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[spl237]

dougaa, on Apr 7 2011, 12:55 PM, said:

Hi.  What BIOS settings do you have for the ICH10R SATA ports?  Are they set to AHCI?  AHCI is best for OS X.  Also, how does the ICH10R show up in System Profiler under Serial-ATA?  Does it show up as ICH10R or as something else?

All SATA ports are set to AHCI in the BIOS. Under System Profiler, the 6 ICH10R ports show up as ICH10R - the other ports (the Gigabyte-controlled ones) come up as unknown.

[spl237]

Ah - ok, some more information now I'm actually sitting in front of the PC.

I've just used MultiBeast to install the JMicron36xSATA and JMicron36xeSATA kexts - this has resulted in the Windows drives on the desktop having the correct (internal) drive icons - before they were showing as external drives.

The SATA page on System Profiler reports the 6 IHC10R ports as "Intel ESB2 AHCI" - not sure that's right, so I'll do some digging there. The two SATA3 ports which have the Win7 drives are still listed as "Unknown AHCI Standard Controller", as are 6 other AHCI ports. One of those has an entry of "MARVELL VIRTUAL".

A couple of things about this confuse me. First is that the mobo has 12 SATA ports (6 controlled by the IHC10R, 2 SATA3 ports controlled by the Marvell 9128, 2 SATA2 ports controlled by the Gigabyte chip, and 2 eSATA ports on the back controlled by the JMicron chip.) But profiler is showing 14 - 6 as IntelESB2, 2 which have the Win7 drives (which are the Marvell), and then 6 more - where did they come from?

Is the "Intel ESB2" the same as an IHC10R? If not, do I need a different driver for those ports? Are there other drivers for the other SATA controllers that are currently labelled as Unknown? And finally, why did loading the JMicron kexts affect the Win7 drives that aren't on a JMicron controller?

Any bright ideas gratefully received...

[dougaa]

spl237, on Apr 7 2011, 02:26 PM, said:

Is the "Intel ESB2" the same as an IHC10R? If not, do I need a different driver for those ports? Are there other drivers for the other SATA controllers that are currently labelled as Unknown? And finally, why did loading the JMicron kexts affect the Win7 drives that aren't on a JMicron controller?

I'll try to write more later, but just quickly, Intel ESB2 is not the same as ICH10R.  You can get it to show up as ICH10R and solve the orange icon problem with the right setup.   It's not clear how much of a problem it causes to use Intel ESB2, but disk drives are not something you want to take chances with.

[dougaa]

spl237, on Apr 7 2011, 02:26 PM, said:

I've just used MultiBeast to install the JMicron36xSATA and JMicron36xeSATA kexts - this has resulted in the Windows drives on the desktop having the correct (internal) drive icons - before they were showing as external drives.

I looked at those kexts for my own machine, and as far as I can tell, you're expected to choose one or other, depending on whether your JMicron drives should be treated as SATA or eSATA.  If you install both, I think the one that loads first is used, and the other one is ignored.  Having to choose one is a problem for this motherboard, because the JMicron chips are used for both.  So far, I've only used the JMicron ports for eSATA, so I installed the eSATA kext.  I'd recommend using the ICH10 ports first for SATA drives, because I think the ICH10 has the best support.

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The SATA page on System Profiler reports the 6 IHC10R ports as "Intel ESB2 AHCI" - not sure that's right, so I'll do some digging there. The two SATA3 ports which have the Win7 drives are still listed as "Unknown AHCI Standard Controller", as are 6 other AHCI ports. One of those has an entry of "MARVELL VIRTUAL".

A couple of things about this confuse me. First is that the mobo has 12 SATA ports (6 controlled by the IHC10R, 2 SATA3 ports controlled by the Marvell 9128, 2 SATA2 ports controlled by the Gigabyte chip, and 2 eSATA ports on the back controlled by the JMicron chip.) But profiler is showing 14 - 6 as IntelESB2, 2 which have the Win7 drives (which are the Marvell), and then 6 more - where did they come from?

