Ok basically when I run the Myz 10.4.4/5 install DVD when I get to the volume selection screen I get nothing. I go on disc utility and all it lists is my main hard drive (windows) and my DVD drive. I have a SATA drive installed in a 5 1/2 inch drive caddy. The BIOS says the SATA drive is third IDE master (I think). What could be causing this?
Also, I have got it installed in vmware and I installed to the hard drive as a physical drive. If I boot that drive natively I get a message saying "still waiting for root device" but it does boot fine within Vmware.

Hope someone can help me out with this one.

Did u use disk utility to format it HFS, because thats the only way the install will see it?

Hi there...

I had a similar problem with the MYZ iso I downloaded. Not sure if your having the same issue but here's the solution I found.

On a certain torent site, I found the following patches that fixed a few issues (SATA support among them):

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Sorry I screwed up the permissions on the first ppf , Apply this ppf to fix sata support not working after reboot

To make it clear the steps are

1) original iso http://XXXXXXXXXXXX.org/details.php?id=3451287 md5 d0bcd93dd9b40b072dc4cc4c6111d0b0

2) Apply the first ppf http://XXXXXXXXXXXX.org/details.php?id=3457929, the md5 will become 66d15b0542eea2f8a047823e85265ab5

3) Apply this ppf the md5 will become 11406d017ce3d9d802d5feba0f240408

Get those 2 patches -- apply them to your MYZ iso using the included software -- reburn your image and your off and running. Reinstalled on my system (2 SATA drives) and it'S working fine.
Good luck.

Thanks, am downloading the patches now, shall post back with results.
And to zfire: disk utility doesn't see my hard drive so that isn't possible.

Ok I fixed it. If you have this problem just install under VMWare then edit the AppleVIAATA.kext in the IOATAFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins folder. I had to add my device ID and it worked fine. There is a tutorial in the wiki about making nforce stuff worked, I picked from bits of that and it worked ok.