Hiya fellas...

Is there an hope to have a driver for SATA controller for the chipset nforce5?
I've tried all the beta loaded into internet with no good results...

Waiting for answers,
Alby

I, too, would LOVE to see even experimental drivers for nForce5 SATA chipsets. I've tried forcing the AppleNForce.kext to read my device and I was able to get it to read it, but it didn't last and it eventually locked up the installer. I also tried using the IOATAFamily.kext plugin, AppleVIAATA.kext, but it too, was only able to read the drives. This is better than nothing, though, and if there is anybody working on drivers for this chipset those might be a good place to start from =) Had I more knowledge and a way to easily test work, I would definitely try developing the driver myself, but alas, I've never owned a mac and I've never ran OSX86 on a machine of my own as this laptop is the first SSE2/3 machine I've ever had =)

My specs:

HP Pavilion dv6000us (BIOS says 6500, bought it under the number 6605, so I really dunno )
Proc: AMD Turion X2 1.8GHz
Mem: 1GB
HDD: Western Digital 160GB SATA
Mobo (CPU-Z says): nForce 560

HDD on device: 10de:0550 which is apparently the nVidia MCP67 AHCI controller
DVD on device: 10de:0560

If any other info is needed to test or if I can be of any help testing drivers or whatnot I'd be more than happy to =)

Hope to get OSX on this thing eventually!

Don't expect it to work anytime soon.

I'd give an ETA of about 2 years before anything working is done.

Why the long delay? Especially if there's some partially working drivers already?

the nforce5 has the same problems as the nforcee 430/410.
there's only one person who seems to have any knowledge of whats wrong, and he is busy with real life and can't work on this for now.
I just really doubt we're gonna see support any time soon.

Heh, should we call out his name and hope he hears? Maybe at least enlighten us on the problem so we can attempt to fix it? eh? eh?

I landed in search on this one,

Hp Pavilion DV6500

Can OS-X be installed on above? I was able to install on my PC.

I know this is for many people kind of obvious,
but i just used an external IDE USB Drive to install Mac OSX on.
I have a Gigabyte M56S S3 Board which has Nforce 560 and an AMD 64 x2 4400+ at 2,8 Ghz and a x1950xt 512 MB. I used uphuck 1.4 and now my system works like a charm. The only thing is that the disk speed in XBench performs poorly... any help on this?

cheers,
chris