The Gigabyte chip is actually a second JMicron chip.  This is how the SATA controllers show up using "lspci" in linux on my machine:

00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801JI (ICH10 Family) SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3a22]
01:00.0 SATA controller [0106]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device [1b4b:9128] (rev 11)
06:00.0 SATA controller [0106]: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller [197b:2363] (rev 02)
07:00.0 SATA controller [0106]: JMicron Technology Corp. JMB362/JMB363 Serial ATA Controller [197b:2363] (rev 03)

Since both JMicron chips have the same id numbers, 197b:2363, the same kext will get loaded for both.  The rev 02 JMicron chip is for the two eSATA connection, and the rev 03 JMicron chip is the "Gigabyte" chip for SATA 8 and 9.  That explain why four JMicron ports show up.  The Marvell 9128 is documented as having two ports (SATA 6 and 7), and I don't know why so many more show up.  The extra ports and MARVELL VIRTUALL may have something to do with the Marvell RAID controller.

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Is the "Intel ESB2" the same as an IHC10R? If not, do I need a different driver for those ports?

Some people use these motherboards with it showing up as ESB2, but it seems best to me to have it match the actual controller.  I use IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext and a DSDT which result in those ports showing up as ICH10, and don't get any orange icons. I posted my DSDT for BIOS FF not too long ago.

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Are there other drivers for the other SATA controllers that are currently labelled as Unknown?

I think the other ports are all for the Marvell chip.  As far as I know there isn't a kext available for it.  I'd also like to know if there is one.

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And finally, why did loading the JMicron kexts affect the Win7 drives that aren't on a JMicron controller?

If they're connected to SATA 8 or 9, it's due to what I said about how it's actually a JMicron controller.

[spl237]

Many thanks for the very detailed reply.

I've just flashed the BIOS to FF - I was on FB. I first tried the default DSDT from the tonymac database, but added the IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector kext from MultiBeast. This then correctly identified 4 SATA ports as JMicron, but left the ICH10s as ESB2. I then found your custom DSDT and used that, and I now have 6 ports correctly labelled as ICH10, which is an improvement!

Oddly, since adding IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector, System Profiler now finds even more SATA ports, for a grand total of 18! 6 are labelled as Intel ICH10, 4 are JMicron JMB363 eSATA, and the rest are still unknown - these include the two Marvell SATA3 ports.

When I booted after that, it did find the optical drives on the first couple of attempts, so certainly nothing is worse - I'll run it for a day or two and see if it finds them any more reliably.

Just out of interest, which kexts do you have in /Extra/Extensions? I've currently got IOAHCIBlock..., fakesmc and Legacy889HDA, plus the three JMicron36x ones, which it sounds like I could slim down a bit.

Very many thanks for the help.

[dougaa]

spl237, on Apr 8 2011, 03:35 AM, said:

Many thanks for the very detailed reply.

I've just flashed the BIOS to FF - I was on FB. I first tried the default DSDT from the tonymac database, but added the IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector kext from MultiBeast. This then correctly identified 4 SATA ports as JMicron, but left the ICH10s as ESB2. I then found your custom DSDT and used that, and I now have 6 ports correctly labelled as ICH10, which is an improvement!

Oddly, since adding IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector, System Profiler now finds even more SATA ports, for a grand total of 18! 6 are labelled as Intel ICH10, 4 are JMicron JMB363 eSATA, and the rest are still unknown - these include the two Marvell SATA3 ports.

When I booted after that, it did find the optical drives on the first couple of attempts, so certainly nothing is worse - I'll run it for a day or two and see if it finds them any more reliably.

Just out of interest, which kexts do you have in /Extra/Extensions? I've currently got IOAHCIBlock..., fakesmc and Legacy889HDA, plus the three JMicron36x ones, which it sounds like I could slim down a bit.

Very many thanks for the help.

