AustinMac Posted July 24, 2008 Share Posted July 24, 2008 I built a new machine around the Asus A5E-VM HDMI board. This board has six SATA connectors and one PATA connector. Initially I was able to use the PATA connector to copy some older drives to newer SATA II drives, but then I woke up yesterday to see the machine had kernel panicked. I rebooted, and within five minutes it crashed again. I then disabled the JMicron controller in the BIOS, and the machine has been running 24 hours without any problems (and I used it pretty heavily yesterday). Has anyone encountered similar issues? I've seen tons of posts about getting machines to boot on the JMicron controller, but haven't really seen much about stability. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mguk Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 See this topic I also started yesterday, can you see if the official (driver) ktext helps you? http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=117482 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach-os Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 get rid of any pata drives and enable ahci - that´s all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mguk Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 Enabling or disabling IDE makes no difference to me, if I install the official driver. When it does work it makes my mac boot much quicker, under 15 seconds. It just doesn't work very often. Anybody got any ideas of what could be changed on the driver to make it more stable. ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/MAC%20...onATADriver.dmg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach-os Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 Enabling or disabling IDE makes no difference to me, if I install the official driver. When it does work it makes my mac boot much quicker, under 15 seconds. It just doesn't work very often. Anybody got any ideas of what could be changed on the driver to make it more stable. ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw/jmb36x/MAC%20...onATADriver.dmg hellooooooo??? I didn´t say only to disable IDE. I said get rid of any pata drives. disconnect them! put then in your trash can Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinMac Posted July 25, 2008 Author Share Posted July 25, 2008 get rid of any pata drives and enable ahci - that´s all Yeah, I disabled the JMicron controller and that solved the kernel panics. Already had AHCI enabled. The machine has been running two days solid without any crashes at all. Would be nice to use PATA, but I'm not going to cry over it. Much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mguk Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 helllooooo. I have removed my PATA drives and I already have AHCI enabled, it still causes kernel panics. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peach-os Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 did you set the jmicron controller to AHCI also? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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