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Anyone try osx86 on a ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 motherboard? Or perhaps another motherboard based on the ULi M1695 chipset? (Is there even another currently on the market?

 

Check it out at newegg. the board has AGP AND PCI-E, and is only $69!

 

I want this board! And I want it to work with osx86!

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Good to hear; thanks for posting.

 

I'm not suprised that onboard network and sound don't work, seems like this is a common case with a variety of mobos. Network and sound can always be added on using supported pci cards. Not finding the cd-rom seems kinda strange though.

 

Regardless I think I'll order this board...many features for little cost and it'll run osx86.

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it works for me except for sata/sata2 audio and network. cdrom is ok, though it must be on slave on the primary ide channel (hd must be master) else it doesnt work. I added a cheap realtek for network and will add a cheap sound card. speed & reliability is great

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what bios are you using in you asrock dual-sata2 ?? im using 1.5

 

for me don't work, i installed mac-os x86 with deadmoo "tiger-x86-flat.img" image from xp, to another partition 7gb.

 

but when i boot in the dual boot to mac-os x86, it don't boot and i check with -V and i have this error

"still waiting for root device" after Applegeneric pcatadriver or something like that.

 

i tried everything in this forum, my HD is in master primary, and i disconected the cds and all my pci cards, -X (safe mode), and don't boot.

 

any help please????

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I have the same issue on my 939dual sata2; I don't know what the bios version is at the moment; but booting from the 8f1111 DVD, I only get the same error message

still waiting for root device

 

I may try the vmware install method next.

 

regards,

-e

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I have this mobo and have the SATA2 controller working (JMicron). I had to edit the AppleVIAATA.kext and AppleAHCIPort.kext to make it work. Just add the hardware ID's to these two kext. And of course you need a SATA2 capable hard drive.. :-/

 

I know it was under section "Generic AHCI" in the AHCIport.kext, but not sure where it was in AppleVIAATA.... if someone needs Ill have a look in it.

 

Hope this helps some SATA2 folks around :dev:

 

 

ASrock 939DualSata2

AMD 3000+ SSE3 Venice

ATI X850XT

Hitachi SATA2 DD

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I have this mobo and have the SATA2 controller working (JMicron). I had to edit the AppleVIAATA.kext and AppleAHCIPort.kext to make it work. Just add the hardware ID's to these two kext. And of course you need a SATA2 capable hard drive.. :-/

 

I know it was under section "Generic AHCI" in the AHCIport.kext, but not sure where it was in AppleVIAATA.... if someone needs Ill have a look in it.

 

Hope this helps some SATA2 folks around ;)

ASrock 939DualSata2

AMD 3000+ SSE3 Venice

ATI X850XT

Hitachi SATA2 DD

 

 

I need this desperately. I noticed that OS X detected the Generic AHCI (null) device in system profiler, but it wouldn't see the drive. Please let me know what is needed. Thanks.

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Hi, I I have this mobo and one of fews Sempron +3000 on 939 Socket.

I Usu the dvd installation method but when I Boot the system to install. The sytem lock on the grey screen with apple logo and the advice (\).

What can I do???

Maybe the installation program doesn't recognize the cd rom properly cause is on 2nd channel?? (IDE).

But the installazione precess start so should be it works (the cd rom).

ANy suggestions??

Thanks Mik

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Hi, I I have this mobo and one of fews Sempron +3000 on 939 Socket.

I Usu the dvd installation method but when I Boot the system to install. The sytem lock on the grey screen with apple logo and the advice (\).

What can I do???

Maybe the installation program doesn't recognize the cd rom properly cause is on 2nd channel?? (IDE).

But the installazione precess start so should be it works (the cd rom).

ANy suggestions??

Thanks Mik

 

Hey,

 

second channel is not recognized at all. I recommend putting the DVD drive on Primary Master and HDD on Primary Slave. That should work.

 

Good luck.

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OK I couldn't post earlier a I'm getting "Asrocked" and having plenty of reboot issues. Couldn't boot windows, osx or vista til now, NEVER put optical drive in primary master while using SATA or SATA2...