Glad to hear what I wrote was helpful.  I attached the entire contents that I use for a USB stick or partition to boot my machine, including the Extra folder.  For com.apple.Boot.plist, you'd want to remove or change Default Partition and Hide Partition.  Also, the memory speed in smbios.plist if it's not 1600.  In System kexts are kexts I either add or replace in /System/Library/Extensions.  You probably won't need the patched IONetworkingFamily.kext, it's for an Intel Ethernet PCI card I use (it's supposed to work much better than the Realtek chip.)  JMicronATA.kext is only needed if you use the IDE connector.  VoodooPS2Controller only works if you boot in 32-bit mode. fakesmc.kext is patched to have information for a MacPro4,1, matching smbios.plist.  My setup is based on previous posts by maleorderbride, and d00d's guide at http://www.insanelym...howtopic=196771, which is amazing.

Attached Files

•  snowboot.dmg.zip   7.33MB   101 downloads

[spl237]

That's really helpful, thanks again. I've just had a quick look at the guide you pointed to, and my head is spinning slightly - I think I have some serious reading to do this weekend!

[spl237]

Hmmm. Well, I'm still slightly baffled. I still get occasional failures to detect the optical drives. I've tried everything I can think of - combinations of kexts, different SATA ports etc. I've even created my own DSDT.aml by extracting a vanilla one from my BIOS and applying recommended patches - which was an interesting exercise!

One thing did occur to me last night. I have the eject menu on the menu bar next to the clock, but only one of the drives ever appears in it - the TSST (Samsung) DVD burner. The other drive - a Sony DVD-ROM - doesn't. If I put a disc in, it appears on the desktop and I can eject by dragging it to the trash, but I get no sign on the eject menu. So maybe the problem is this drive? I've just swapped it for a TSST identical to the other one, and both now show up in the menu. I might pick up a cheap TSST DVD-ROM - I have two different types of drive so as to enable me to compare audio disk rips against each other, so I don't want identical burners - and see if that makes a difference. Or is it that only disk writers show up in that menu and disk readers don't?

[eledu71]

HI! I'm getting my GA-X58A-UD3R + i7 950 + 5770 next week.
Now, I see this post is 29 pages long and has almost 600 replies....
I have no problems to read them all, but... is there any updated guide? Because if it exists, I can't find it!
Best regards.

[dougaa]

eledu71, on Apr 14 2011, 12:06 PM, said:

HI! I'm getting my GA-X58A-UD3R + i7 950 + 5770 next week.
Now, I see this post is 29 pages long and has almost 600 replies....
I have no problems to read them all, but... is there any updated guide? Because if it exists, I can't find it!
Best regards.

Everything I've learned from guides and my experience is included in the files I posted just a few back, http://www.insanelym...p...t&p=1667613.  Those assume you've updated the BIOS to version FF.  Also, my BIOS settings are here: http://www.insanelym...p...t&p=1623201  Although that post is for BIOS FE, the settings didn't change for FF.

[eledu71]

dougaa, on Apr 14 2011, 06:14 PM, said:

Everything I've learned from guides and my experience is included in the files I posted just a few back, http://www.insanelym...p...t&p=1667613.  Those assume you've updated the BIOS to version FF.  Also, my BIOS settings are here: http://www.insanelym...p...t&p=1623201  Although that post is for BIOS FE, the settings didn't change for FF.

Wow thanks.... I cant wait to have everything here!
THANKS AGAIN!

[Goldbloom58]

After running multi-beast, Snow Leopard crashes during the boot up unless its in safe mode.

I installed my system by reseting my bios, and setting it up as mentioned in my specs below (AHCI enabled, followed an earlier post). Afterwards, I boot with iBoot, run Snow Leopard, and use Disk Utility to format one hard drive as Mac Os Extended Journaled, and the other as MS-DOS. I put in my Windows 7 CD and shut down. I unplug my OSX partitioned hard drive, and boot up.

