jape Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 Wait, how far can you people go with the installation with nForce 4 SATA? I installed it so far, but I'm getting an IOATA Controller device blocking bus error, and I'm trying to figure that out I got up to the point were no IOATAController blocking bus error was showing up at all (due to greater timeout). Corruption and freezes were still there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gixxer_drew Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 Thats how far I got as well, I hope this thread doesnt die Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jape Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 The thread is already dead, there does not seem to be research at all from anyone... I don't know what to do. I just hope a hero shows up... I will be attending a IDE basics lecture late this year, I hope it'll allow me to learn the basics to try to understand and fix this. (although I believe a Mac OS X Kernel Debugging course would be more useful ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtefar Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 AMDZen (and others): Go get a Sil 3132, there is a unibin dirver for those cards (Sil3124 also has unibin drivers, I have however not used these cards so I don't know if they actually work). It is possible to boot from it, works real nice in my nf4ultra mobo. Gives me the following xbench from a samsung sp2504c sata2: Disk Test 45.06 Sequential 93.95 Uncached Write 114.87 70.53 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 125.47 70.99 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 54.35 15.91 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 133.27 66.98 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 29.63 Uncached Write 9.40 0.99 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 110.26 35.30 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 84.29 0.60 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 131.44 24.39 MB/sec [256K blocks] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gixxer_drew Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 Not sure I understand, becasue your post says your using it but that you havent tried it at the same time? Can you explain more? if there is any card that works I will buy it right away! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jester1o1 Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 he says he is using a 3132 but hasn't tried a 3124 and both have drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtefar Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 gixxer_drew: See my post on using cards based on Sil3132. You will find links to (a) card (and probably others) that work there. As jester1o1 says, I DO have a 3132 card that does work, I do however NOT have a 3124 card so I can't promise that those drivers do work. Regarding 3124: I had a look at the drivers yesterday (see below) and it seems that it is not possible to edit the Info.plist for the 3124 driver the same way as I did for the 3132 driver in the above mentioned thread. As a sidenote: I have tried loading the Sil3132 / sil3124 drivers for my 3114, just editing the Info.plist did not work. Further looking at the binary files it seems that hexediting the drivers to work with 3114/3112 will probably be hard (almost all functions have 3132 or 3124 in their names so I'm guessing it is chipset specific). However when I looked at the code I also found that the 3132/3124 driver(s) might work with Sil3531-based cards since these are mentioned in the code. I do NOT have a 3135 card so I can NOT promise this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jape Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 Please keep this thread for nForce 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Lin Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 I found nforce 1/2/3 ATA Driver in http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsour...VIDIAnForceATA/ maybe it will be useful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jape Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 There went another dupe, so I am going to sum up all what I already tested: Remounted the SATA disk partition's when they crash --> more crashes Added the nForce SATA device id's to AppleOnBoardPCATA and mounted SATA with the nForce plugin --> same behaviour than with AppleVIAATA Tried AppleGenericPCATA --> doesn't work as it does not support native mode (Still don't know WHY it does not work, but forcing AppleVIAATA into legacy mode makes the whole thing miss the device id) Incremented the IOATAController->selectDevice() timeout --> total number of "IOATAController blocking bus"=0, but it still hangs. I debug by overloading functions on my special driver while defining DEBUG constants to true, cause I don't really know XCode and I can't build IOATAFamily (needs hackintosh patched binary, I think). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thico Alves Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 we have a lot of information on this post, incluiding sources to see the diference between nForce3 (or VIA - supported) and nForce4 chipsets.... Why we can't develop a driver for that? They guys up here said that they can't find the difference of the VIA and nForce4 drivers...could be a kext conflict that can cause all this problem to SATA drives with nForce4 ?!?.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted December 16, 2006 Share Posted December 16, 2006 Development on an nForce2/3/4 driver that should (in theory) take advantage of ATA/SATA fully. Details here; http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=35985 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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