Thanks for the warnings. I'll stick to 10.8.4.
Or maybe not if you want to take advantage of the security fixes of 10.8.5:
http://www.eweek.com/security/apple-updates-mac-os-x-10.8.5-for-security-stability.html
Thanks for the warnings. I'll stick to 10.8.4.
Can confirm that this issue is not isolated -- I'm having it too. Temporary workaround for me was to disable display sleep, which seems to prevent external drives from spinning down. I can't hear the internal drive in my iMac, so I don't know if it helps with internal drives too.
Well for the first time ever... Apple has broken my machines!!
10.8.5 makes my Mac Pro restart after waking from sleep.
Way to go Apple.
Now do I go back to 10.8.4 or go to Mavericks DP7...
Improvements to AFP File Transfer Performance
EDIT - This problem seems to be related to the OWC Accelsior PCIe SSD. Found a thread on Apple forums. If you have one of these PCIe SSD's in your Mac Pro and it's crashing, please send a system report to owc@macsales.com as they have a few customers reporting it but are are having issues recreating the problem.
I can vouch for that. Initially I didn't see any issues other then what sounds like my drives sleeping/waking up (even once it's awake). I never slept the computer, only shut down the display. The option to sleep hard disks was also unchecked.
In an effort to see if I could fix, I set the computer to sleep and 'thought' I set it back (toggling the option). Next time I woke up, what I thought was just the monitor but the entire computer, it crashed and rebooted. I sent the report to Apple (still unknowing that the entire computer had gone to sleep).
It happened the next time again, and that's when I found my error and set the computer not to sleep.
Stay clear of 10.8.5. Crashes after sleep on Mac Pro.
Maybe this is their way of forcing ML folks to Mavericks
EDIT - This problem seems to be related to the OWC Accelsior PCIe SSD. Found a thread on Apple forums. If you have one of these PCIe SSD's in your Mac Pro and it's crashing, please send a system report to owc@macsales.com as they have a few customers reporting it but are are having issues recreating the problem.
Well unless my 6G Sata Card uses the same chip, then it [Accelsior] isn't, because I don't own one of them.
That surprises me as I have yet to know of an OWC product completely hosed by an OS X update. I have an OWC Mercury EXTREME Pro 6G (yeah yeah, I got the SATA III in hopes a new Mac Pro would support it internally). Does this relate to the Accelsior bring PCIe?
I hope that this finally fixes my slow wake from sleep time on my 2012 Macbook Air! Opening the lid and having to wait for 15-20sec before I can even type my password is not instant on - doesn't happen everytime but at least 50% of it.
After installing 10.8.5 update my Seagate external hard drive that I use as my Time Machine backup won't mount. I can see it in Disk Utility, but it refuses to mount.
Anyone else? Suggestions?
Hmm, maybe the problem is bigger than just with the OWC card. I'm not sure if this is the 'chip' in mine, but it shows up as Marvell Raid VD in disk utility (nothing 'brand name' in system report).
Vendor ID: 0x1b4b
Device ID: 0x9230
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x1b4b
Subsystem ID: 0x9230
Revision ID: 0x0010
Regardless, Apple really botched this one up cause despite my crash on sleep, my legacy hard drives seem to sleep all the time, even when the display isn't, regardless of how I set any options in the power settings.
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I'm not sure, but just a guess I don't think so as that is attached to an Apple drive bay, right? Thinking it's got to do with the pcie cards.
Can confirm that this issue is not isolated -- I'm having it too. Temporary workaround for me was to disable display sleep, which seems to prevent external drives from spinning down. I can't hear the internal drive in my iMac, so I don't know if it helps with internal drives too.
The long waited for fix for the beach ball while typing, the pause while listening to audio or watching video still happens with the same frequency.
Apple collected lots of files from lots of users and nothing, they are still stumped.
If that simple problem remains this late in OSX's history what are the odds it will be suddenly fixed with the next version of OSX.
Anyone else continuing to have stuttering issues?
Installed on my 2012 MacBook Air (upgrading from 10.8.4) and now the sound is very "tinny" and the speakers sound awful. I can't see anything in the Sound settings that have changed, and no Equalizer settings in iTunes were changed.
Anyone else have this?
I can now confirm that my Mac Pro on 10.8.5 is spinning down internal drives even though the Energy Saver panel's "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" setting is unchecked. This is different behavior from 10.8.4, and is in my opinion a bad regression.
Note that by this I mean the OS is spinning down the drives when the system is up and running, not just during system sleep. I have system sleep completely disabled.
I will try an SMC reset on the Pro later today.
Drive spin-down is unbelievably annoying on a workstation or server. I can barely tolerate it on my laptop. (Oh, great, it's been 120 seconds; now I have to wait three seconds for the drive to spin back up, during which time the whole damn system locks up.)
It's not supposed to kick in if PowerNap is enabled.
Finally got around to checking this, I have powernap enabled on battery and it still takes a while when I open the screen. I think it's putting itself to sleep when it shouldn't be.