At the windows 7 installation prompt, I format the MS-Dos partition as NTFS, and install Windows 7. Once installed and at the desktop, I insert iBoot, turn off the computer. I replug the OSX hard drive and boot up into iboot. I then switch the cd to Snow Leopard and boot into it. At this point I proceed to install Snow Leopard on the OSX formatted hard drive. The installation goes fine, and Snow Leopard boots up, though slightly laggy (im sure its due to the drivers being generic).

At this point I install the apple combo update 10.6.7, then run multi-beast, before I restart. On the settings, I have tried the easy install option and the custom DSDT: "GA_X58A_UD3R_Rev2_FF_DSDT.zip", which was posted on this forum. Both cause the same problem, and both were attempted separately on a fresh install of Snow Leopard. I have even tried running  snowboot.dmg.zip posted here in safe mode (after I was unable to boot into Snow Leopard), but to no avail. Any idea what could be causing Snow Leopard to crash during booting up? iBoot also fails to boot into Snow Leopard after multibeast is executed.

I have 6 gigs of ram installed on the system, and a wireless card plugged in. I am going to try unplugging a 2 gig stick of ram, and the wireless card to see if I can boot into SL later today, but I have a gut feeling that that is not the problem here.

Mother Board: GA-X58A-UD3R rev. 2.0
Bios Version: FF (Checked for successful installation)
Bios Settings:
http://www.insanelym...p;#entry1623201
CPU: i7-950
Graphics Card: EVGA Geforce GTX 465 Superclocked
Also, I am using a retail version of Snow Leopard

[Goldbloom58]

Goldbloom58, on Apr 24 2011, 03:21 PM, said:

After running multi-beast, Snow Leopard crashes during the boot up unless its in safe mode.

I installed my system by reseting my bios, and setting it up as mentioned in my specs below (AHCI enabled, followed an earlier post). Afterwards, I boot with iBoot, run Snow Leopard, and use Disk Utility to format one hard drive as Mac Os Extended Journaled, and the other as MS-DOS. I put in my Windows 7 CD and shut down. I unplug my OSX partitioned hard drive, and boot up.

At the windows 7 installation prompt, I format the MS-Dos partition as NTFS, and install Windows 7. Once installed and at the desktop, I insert iBoot, turn off the computer. I replug the OSX hard drive and boot up into iboot. I then switch the cd to Snow Leopard and boot into it. At this point I proceed to install Snow Leopard on the OSX formatted hard drive. The installation goes fine, and Snow Leopard boots up, though slightly laggy (im sure its due to the drivers being generic).

At this point I install the apple combo update 10.6.7, then run multi-beast, before I restart. On the settings, I have tried the easy install option and the custom DSDT: "GA_X58A_UD3R_Rev2_FF_DSDT.zip", which was posted on this forum. Both cause the same problem, and both were attempted separately on a fresh install of Snow Leopard. I have even tried running  snowboot.dmg.zip posted here in safe mode (after I was unable to boot into Snow Leopard), but to no avail. Any idea what could be causing Snow Leopard to crash during booting up? iBoot also fails to boot into Snow Leopard after multibeast is executed.

I have 6 gigs of ram installed on the system, and a wireless card plugged in. I am going to try unplugging a 2 gig stick of ram, and the wireless card to see if I can boot into SL later today, but I have a gut feeling that that is not the problem here.

Mother Board: GA-X58A-UD3R rev. 2.0
Bios Version: FF (Checked for successful installation)
Bios Settings:
http://www.insanelym...p;#entry1623201
CPU: i7-950
Graphics Card: EVGA Geforce GTX 465 Superclocked
Also, I am using a retail version of Snow Leopard

Getting rid of the wireless card solved the problem!

[Goldbloom58]

Anyone get the on board audio to work?

[dougaa]

Goldbloom58, on Apr 24 2011, 09:47 PM, said:

Anyone get the on board audio to work?

