Screw you, Jobu. I fix it myself!

So after much ado, My mac is back up and running. It took some digging and whatnot and I had to get this snazzy utility from the Hitachi web site that is DOS based only. It will boot youe intel Mac up but the keyboard won't work. Steve Jobs owes me about 700 bucks for all the time I spent troubleshooting and solving Apple's problem for them. Actually me and another dude on the Mac forum. He found the link to the Hitachi site. Go dude.

So here are the steps I took: 1. Left the offending drive in my MBP formatted as a Mac Drive 2. Booted to my "old" 250 gig drive that originally came with the system that I put in an external enclosure via USB. 3. Used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone my "old" drive to the offending drive since the OS recognized the offending drive and it could be written to. 4. Went to see Transformers 2 (optional) 5. Pulled offending drive out of the MBP and hooked it up to my PC. 6. Ran the Hitachi "Set my drive to 1.5 GBPS cripple" utility. 7. Put Offending drive back in MBP. 8. Booted up fine. 9. Ran Xbench 10. Copy and pasted results here. Your mileage may vary. Results 106.99 System Info Xbench Version 1.3 System Version 10.5.7 (9J3050) Physical RAM 4096 MB Model MacBookPro5,4 Drive Type Hitachi HTS545050B9A300 CPU Test 168.17 GCD Loop 295.54 15.58 Mops/sec Floating Point Basic 142.42 3.38 Gflop/sec vecLib FFT 119.30 3.94 Gflop/sec Floating Point Library 200.07 34.84 Mops/sec Thread Test 308.16 Computation 450.50 9.13 Mops/sec, 4 threads Lock Contention 234.17 10.07 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads Memory Test 157.00 System 166.79 Allocate 224.10 822.98 Kalloc/sec Fill 142.60 6933.57 MB/sec Copy 153.57 3172.02 MB/sec Stream 148.30 Copy 142.28 2938.80 MB/sec Scale 138.04 2851.81 MB/sec Add 157.84 3362.28 MB/sec Triad 157.12 3361.10 MB/sec Quartz Graphics Test 141.78 Line 133.59 8.89 Klines/sec [50% alpha] Rectangle 165.98 49.55 Krects/sec [50% alpha] Circle 140.57 11.46 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha] Bezier 141.87 3.58 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha] Text 131.71 8.24 Kchars/sec OpenGL Graphics Test 102.21 Spinning Squares 102.21 129.66 frames/sec User Interface Test 142.70 Elements 142.70 654.93 refresh/sec Disk Test 38.43 Sequential 99.94 Uncached Write 94.79 58.20 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 108.14 61.18 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 83.51 24.44 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 121.16 60.90 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 23.79 Uncached Write 7.60 0.80 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 72.26 23.13 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 67.55 0.48 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 125.21 23.23 MB/sec [256K blocks]