I edited the AppleAHCIPort.kext to get my Sata ports recognized correctly in System profiler:



It is available below, don't forget to repair your permissions.

Thanks and good work!
Now, how about plain ICH 9?

If you give me your device id I can edit the kext for you. Vendor id should be 8086 (Intel). If you boot your computer with the HDD's disconnected it should hopefully stick at the screen with all hardware recognized by the bios. Look for mass storage controller.

aqua-mac - I did a similar thing but didn't update the strings. ie. I just added my dev id to the ICH8M entry in the info.plist. Am I right in thinking that this won't actually make any difference to the performance of the machine? ie. it's still going to use the same driver?

One thing I have that is weird is that I have 2 WD SATA II drives, one 250 and one 500. The 500 has NCQ on but the 250 doesn't. I have the 250 split 4 ways with XP on a partition. Is that a reason why?

Matt

Hi, aqua-mac. My MB is Gigabyte P35-DS3P with ICH9R chip.

Just want to confirm that kext should work on my MB, shouldn't it?

I didn't install any Kext, but my SATA still work well as pic shown.

So I think I better not to try this at moment.

Any way, you are great. I have read your post about the 512 Geforce 7900 flash rom.

Thank you very much.

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Bluejacky,

I think it should work for you, the worst that can happen is there will be no change. However you must be happy to repair permissions correctly.

GingerPrince,

Yes if your AHCI is already working, eg picked up by the generic driver there will be little performance difference. You may be right about the XP partitions.

I don't mean to be rude then but why do it? Is it not better to just wait for the real ICH9 support? I mean, it will be coming I would have thought?

Also, I noticed that your HD doesn't support NCQ. And that pioneer model is an IDE drive. PATA/SATA converters on both?

ICH9 support is already included otherwise your drives would not be working. So there is already Real support. However it is anyones guess if Apple will use exactly the same device id as the the one on your motherboard. However they use a generic device id which is why your system is working. All I have done is get OSX to specifically see your chip. The command NCQ must be down to the drive, as if I clone to a raptor and boot from that it indicates Yes to NCQ.

Yes that Pioneer model had a Sata/IDE adapter on it. However that was borrowed from another system and this one now has a native Sata drive onboard.

No. The reason it works is because it will work with ICH8 and ICH9 is backwardly compatible. If any new features have been introduced in ICH9 (and they have) then they won't be used because the driver is in compatibility mode.

NCQ - Native Command Queuing is one of the reasons SATA drives are quick. It basically lets the drive decide what order to retrieve data. So yes, it is drive specific but both my drives should have it (and do in XP) but for some reason OS X is not recognizing it on the 250 Gb drive.

Cool, I got my Asus P5K-Deluxe to work

thank you aqua-mac!

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there is some increase of performance with this drivers? or some new feature with this?

anyway, thanks a lot!, I'll prob it on p35-ds4

Aqua-mac

Thank you for your help. I'm waiting for my graphic card - X1950GT. After I get it, I will try this kext.

This mod doesn't give you any performance boost or anything like that, it's just a namechanger.
So instead of having AppleAHCI it can say ICH99, Pizza Hut or whatever you want

Anyway I've attatched a kext for ICH9 chipset that reports as "ICH9 AHCI".

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jeje, ok thanks!

Hi guys

I got a GA P35-DS3 with Jas 10.4.8 + jas 10.4.9 update + koolkal 10.4.10 update with 8.10.3 kernel. IntelE6750. 2 Gb DDR2 800, Captiva Geforce 7300GT, Belkin Wireless PCI Working.

In System profiler I can only see two of the 4 Orange ports! They should work correctly, because when I connect some device it's seen in BIOS.
So I can only see 4 ports, the 2 purple ones, and 2 orange ones. Recognized as GenericAHCI (I'll try the kext posted in the upper replies).

Can anyone help me?

PS.:my IDE port works, I installed XXX_OSX86_10.4.10 on a 40Gb ATA Disk, I got a SATA Pioneer DVD-RW

for nonAHCI bioses try my patch from this thread post #23

Sorry, but it was an answer to my question? I found the post you were talking about but it seems it's a guide for Leopard.

???????

I've ried the ChaOSX86 too, but still 2 ports from the orange controller.

Can Anyone help me please?

I've read these info from he boot screen:

Mass storage Cntrlr:
BUS 0
DEV 31
FUN 2
VENDOR 8086
DEVICE 2923
SVID 1458
SSID B005
CLASS 0106

no with ICH9 SATA kekt you can set only SATA 0,1,2 and 3, but if you connect sata 4 the system stop on FireWare GUI problem...

Must i set to AHCI in bios?

I'm using Sata port 1 for Leopard.
Port 0 for Windows XP
Port 2 for Storage HDD.

Someone enlighten me please.

I'm running on Leopard with efi bootloader and all original kernel.
Haven't patch a single kexts yet.
Boot in without any problems

hey guys,
I currently have an MSI P6N-SLI with Nforce4 chipset and it's killin me in osx86. i just updated by bios and now i cant boot from my pata drives, it doesnt even post.... but sata drives it does boot. recently also i've been getting random freezes. i'll come back to my computer and my screen saver will be frozen, or i'll go to open safari and it will freeze. i'm not sure of the cause but i think it has something to do with the nforce chipset.

so i've been looking into another motherboard and saw alot of posts about the P35 chipset. I was wondering:
1 - if anyone is booting osx86 from a pata drive and what's the performance?
2 - how is the sata harddrive performance if i get a sata drive to install osx on.

P35 & P33 work really well as Hackintosh boards, I have used these Gigabyte boards:

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Mother...?ProductID=2637

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Mother...?ProductID=2534

u mean G33?
The DS4 model is also very nice.. wich chipset is actally newer? P35 or G33? I taught P35..

hello Aqua-Mac,
I have intel DG33FBC motherboard with G33 chipset and ICH9 controller , my problem is "still waiting for root device".(even with IDE)
how do i add my device id to installation dvd or already installed osx?

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance friends.

You need to install from a USB DVD drive, you will not manage from a sata drive depending on your DVD. If you email me, I could send you the prepatched kexts for your install that you already have. It will have to be later as I am going out now.

Hi aqua-man i have the same problem as openone, can you help me with the "still waiting for root device" ??

Thnkas

As I said above, to get installed, you will have to use a USB DVD drive. Then you will have to boot into Tiger on a real mac or a hackintosh and replace a few kexts. I take it you have not actually installed yet and you are getting "still waiting for root device" when you put in the DVD and not when you boot an installation. If you have the option in your bios you must set to AHCI, not raid if you are installing to Sata HDD's. If you can get as far as actually installing then I can put up the kexts you need for download to get your installation to boot. If you have access to an Intel mac, there is also a way to clone to a HDD and getting it to boot using PC EFI.

Thanks for helping!
i got intel mobo DG33TL i and already tried AHCI/IDE/RAID, non of this settings as succeed. on first sata port i got HD with vista and the sec port i have HD waiting to leo.
so let me understand i need to have DVD usb driver for install leo on my system ??
is the away to add AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext(FIX) to the leo 9a581* .iso image ?

Aqua-mac I have just installed the retail DVD using mod 132 bootloader on a P35 DS3L and I am getting an 'still waiting for root device' when booting without the CD (from the HD - SATA). I'm sure you are familiar with this issue. I notice that you posted some kexts to use. I'm a bit of a noob and I'm not sure what to do. In bios I don't have any options for SATA to be changed.