Mac Pro 3.1 & Samsung SSD 840 Pro installation issue

Hi everyone, been having issues with installing ML onto a new MP 3.1 which have purchased recently.

Currently have the SSD drive sitting in spare DVD bay connected with a IDE-Sata converter which drives a SATA B.Ray drive in another MP.

My issue is that while i can copy a version (using CCC) which is installed on 2TB drive (installed myself earlier today - no problems) it wont boot on the SSD drive and quits during loading and results in the Question Mark Icon flashing afterwards.

alternatively when trying to instal a fresh copy of OS X onto the drive it fails at the end with the following message being shown.
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hope there are many forum viewers out there who may be able to provide a solution?

thanks everyone!

Hi There, thanks for the reply.

bsbeamer said:

Curious how you first initialized and formatted the drive. Did you unbox, install drive, and use disk utility to format? If so, did you test read/write abilities as just a normal drive first?
Unbox, instal then used disk utility to partition & reformat to GPT and Extended Journaled format. not sure how to test read/write abilities but it is writeable as files are written on it.

Have you tried hooking the drive directly to one of the SATA bays instead of IDE converter?
Have ordered OWC PCIe Adapter (Sonnet SSD drive holder) so waiting for this to arrive next week (was hoping to initialise and instal OS while waiting).

How big is the disk image on the 2TB drive? How big is the 840 SSD? Are you upgrading OS to 10.8 from something else?
Drive is 256GB and the data on the 2TB drive is approx 11GB files on drive were cloned (no disk image)
Original supplied OS was lion on smaller drive this was replaced with 2TB drive and installation performed today with fresh DL from App Store OS X version 10.8.3

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Hope this helps?
Thanks again.

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VirtualRain said:

I'm not sure what all this is, but I'd start there... Connect the drive to a normal SATA connector and see what happens.

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Thanks i may try to grab a few connectors however at the moment there is no cable supplied with the SSD kit and the adapter plates at the local stores are all the wrong size to fit the trays on a MP.

The other question i'm contemplating is why there are troubles in creating a recovery partition on the drive using CCC..

Thanks for the comments so far.
Cheers

Hardware Issue solved

Hi All thanks for the input on this thread.

The items including a PCIe board are due to arrive end of this week over the interim I did plug the drive into one of the hard drive bay slots and..

Presto works like a charm.

Relieved that the Drive works fine as I had swapped it from a Vector OCZ drive after reading about hardware issues with those units.

thanks for everyone's thoughts and posts~!
Much appreciated