I have a white MacBook. Not sure what year, but reasonably recent...probably 2009 or so. The model number is worn off the bottom. The hard drive died. Just started going click, click, click.

So I got a Samsung SSD 830 series (MZ-7PC128) 128 Gig drive to replace the toasted drive. The additional difficulty is that the superdrive is not working either. Just immediately spits out any disc that is put in. So I used my other computer to image the OSX Snow Leopard DVD to a 8 gig USB memory stick and booted off that. It worked perfectly and completed the installation with no errors.

However, when trying to boot off the SSD, it just sits at the gray apple screen and spins indefinitely. Have tried resetting the PRAM. Won't boot into safe mode either.

When doing a verbose boot, near the end of the log, there are several lines that look like this:

IOHDIXController::createDriveInKernel: returning error 0x6b

Any ideas on what to try?

EDIT: looks like SSD firmware can only be updated on PC and I only have another Mac.