Yes, with the files I posted a few posts back (snowboot.dmg), the on-board audio works.  I have ALC8xxHDA.kext in my Extra folder, and also have to install an replacement for AppleHDA.kext in /System/Library/Extensions.  I think that's the only solution I found where the front case output works, as well as the connector on the motherboard.

EDIT: If those kexts don't work for you, you may also have to use my DSDT.  There is a change to the DSDT related to audio support.

[kludgedean]

Just a heads up, Thanks to this hread, I nailed OSX 10.6.7 so easily, it was wonderful!.
I've not updated my BIOS to FF yet, so will have to do that (Notable change is support for 3TB HDDs).

Also, Just in case anyone knows, I've been working on getting 10.7 (dev preview 2) to work, and I'm successful upto the part where you pick the language, and click continue, it complains about it not being able to be installed :'(

Upon lots of reading, it's supposedly something about a PlatformSupport.plist (which amusingly I cannot find). I've asked about on the forum, and hope at some point to contribute to a thread on getting our board OSX10.7 successful <3

[dougaa]

kludgedean, on Apr 26 2011, 10:25 AM, said:

Just a heads up, Thanks to this hread, I nailed OSX 10.6.7 so easily, it was wonderful!.
I've not updated my BIOS to FF yet, so will have to do that (Notable change is support for 3TB HDDs).

Also, Just in case anyone knows, I've been working on getting 10.7 (dev preview 2) to work, and I'm successful upto the part where you pick the language, and click continue, it complains about it not being able to be installed :'(

Upon lots of reading, it's supposedly something about a PlatformSupport.plist (which amusingly I cannot find). I've asked about on the forum, and hope at some point to contribute to a thread on getting our board OSX10.7 successful <3

I haven't tried to get installation of Lion to work.  However, I did get Lion to run starting from the image of a Lion disk copied from an iMac.  I used Netkas's PCEFI boot at  http://netkas.org/?p=712.  Lion did work from time to time, but most of the time I got the double kernel panic.  Just today I saw this post: http://www.insanelym...p...t&p=1674711  I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but that version of boot is supposed to solve the kernel panic problem, and I think it might also let you use Extensions.mkext.

[lovetoby]

Hi has anybody tried to patch dsdt for the new ga-x58a-ud3r rev 2.0 bios FG1??

Since 10.6.7 ive got problems with usb not booting correctly, so the keyboard is not recognized or something like that(only if i boot with -v -f)
Sometimes  osx is loaded but i cannot do anything, i see the network monitor is working but the screen is kind of greyed out and i cannot interact with the ui

I think there might be some problems with the dsdt (im still on fe)
or with the usb3.0 driver?

greetings... maybe i will make a dsdt file but im currently running out of time...
so looking forward to someone spending time on the new bios and a new package of drivers

[dougaa]

lovetoby, on May 31 2011, 03:37 AM, said:

Hi has anybody tried to patch dsdt for the new ga-x58a-ud3r rev 2.0 bios FG1??

Since 10.6.7 ive got problems with usb not booting correctly, so the keyboard is not recognized or something like that(only if i boot with -v -f)
Sometimes  osx is loaded but i cannot do anything, i see the network monitor is working but the screen is kind of greyed out and i cannot interact with the ui

I think there might be some problems with the dsdt (im still on fe)
or with the usb3.0 driver?

greetings... maybe i will make a dsdt file but im currently running out of time...
so looking forward to someone spending time on the new bios and a new package of drivers

Hi.  FG1 is a beta BIOS, not a final release.  Since it's beta, I wouldn't recommend using it unless the BIOS claims to fix a specific problem you're having.  It takes some effort to update the DSDT for a new BIOS, so I don't want to do that for FG1, but I do plan on doing that when the FG final version is available. A while ago I posted a DSDT for BIOS FF, which seems best to me to use until FG is no longer beta.

[maleorderbride]

10.6.8 Installed without incident, other than the AppleHDA.kext re-install that happens every single update.  No problems at all.

I was using my files of course.