Recently I had the pleasure of not having the slightest idea about what was going on. That is a rare thing for me, but I was dotting along, and had a chore of installing a new hard drive into a MacBook Pro. I had told my client that a 250 GB would be a good idea, since the prices at that point in time served the best deal. I went for a Samsung 250GB 2.5 inch drive, and everything was dandy after I installed it. Then I wanted to erase it, and the trouble began. The initialization didn't complete. It hung, and nothing would make it initialize right. So I took the drive out of the mac again, and erased by hooking it up externally. Then it worked fine. Back into the mac, to install leopard. No dice.
Apparently the drive only worked externally. I tried putting into another mac to see if there was something wrong with the MacBook. No. Same deal. It would hang, stop, not respond and just be plain old annoying. I couldn't grasp this, so I thought the drive was faulty somehow. Went for a replacement. Same deal! WHAT GIVES!?
Well... the drive needed a firmware upgrade. I have never in my past 15 years of doctoring, ever known of such a stupid cause of a problem. A firmware upgrade, for a hard-drive? Well. For anybody with the same issues, the files can be found here.
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/faqView.do?b2b_bbs_msg_id=131.0
Download the zip file, unzip, burn the .iso image. Put in the drive, start from the cd by holding down c key. It updates by itself in DOS!!!! Freaky.
After that, it works great!
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