About four days ago I upgraded the hard disk in my MacBook Pro (the 2009 summer model, unibody with SD card). I took out the 320GB 5400 RPM Fujitsu that it came with, and added a 320GB 7200 RPM Hitachi (Travelstar 7K320-320). After restoring my SuperDuper clone, all worked perfectly, and I had a nice little speed boost.
This morning I went to upgrade my firmware as per the software update, and BAM, my laptop now failed to boot. I did the whole verbose-hold-down-Command-V-when-powering-on to get a verbose dump of what was going on. Eventually, I get this gem: Failed to issue COM RESET successfully after 3 attempts. Failing…
Bummer.
I found only one thread on the Apple Discussion Forum to help me out with this particular error, but it looks like there are several people who are having the same failure to boot or random data errors after updating the firmware, who have installed after market drives [here, here]. There are other reports surfacing on the web about what appears to be the same issue.
So what did I do? Well I yanked my shiny new Hitachi drive out, and threw the Fujitsu drive back in, and we booted fine. Yuck.
In an ongoing attempt to “manage” my “online identity”, I’ve madly been trying to amalgamate all the disparate crap I seem to have all over Teh Internets.
For the past few years, humandoing software has been running SimpleLog, which was a tragic mistake. It quickly went into “no maintenance whatsoever” mode – and has since been a pain in my neck as long as I can remember. I’d finally had enough, added some code to do a full RSS export of the whole thing, imported the blog content to a WordPress install (which you’re currently reading) – and separated the blog from the more “corporate” type site.
I’m still no designer, but thanks to Kuler / ColourLovers and 960grid, I was able to put up a half decent site without too much fuss (half-decent excludes what the site currently looks like in IE6).
Sadly, I wasn’t able to easily preserve the tags and comments from the old blog, so I’ll probably try to update things manually here and there as time goes on.
I’ve tried to 301 as much content as possible – if there is anything missing, send me an email and I’ll try to get you hooked up.
If you haven’t installed apache and php:
sudo apt-get install apache2
sudo apt-get install php5
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Then to enable curl:
sudo apt-get install php5-curl
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart