Xserve and Mac Pro: Some services unavailable when starting Mac OS X Server from SSD drive

Products Affected

Apple RAID Card (Early 2009), Mac OS X Server 10.5, Mac OS X Server 10.6, Mac Pro (Mid 2010), Promise VTrak, Xserve (Early 2009), Xserve RAID, Xserve RAID (SFP Late 2004), Xserve RAID (SFP)

Symptoms

In Xserve and some Mac Pro configurations where the Mac OS X Server operating system is installed on an SSD drive and data for services is housed on internal drives, an internal RAID, or an external RAID, some services may not start up properly or may not be able to find the associated data during the startup process.

Resolution

Follow these steps to work around this issue:

  1. Turn off the affected services using Server Admin.
  2. Restart the computer.
  3. When the computer has fully restarted, use Server Admin to turn on the services.
This document will be updated as more information becomes available.
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