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hotwheels22 Author

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mac pro drives not listed in order in Disk Utility

i noticed in installing a fourth internal drive today that the drives are not listed in order, even though I do see a Bay listed at the bottom when i select on the drive. since the drives listed in Disk Utility show the manufacturer this can be a little confusing for me. Right now drives are listed from top to bottom as 3, 1, 2 4.

Is this an issue or is there a way to order them in the way they are in the computer 1 - 4?

thanks for any tips or advice on this. I tried a apple search under the heading here and didn't find much.

Posted on Jan 21, 2012 10:22 AM

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X423424X

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Posted on Jan 21, 2012 12:11 PM

Which drive (bay) is your boot drive?

How are they listed in System Profiler?

And finally I don't believe there is any requirement that DU list them in bay order. I think it just gets them in the order or reverse order they appear on the internal device list, or maybe alphabetical order, or whatever. Mine are not listed in bay order either in DU. Indeed, bay 1, my boot ssd is listed last, just before it lists the dvd.

Who cares where they are on the list so long as they are all there! 😉

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Jan 24, 2012 6:10 AM in response to hotwheels22

hotwheels 22 wrote:

...anyway, how do I read up on this coloring? very interested in this.

thanks.

- jon

That part's easy. On the desktop, locate each of the partitions (they look like little hard disks). Single click on one, Get Info (File menu), and an Info box opens. Part way down is "Label:" with different colors that you can select. Pick one and the name for the that drive icon on the desktop will change to that color.

hotwheels22 Author

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Jan 24, 2012 7:45 AM in response to FatMac-MacPro

very nice.

thanks for all the help. regards.

mac pro drives not listed in order in Disk Utility