tomtefar Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Pemberton: Haven't fixed the -50 error. What you quoted me writing regarded loading an other SATA driver in parallel to the nForce driver. ooZberg: Will try this and see if I can verify this on my comp also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtefar Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Ok, tested it, mine does neither read nor write correctly ooZberg: Did you use a SATA1 or SATA2 compatible harddrive??? Mine is SATA2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooZberg Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 SATA1 disk, I also got a SATA2 disk, but not with any free space for HFS+ partitions. It is to bad it didn't work, because it is very disturbing to just be able to use 250GB of 980Gb When i run a sfv file (file with crc check sums) with MacSfv, it looks like this And the weird thing is that it is different files that semas to be corrupted every time. This program starts from the top in the list and with constant speed checks all the files, and the result is "Good". Except for sometimes when the program suddenly freezes/stops for a moment, and on this very file it stops the result is always "Bad". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtefar Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 I will try using MacSfv instead of the program I used (frontend for OpenSSL) and redo the tests. I used a 2Gb file all the time. Maybe if I use smaller files like you did I will get the same kind of result. Also I noticed that there (still??) was the message about "ATA ... blocking bus-something" that you can read about all over the forum. Maybe this blocking occurs infrequent and thats when there is a time-out (your reported freeze) and the datastream gets corrupted somehow due to some reset of the bus or something... well I guess you know what I mean? Maybe its time to have a look at the code. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooZberg Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Yes, I was also thinking something like that. Whith the first modded AppleVIAATA.kext my system always froze randomly, but I guss now these freezes is replaced with corrupted data insted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamlo Posted October 26, 2006 Author Share Posted October 26, 2006 I have found small incompatibility of some revisions of chipsets. I completely rewrite the driver i'll try to fix that bug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 i've booted my system!!! testing right now. mobo specs in my sign Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pemberton Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Pemberton: Haven't fixed the -50 error. What do you think the error is coming from? I know that it has to be something to do with SATA - whether it is the controller, drive, ect. It can't be a problem with the install image used because I used the same DVD to install OSX 10.4.6 on my IDE, without the -50 error, that I did with my SATA drive. At this point, this error is pretty well making my OSX setup unusable because I can boot into the system but I cannot change or create new files. Any help with this would be amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subramanyam Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Any body else got it goin perfectly ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 my system crashes randomly(locks up..no messages), but the mouse keeps moving. when it doesn't crash..."seems" it works great but i haven't tested it extensively i admit i dunno if the issue is due SATA... since i haven't installed macOS natively for a long time(my ide hdd fried sometime ago) i have a goatsecs 10.4.5 any help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 ok.. sata is still unusable. sometimes boots sometime doesn't sometimes i get the -50 error and the filesystem is not writable anyway thx for your affort! i'm lookin forward to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtefar Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Yeah, I second that. We'll just have to wait for Hamlo's rewritten driver then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROFISH Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 I too wait eagerly for hamlo's driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtefar Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 By the way, this driver is both for the SATA and PATA ports of the chipset (or am I wrong?) I have tested it with SATA drives only, anyone tried it with a PATA drive? Results? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jape Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 By the way, this driver is both for the SATA and PATA ports of the chipset (or am I wrong?) I have tested it with SATA drives only, anyone tried it with a PATA drive? Results? Yes it is, but it seems unchanged from the original Apple one (as far as isSATA is false ). Except it has the nForce 4 PATA device id coded in so it'll boot nForce 4 PATA, better perfomance than with standard AppleGenericPCATA on nForce 4. So what did you change, hamlo? I've diffed AppleNVIDIAnForceATA and it seems you did exactly what I did... namely adding SATA device id, disabling 80-conductor cable check for SATA and disabling timings for SATA. You also tell the system the connection type key is SATA but I think this is for System Info and nothing more. I'm at work right now, I'll diff it more carefully at home, and I'll also diff the changes you made to AppleOnBoardPCATA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 you say there's even pata code inside..could it be that it leads to conflicts? what if you delete those pata parts? i dont have got xcode now so i can't check Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jape Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 you say there's even pata code inside..could it be that it leads to conflicts? what if you delete those pata parts? i dont have got xcode now so i can't check No conflicts, that kext IS the original (Apple provided) nForce PATA driver but it has SATA addons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROFISH Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Nope, I get the random OS crashes as well. Looking forward to the next version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtefar Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Anyone heard from Hamlo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subramanyam Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 He seems to be missing....Last online 3 days back....hopefully he's still workin on his driver... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jape Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 I don't know what he's going to do. He's currently exactly where I am -- and, as I said, I'm lost. Hope he has better ideas. He said something about rewriting the driver... but still don't know the differences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spbcat Posted November 2, 2006 Share Posted November 2, 2006 Yes, hamlo is missing... On russian forum applelife there are no news and reports from him. And his last post on applelife was about rewriting the driver too. But I think he is working hard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamlo Posted November 3, 2006 Author Share Posted November 3, 2006 Hi I'm working... New driver fully rewriten. In result i make new standalone module. I testing this module on my computer. Please wait. The new version nearly... Simply i have many other work. Sorry for long time waiting reply from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmyj Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 great stuff mate, that's fair enough, release it when its ready then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jape Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Did you finally found a difference between [AppleVIAATA | ApplenForceATA] and a working driver then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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