 

Ok I don't have osx installed right now, but what I did is editing the AppleVIAATA.kext/Contents/Info.plist and setting the hardware ID of the JMicron chip, which is 0X2360197B. Did the same in AppleAHCIport.kext, in fact I completely removed the ICH7 part in the plist to only leave "Generic AHCI".

 

Hope this helps, I did it a few times in 10.4.3, 10.4.4 and 10.4.5 and always worked... don't bother with IOATAFamily...

 

Good luck

 

ASrock 939DualSata2

AMD 3000+ SSE3 Venice

ATI X850XT

Hitachi SATA2 DD 250GB

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Ok, so I tried those things and they didn't work. I went into AppleAHCIport.kext and changed the IOPCIClassMatch to the new hardware ID you provided, and did the same in AppleVIAATA.kext as well, repaired permissions and rebooted. The drive still doesn't show up. I then thought that maybe I needed to delete the kextcache files and then reboot. After the reboot, it sits at the grey apple screen for a long time. At this point, I needed to leave for a class, so I haven't checked it yet. If it is working when I get back, then all is good, but if not, can you think of any other reason why it didn't work? I am using 10.4.5 with the AppleVIAATA.kext from 10.4.3 since it was not available in the 10.4.5 or 10.4.4 updates. Do I have to change the version number of it or anything? Thanks for your help.

 

PS

 

I know what you mean about being "Asrocked".

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I bought a Asus Rock 775Dual-915GV after looking at the hardware compatibility list for motherboards. I bought it when I saw that it was a board that claimed to be 100% supported and which required zero configuration - and so far that has proved to be true.

 

It also allowed for the greatest degree of flexibility. I can use the fully supported on board video, or I can use an AGP card or a PCI express video card, or I can use all three at the same time for multiple display support, it has PAE/NX support, it used both standard and DDR II memory, it has a very usable and fully recognised 7.1 audio codec/chip - and it is small enough to fit into many very cool enclosures.

 

As for stability - so far it seems rock stable - but I have yet to do extensive testing on it as I have only had it a few hours.

 

But over all it seems like the ideal OSX/XP/Linux based system.

 

I also got a 3.2GHZ 775 processor from eBay for £70 (which was a total bargain really) and all in all the system cost me about £200 to put together. With 1GB of DDR 2 and a 400GB drive this leveled out at about £300 - for a system that would cost 3 times as much if I were to buy it from Apple.

 

So all in all it seems to have worked out pretty well.

 

GJ

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I bought a Asus Rock 775Dual-915GV after looking at the hardware compatibility list for motherboards. I bought it when I saw that it was a board that claimed to be 100% supported and which required zero configuration - and so far that has proved to be true.

 

It also allowed for the greatest degree of flexibility. I can use the fully supported on board video, or I can use an AGP card or a PCI express video card, or I can use all three at the same time for multiple display support, it has PAE/NX support, it used both standard and DDR II memory, it has a very usable and fully recognised 7.1 audio codec/chip - and it is small enough to fit into many very cool enclosures.

 

As for stability - so far it seems rock stable - but I have yet to do extensive testing on it as I have only had it a few hours.

 

But over all it seems like the ideal OSX/XP/Linux based system.

 

I also got a 3.2GHZ 775 processor from eBay for £70 (which was a total bargain really) and all in all the system cost me about £200 to put together. With 1GB of DDR 2 and a 400GB drive this leveled out at about £300 - for a system that would cost 3 times as much if I were to buy it from Apple.

 

So all in all it seems to have worked out pretty well.

 

GJ

 

Raid,

 

I've buy this motherboard today.

 

Video is OK, CI + QE wonderfull.

 

Still cannot do networking and audio because don't have some files from 10.4.3.

Can you send me those? i don't wanna download 10.4.3 just for a few files.

 

My email es xfiles@gmail.com

 

Tks!

