I reinstalled SL onto the 320GB HDD that came with the computer via firewire and Target Disk mode (I had converted it to a storage drive) but was unable to write to the SSD. One day when I got home from work I got a kernel panic and my computer refused to boot. I recently replaced the SuperDrive with a Kingston SSD and everything was working fine for a few weeks. I found a guy on ebay who does logicboard repairs rather than replacements (saved me hundreds) and my computer worked fine for a couple months. My logic board suffered some unfortunate liquid damage earlier this year (MBP wouldn't even boot). How do I prove that the second slot, where optical drive is bad, if Apple says they don't support external hardware? What are the chances both Optibay and OKO are actually dead?
Why would my OSX installation, on the stock 320 SATA drive freeze for so long after booting when there is something in the second slot? Will try and replace, but if it's not that - what is it? MacBook Pro 15" Unibody (Mid 2009-Mid 2012) SATA SuperDrive Cable I guess the SATA connector part may be bad: Right?Īpple says everything is fine, cause when the superdrive is there, there are no errors. It must be logic board on the Optical Drive slot thats haywire, or the connector that is bad. If I take out the Optibay, all boots well with my stock 320 OSX installation. I tried using the real Optibay with both my SSD AND the 'dead' hard drive, (which works fine externally) and same issues. So drives are ok, must be the OKO right? I order the real Optibay, and lo and behold, same issues. Then, I plug my data drive, that apple deemed as dead, and that works too via my external! This is getting interesting. Right? I take my firewire external and plug my SSD in, and I am able to boot from my SSD just fine. For about 6-7 minutes, then all my clicks 'register' and my system works, but Disk Utility does not see my SSD. Desktop appears, but I tried clicking everywhere and nothing happens. Came home, put SSD and OKO back, system boots, but unresponsive. Put everything back to stock config, brought to Apple, they deemed their original 320 drive as dead, replaced it with a new, and gave me the old 'dead' drive. Then, one day starting my laptop gives me the dreaded Question Mark.
At this point, SSD is primary boot device, and the original 320GB SATA drive is in the original location, acting as my data drive. Bought in 2010, removed SuperDrive, instead put in an Optibay Knock Off (let's call this OKO), and a OCZ Vertex 2. This is a long one, but here's the recap:
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