I have been trying to update my OS to Mojave with no success. When I try to update, to the OWC Aura for Mac Pro (2 TB) it gives me this error
any solutions out there?
That is same as mine.
I would if you can (may not because of size), get the Mojave installation you want on the old SSD. Then with the Aura in the MP clone the original SSD to the Aura. Carbon Copy Cloner work and maybe Super Duper will work.
That is what OWC recommended here, a little past half through the second page.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mojave-install-issue-on-2013-mac-pro.2143738/page-2
Seems that the MP sees the Aura as RAID 0 and now the Mojave installer will not install on a RAID volume.
yeah i posted it for another user that requested it
it looks like aura SSD's will become obsolete since they cant be updated
very sad
anybody want to buy mine lol?
And did you contact the supplier as directed ?
OWC have a lot to of information about EXACTLY how to install that drive and upgrade your Mac Pro at the same time.
There is a certain order for system and firmware updates that MUST be adhered to, so that you get the proper Mac firmware in place BEFORE attempting to use the Aura Pro.
It appears that what you want is now on the Aura. If that is the case I would clone the Aura to an external drive. Boot from that drive and ensure it works. Then update to Mojave. Boot and test that Mojave external drive. Then back it up or clone it to another external drive. The
en erase/clone the external drive to the Aura.
I was trying to elaborate on Lllaass advice to use Terminal command:
diskutil list
to show the raw partitions installed on each drive.
Mine look like this (all drives are bootable, but hold different versions of MacOS):
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *80.0 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS X11-Drv80 79.1 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *120.0 GB disk1
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS X12-SSD120 119.2 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3
/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *240.1 GB disk2
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC 239.8 GB disk2s2
/dev/disk3 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk3
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk3s1
2: Apple_HFS X14-Drv1000 999.3 GB disk3s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk3s3
My disk2 is interesting because it is an SSD with High Sierra installed, and therefore has the distinctive encapsulation partitions for APFS-on-SSD. Because of this encapsulation, It cannot be seen under MacOS El Capitan 10.11.
My disk3 is a rotating magnetic drive with Mojave Installed, so it does NOT have the encapsulation partitions of an APFS drive.
There are settings you can change in Terminal that will allow installation on an SSD without using APFS and its encapsulation.
A RAID drive has a different encapsulation, that appears to preclude the use of the usual APFS-on-SSD encapsulation and/or the encryption encapsulation partitions.
Thats what I am trying to figure out. Its really strange, I think it all has something to do with that Aura drive because with the original apple drive no problem to install on the ssd and external.
what you posted appears to be the completely useless "Volume-View":
what is needed to look at a Drive is Device View, which will show Devices by their immutable Hardware-Name:
.
in the upper left corner of the Disk Utility Window, under the red yellow green indicators, there is a little thing labelled "View".
Use that tho change to Device View.
OWC Aura for Mac Pro