Pablo

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SUCCESS!!! I have SATA2 working!! Only one problem which is probably unrelated though. I hooked up the same SATA drive to a USB enclosure that I have and one partition mounted, showed the correct drive capacity and free space, but didn't have a single file in it. Now, when I hook it up using SATA2, I have the same problem. Both of the partitions on the drive are NTFS, but only one of them every file is available. Anyone else have this problem?

 

Thanks again for the SATA2 help.

 

Later.

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Raid,

 

I've buy this motherboard today.

 

Video is OK, CI + QE wonderfull.

 

Still cannot do networking and audio because don't have some files from 10.4.3.

Can you send me those? i don't wanna download 10.4.3 just for a few files.

 

My email es xfiles@gmail.com

 

Tks!

Pablo

 

Which files? I'm afraid I haven't tested networking as those were just my initial bench impressions of this board - which in turn were taken from the hardware compatability list. I simply bought the board that claimed to be the most compatable. Sound seems to be OK - although again I didn't get to test it too much as I scrubbed the 10.4.3 install and started downloading 10.4.4. (I do still have 10.4.3 in VMWare if this is any use to you?).

 

The only limitation I found that I don't like is that this board seems to be restricted to 7.1 out sound (which is still cool!) but with no digital SPDIF input/output. I guess that can be fixed by looking at the harware compatability list and picking a cheap suitably equiiped sound card if you must have SPDIF.

 

Also if networking is an issue - I guess the only answer is to buy a similarly cheap/compatable networking card.

 

But again as I said the hardware compatability list appears to say that everything does work, without any additional messing about at all, so all I did when I bought this board is to go by this.

 

GJ

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I tired to do this but got stuck because the hybrid 10.4.4/10.4.5 disk I heard can not be edited by ultra iso. Someone would have to do it in linux using the program the guys used to create the dvd. If you open the iso up in ultra iso it says the name of the linux program under the created by tab.

 

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Does anyone have any suggestions on how to modify the 10.4.4 install DVD that is circulating so that I can boot off CD-ROM and install directly to SATA2 drive? I'm building an Opteron Asrock 939 on 250 GB SATA2.

 

Thanks!

 

Were trying to get this to work over in the SATA nForce 3 thread, here is the post I made there

 

 

ok for those trying to make a bootable installer DVD that recognizes SATA try the fallowing steps

 

-Edit the AppleVIAATA kext with your nforce chipset device ID's in a working x86 OSX install

-Repair permissions in your /System/Library directory (use "chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions && chmod -R 0755 /System/Library/Extensions" no quotes)

-Delete the old Extensions.mkext file in /System/Library

-Create a new one with the fallowing command "kextcache -l -m Extensions.mkext Extensions" (no quotes)

-Copy this custom Extensions.mkext file into /System/Library of your ISO DVD installer (replacing the old file)

-To make your ISO writable, mount it with this command "hdiutil attach -readwrite ImageName.iso"

-Repair permissions on the ISO image

-Burn away!

 

Could someone that has got SATA working on thier system check if this work? I unfortunatly dont have my x86 system handy right now and cant test this :/

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Were trying to get this to work over in the SATA nForce 3 thread, here is the post I made there

ok for those trying to make a bootable installer DVD that recognizes SATA try the fallowing steps

 

-Edit the AppleVIAATA kext with your nforce chipset device ID's in a working x86 OSX install

-Repair permissions in your /System/Library directory (use "chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions && chmod -R 0755 /System/Library/Extensions" no quotes)

-Delete the old Extensions.mkext file in /System/Library

-Create a new one with the fallowing command "kextcache -l -m Extensions.mkext Extensions" (no quotes)

-Copy this custom Extensions.mkext file into /System/Library of your ISO DVD installer (replacing the old file)

-To make your ISO writable, mount it with this command "hdiutil attach -readwrite ImageName.iso"

-Repair permissions on the ISO image

-Burn away!

 

Could someone that has got SATA working on thier system check if this work? I unfortunatly dont have my x86 system handy right now and cant test this :/

 

I did this DVD, but it seems to not be useful.....

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