![]() Unfortunately, the Linux system failed during bootup, so I rebooted to the SSD. I figured I'd try the patch on the SSD Plus anyway (and return it to Amazon if it failed), so I burned the ISO to CD and tried to boot it off my external USB Panasonic DVD burner (the internal Superdrive has been dead for years). I found a discussion thread from 2012 on the Sandisk Forums isolating the issue to a finicky NVidia MCP79 SATA chipset on Macs of that era and suggesting going with other drive manufacturers I also found that Sandisk had acknowledged the problem and had released a firmware patch specifically for drives in Macs with the MCP79 chipset, albeit only for the Sandisk Extreme SSD. ![]() I just installed a 6 Gbps SATA III Sandisk SSD Plus in my late 2009 Mac Mini (running El Capitan) and was dismayed to find it operating at a negotiated link speed of 1.5 Gbps. ![]()
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