I have a 2 TB SSD startup disk inside my 2010 Mac Pro tower, along with three conventional 8TB hard drives. The OS is 10.11.6 El Capitan.
Strange thing: all the drives show up on the desktop on a normal cold start, but if the Mac is running, and I restart it, only the startup drive appears on the desktop. In order to make the other three drives appear again, I have to shut the machine down completely, and then start it back up again.
This happened after I moved all my drives from one Mac Pro tower to another, better one (same year, mid-2010, but with more processors, cores, and memory). I simply pulled all four drives out of the first tower and inserted them into the second one, and started it up.
Of course, all the software detected that it was in a different Mac and demanded fresh license codes and reactivation, but I provided those, and now all the apps work just as they did in the other Mac. In fact everything seems to be working normally except for the fact that on a restart only the startup drive appears.
What might be causing this odd restart behavior, and how might it be cured?
Thanks for any help!
Tup
Strange thing: all the drives show up on the desktop on a normal cold start, but if the Mac is running, and I restart it, only the startup drive appears on the desktop. In order to make the other three drives appear again, I have to shut the machine down completely, and then start it back up again.
This happened after I moved all my drives from one Mac Pro tower to another, better one (same year, mid-2010, but with more processors, cores, and memory). I simply pulled all four drives out of the first tower and inserted them into the second one, and started it up.
Of course, all the software detected that it was in a different Mac and demanded fresh license codes and reactivation, but I provided those, and now all the apps work just as they did in the other Mac. In fact everything seems to be working normally except for the fact that on a restart only the startup drive appears.
What might be causing this odd restart behavior, and how might it be cured?
Thanks for any help!
Tup