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2nd HDD in optical bay issue

Hey,


I have this week, after a terminal drive failure, upgraded my MBP early 2011 to an SSD. I then bought an optical bay HDD caddy and removed the optical drive.


I have purchased a brand new 1TB Toshiba SATA II 5400rpm hard drive to go into the optical bay.


I cannot however get the drive to show in OSX or in the recovery parttion. This morning, I recieved a pop up message saying the disk couldnt be initialised. I clicked initialise and it opened Disk Utility and the drive displayed correctly.


I then attemtped to format the drive but got the message, unable to write to last block of the device.



Here is the log from my format attempt,


2013-11-09 08:24:01 +0000: Preparing to erase : “Untitled”

2013-11-09 08:24:01 +0000: Partition Scheme: GUID Partition Table

2013-11-09 08:24:01 +0000: 1 volume will be created

2013-11-09 08:24:01 +0000: Name : “Untitled”

2013-11-09 08:24:01 +0000: Size : 1 TB

2013-11-09 08:24:01 +0000: File system : Mac OS Extended (Journaled)



2013-11-09 08:24:01 +0000: Unmounting disk

2013-11-09 08:25:06 +0000: Disk Erase failed with the error:



Unable to write to the last block of the device.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Nov 9, 2013 2:06 AM

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Posted on Nov 9, 2013 2:49 AM

You either have a defective drive or the cable is defective or you have not connected the cable properly or the caddy you have is defective.


Connect the drive to your Mac with a SATA to USB adapter or enclosure (I like the adapters better as they can be used with many different type drives and even CD/DVD drives) and see if you can format it Mac OS Extended (Journaled). If you can then the drive is OK and it is either the cable or the caddy that is faulty.

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Nov 9, 2013 2:49 AM in response to Andy Semak

You either have a defective drive or the cable is defective or you have not connected the cable properly or the caddy you have is defective.


Connect the drive to your Mac with a SATA to USB adapter or enclosure (I like the adapters better as they can be used with many different type drives and even CD/DVD drives) and see if you can format it Mac OS Extended (Journaled). If you can then the drive is OK and it is either the cable or the caddy that is faulty.

Nov 12, 2013 8:56 AM in response to LowLuster

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

The drive was indeed fauty. I have since taken it back and swapped for a Western Digital drive.

I connected the WD drive via USB and formatted it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). The drive still doesn't show in Disk Utility. I can hear the drive spinning on boot up but it isn't visible.


I have a new HDD drive bay arriving tomorrow so I will update you.

2nd HDD in optical bay issue

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