Sorry this post is completely vague and poorly written, but I have to wake up early for class.


I attached working kexts for sata and fast pata support on sb700 based chipsets.
I've only tested these on one system.
Use at your own risk.


I used a method by dcat for the sb600. where he edited source for AppleOnboardPCATA.kext and compiled it with sb600 support. It seemed to also work for the sb700. Then I also added the the sb700 sata devid to IOATAFamily.kext. This was also a method dcat did for the sb600



A quick note on sb700 sata:

the sb700 has 4 devids for sata. I only added the first code, which is sata in ide mode, to IOATAFamily.kext. You're more then welcome to add the others, but i don't know if they'll work.

0x43901002, SATA in IDE mode - I added this code
0x43911002, SATA in AHCI mode
0x43921002, SATA in RAID mode with Promise non-Raid5 driver
0x43931002, SATA in RAID mode with Promise Raid5 driver



I'd like to thank dcat. without his findings on the sb600 south bridge none of this would have been possible.

how can i add it on a mac dvd?

it works with normal ide HD?

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=67713
You can try that guide. I'm not 100% sure if it'll work i didn't read it.

Yeah, with out these kexts your ide drive will read and write at 1.5 megs a second. which makes osx pretty useless. these kexts also give you sata support if your sata is in ide mode.

anyone have any luck with this? ive been trying to get my 780g chipset to to work forever now i can install but it takes like 8 hours and at the end i get com.apple.boot.plist not found im going nuts ive tried every possible way of installing ahci,usb hdd,usb cd-rom and same thing tried kalyway,leo4all (still waiting for rooot),zephyroth (10.5.1 - 10.5.2) and also jas 10.4.8 any ideas anyone?

are you installing onto sata? or pata? if you're installing to sata you need to add the kexts to a dvd first.

Uhh i used zephs 10.5.1 to install onto pata after disabling sata all together have you tried disable sata from bios?

i've also installed the 10.5.4 phenom release after adding the the kexts i uploaded. before adding the kexts i'd get still waiting for root after it booted up normally. maybe you can give that a shot.

ive tried sata pata usb you ame it ive turned off ahci and tried native ide all end up with com.apple.boot.plist problem i just got a vmware image to put your kext on an install dvd ill try that and we'll see how that goes ill keep ya posted
thanx

hey what kexts do i use the ones in _MACOSX folder or the 2 out of the folder

out of the folder.

k so i tried that with the kexts i injected with the method you left the link to i put the cd in to start the install and i get the sam multimedia error but it still lets me try the install it still took a long time and in the end i didnt get th com.apple.boot.plist error anymore but when it restarts theres nothing so i thought maybe the partition wasnt active i used acronis and it couldnt see the partition but maybe its cause it dont recognise it i dont know so ill try a few other things how did u get your kexts installed on the cd or what did u do? thanks for all your help so far

OK! I'm so happy i got it to work so far all works great i cant thank you enough for the kexts!!!! thank you i'm gonna write a guide on how i got it to work tomorrow when i get some timetheres still a few things i need to work but nothing big i used kalyways 10.5.2 thanx again

Yay...all my sata's now work in native sata mode:) But so far it doesn't work for IDE drives yet... Any ideas for me as to how I can get my IDE drives to work?

Thanks!

Thanks!

I successfully inserted the kexts into the Kalyway 10.5.2 DVD using Transmac. I'm now running Mac OS x86 on my PC, everything is working perfect (except my onboard graphics card: HD3200).

After I installed OS X on my sata drive (I used SB700 kext on install DVD), I connected one IDE and one external eSATA drive but they are not recognized.
The sata drive is set to AHCI mode and 4/5 ports are set to As SATA Type.

What kext do I have install to get fully working eSata and IDE drives?

what about SB750 ?
i have a MB : MSI DKA790GX - AMD 790GX , SB750
do u have kext for this ?