Hi All,
I have a Mac Pro mid 2010 running El Capitan 10.11 with one open hd slot left and It seems I'm running out of room on my other hard drives. I installed a 4tb sshd about two years ago and had to perform some sort of magic trick to access the whole drive. My question is do I still have to do something special to format the drive in El Capitan using just one partition of 4tb?
Thanks
Mike
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
That bug appeared in 10.8.4, and has not yet been fixed.
using a Disk Utility from any older Mac OS X, including the 10.6 DVD (if your Mac can boot from it) or any saved Installer DVD or thumb drive will work.
Another work-around is to move that drive to an external enclosure and Erase it there (provided your enclosure is modern enough to deal with drives over 2.2TB.
Also
For Internal sled mounting:
The screw-depth penetration for 'bottom-mounting screws adjacent to the platters' on some drives over 3TB have been shortened. This may mean that the sled screws bottom out before they fit snugly and begin to compress the washers on the sled. If this is the case, your drive will not sit flat on the sled, and will not mate with the backplane connector without additional adjustment.
OWC also now sells sleds that uses alternate mounting holes in the HD to avoid that problem.
You can shorten those screws, or put a washer under the heads to ensure they can be made snug in the allowed depth. Also, now OWC/Macsales now sells sleds that use the alternate mounting screw locations to avoid this problem. However, these sleds are only for the 2009 and later Pros
Ok the next question ; Is there a step by step as to how I can do this since I lost all the instructions from the last install?
Thanks,
Mike
Do what specifically?
Yu can just use Disk Utility as normal when booted to OSX 10.8.3 or earlier with internal disk and any OSX version if the disk is installed I an enclosure that supports large drives.
ssorry about the mixup. I real need a step by step instruction guide to formatt a 4 tb internal drive that I am installing in a Mac Pro.
One way:
Put the drive into an external enclosure. Connect it to the Mac Pro. Use disk utility to format it as a single partition. Take it out of the external drive, mount it in the sled for the fourth slot, and insert it into the Mac Pro.
if you have Snow Leopard installed:
Boot from Snow Leopard. Format the drive with Disk Utility while it is installed internally.
Does this still work with the SSHD setup mentioned above, though?
Does this still work with the SSHD setup mentioned above, though?
It should.
Support for SSD drives was working in 10.6.8, so support for initializing them should work as well.
"Large drive" support (with large block size) was added at 10.4.4; 10.5 increased maximum Mac OS Extended drive size to about 8 million TeraBytes.
HI Grant,
So I should be able to format the drive right from the disk utility in El Capitan?
No, you should be able to use either of the two EXCEPTION procedures kahjot specified in his post above, specifically:
a) Initialize in an external enclosure with any version of Mac OS X (10.6 or later) -OR-
b) boot up the 10.6 DVD (for the MacPro 2010 this will be the original Gray DVD that shipped in the box) and use the Utilities available there.
formatting a 4tb hd in El Capitan
