Samsung Pro 840 SSD Dual Hard Drives - 2nd Hard Drive Not Seen
Hello all and thanks for taking the time to read this post and help out. For my christmas gift to myself, I purchased a brand new 2012 Mac Mini and upgraded the processor to 2.6. I then went online to NewEgg and purchased 2 Samsung Pro 840 256GB hard Drives. Finally I went over to iFixit and purchased the addtional SATA drive connector with their add a drive kit.
Pulled the Mac Mini apart following the instructions and added the second hard drive. I also removed the original 1TB drive so that I now had 2 Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB SSD drives installed. Plugged in power, monitor, had my new bluetooth keyboard and was madly pressing command r. Turns out that bluetooth was not working for I went a purchased an additional keyboard at Best Buy. Plugged it in, used command r and it found the Apple servers and downloaded the OS. However, it only saw one drive.
After the install, still only saw one drive. The Primary. Opened the Mini up again, checked everything, reassembled, no dice. Pulled it apart a third time, and decided to change the secondard additional drive to the original 1 TB drive. So now I got a 256 SSD and a 1TB. Boot the OS, it sees the Hard Drive so I am thiking ok the SATA cable is fine.
Next day I take the second SSD and put it in my alienware computer. Windows sees the hard drive immediatly. So I am like Hmm. Hard Drive must work, SATA cable works, so why does Hard Drive and SATA cable not work together.
I posted to Samsung who said, well if widows sees the Hard Drive its not the Hard Drive. Contact Apple
I posted to iFixit and am waiting on a response.
I am posting here before I get on and call Apple. I am away on business till Friday anyway. Any help or suggestions is appreciated.
Mac mini, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)