Well I got the enclosure, but things didn’t go as planned. I got a deal on an enclosure that had once been an Iomega Mac Companion. I installed the SSD, hooked the enclosure up to my Firewire 800 port and it showed up on the desktop. I installed El Capitan and rebooted, but when the Mac rebooted it came up from the internal drive not the external one. Holding down Option while booting showed only the internal drive. The Firewire drive is visible in the Startup Disk preference panel, but selecting it accomplishes nothing. Rebooting it just comes up on the internal drive.
Now for the fun part. It *will* boot if I hook up the drive via USB 2.0. However, that’s pretty slow and I got this enclosure for the faster Firewire 800 port. Another curiosity is that the disk shows up as “External RAID Media” in Disk Utility. It is assuredly not RAID, just a single 256GB SSD. Could this be the problem? I’m in the process of testing the SSD over USB, but results so far are mixed. Any thoughts on getting Firewire working? Thanks, Eric -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
