lion from SSD, fast and without issue, repeatedly.
There are no hangs or errors.
So, with evidence, something is happening further to the second boot into Snow Leopard and/or Mountain Lion, specifically when using my Octane 2 128Gb SSD that causes a disk problem and renders the OS unbootable.
This does not affect Lion.
Any ideas or assistance is gratefully received, though comments along the lines of "why did you buy a POS OCZ SSD?" aren't necessarily all that welcome as whatever is happening, it is not absolutely true of all three OSX versions listed above.
My system is:
GA-Z68XP-UD3 F10
16Gb 1600 RAM
9800GT 512mb
i7 2600k
2x SATA drives
1x Octane SSD