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Apple Support's response to 13" MBP with SATA 1.5

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macat

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I started a new thread to discuss this issue. I thought the old one was getting out of hand. I'm hoping we can provide our responses from Apple Support in this thread.

I just got an email from my support person today and they said the engineering team's response was that the system should run with SATA 1.5 with a standard hard drive and SATA 3.0 when you install an SSD drive.

Of course it does not work, my system shows SATA 1.5 with my Intel x25m drive, but I can see why they would try and implement this if there were any slight benefits.

I have hope that this might get resolved and I'm using Apple's response as proof that the MBP lines do support SATA 3.0. I've sent an email stating the fact that my system still runs in SATA 1.5 mode with an SSD drive. Hopefully I will hear within a week.
 
Yea I agree, the old one is getting to large for its own good.

But that is really good news and would really seem to say that its not a hardware issue after all. However, I am still going to wait for the final outcome before I buy... :D
 
This is how I figured they had programmed the logicboards. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be working. That said, it's a firmware issue and can be upgraded/updated.
 
macat said:
I started a new thread to discuss this issue. I thought the old one was getting out of hand. I'm hoping we can provide our responses from Apple Support in this thread.

I just got an email from my support person today and they said the engineering team's response was that the system should run with SATA 1.5 with a standard hard drive and SATA 3.0 when you install an SSD drive.

Of course it does not work, my system shows SATA 1.5 with my Intel x25m drive, but I can see why they would try and implement this if there were any slight benefits.

I have hope that this might get resolved and I'm using Apple's response as proof that the MBP lines do support SATA 3.0. I've sent an email stating the fact that my system still runs in SATA 1.5 mode with an SSD drive. Hopefully I will hear within a week.
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This would be good if true, but I have trouble believing it. How would it know it's an SSD? It's just a standard SATAII bus. There is no indicator to say "I'm a hardware drive" or "I'm an SSD". Just not believing this explanation.
 
bcaslis said:
This would be good if true, but I have trouble believing it. How would it know it's an SSD? It's just a standard SATAII bus. There is no indicator to say "I'm a hardware drive" or "I'm an SSD". Just not believing this explanation.
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The drive does provide details about itself to the computer. You can see for yourself, just look at the system profiler to see what the computer sees. I don't think it would be too hard for it to figure out if the drive was disk based of SSD based.
 
It doesn't look like it's been mentioned anywhere, but an update just showed up in software update on my new MBP:

"MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7 addresses an issue reported by a small number of customers using drives based on the SATA 3Gbps specification with the June 2009 MacBook Pro. While this update allows drives to use transfer rates greater than 1.5Gbps, Apple has not qualified or offered these drives for Mac notebooks and their use is unsupported."
 
Fender321 said:
"MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.7 addresses an issue reported by a small number of customers using drives based on the SATA 3Gbps specification with the June 2009 MacBook Pro.
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Well there we have it then.

Case closed. Next 1500 post issue please. :)
 
Great news! Just updated the firmware and it looks like we are finally cooking with gas. Now running at 3Gbps.
 
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