Re: [Fed-Talk] Lion install problems on 2008 Mac Pro
Re: [Fed-Talk] Lion install problems on 2008 Mac Pro
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Lion install problems on 2008 Mac Pro
- From: "Miller, Jason G. (MSFC-IS40)[LMIT - MSFC]" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:23:09 -0500
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Lion install problems on 2008 Mac Pro
That's about the time frame that I purchased these drives (2008-ish). I've sent 5 or 6 of them back and the replacements have always been different models. The different models are functioning fine. The remaining ST31000340AS drives are just useless to me, apparently.
--Jason
On Aug 6, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Bryan Jones wrote:
> Seagate had some 1TB drives about two years ago that just about killed us. Not only was their firmware incompatible with RAID arrays (corrupted *huge* datasets), but we'd have weird problems even getting them to run an OS as a single drive from time to time.
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> On Aug 6, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Miller, Jason G. (MSFC-IS40)[LMIT - MSFC] wrote:
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>> I managed to fix the issue. It seems Lion may have a problem with a certain model of Seagate drives (ST31000340AS). I could not install it on 4 of these drives. Same model, different firmwares. I installed it on another model of drive and it's humming along just fine.
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>> On Aug 6, 2011, at 12:18 AM, Bryan Jones wrote:
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>>> Huh... Good to know and thanks for the correction.
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>>> On Aug 5, 2011, at 11:16 PM, Dave Schroeder wrote:
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>>>> This is not correct. The Lion installer can target a blank volume, and this is a supported installation method.
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>>>> On Aug 5, 2011, at 5:33 PM, Bryan William Jones wrote:
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>>>>> To my knowledge, you can only install 10.7 on a partition with 10.6 already installed. Install 10.6 on the drive you want, then install 10.7 on top of it.
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>>>>> Bryan William Jones, Ph.D.
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>>>>> On Aug 5, 2011, at 4:23 PM, Miller, Jason G. (MSFC-IS40)[LMIT - MSFC] wrote:
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>>>>>> I’m reaching out to anyone on this list just in case you’re out there.
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>>>>>> Have any of you tried to do a clean install of Lion on a 2008 Mac Pro (version 3.1)? I have a system with 4 drives in it and I’m trying to install it on one of the empty drives so I can dual boot between Snow and Lion for the time being. Unfortunately, the install fails every time. The error is a little different each time, but it seems to do with updating system extensions or some kind of filesystem locking.
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>>>>>> Has anyone encountered this? I’m really baffled. I’ve tried resetting the SMC and zapping the PRAM. I understand this list is not really for troubleshooting this type of thing, so I would be happy to take any conversations about it offline if any of you are out there. I’m just reaching out for help at this point.
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>>>>>> Thanks and sorry for the intrusion.
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>>>>>> --Jason
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>>>>>> Jason Miller
>>>>>> NOMAD Chief Engineer
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