I have an EliteGroup K8M890M-M motherboard with a VIA K8M890 Northbridge Chipset and a VIA VT8237R Plus/VT8237A Southbridge Chipset. The southbridge is what controls my SATA, USB and EIDE. Both USB and EIDE work from this chipset natively, but SATA does not. I have looked for a compatible driver by searching these forums, but have had no luck. Does anyone know of a supported SATA driver for my southbridge chipset? Thanks much in advance.

I am currently running Zephiroth's AMD Leopard 10.5.1 from my 200GB IDE Seagate Barricuda.

Ok, I have figured out how to get SATA with my south bridge chipset. It works flawlessly. I also installed NTFS-3G with MacFuse to access my NTFS partitions.

I've got the same southbridge chipset on a P4VBM 800 and sound, and usb don't work, how did you work it out in the end?

It works well. I am able to use SATA seamlessly in Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.1. I've attached the driver that I have used for SATA. Simply put the driver in your /System/Library/Extensions directory and set the correct permissions on the driver so it can load on startup. If you have any questions on installation, let me know.

Wow, this gave me sata instantly on my ECS PT890T which also uses the vt8237a controller. Thanks!

Can you discribe how you installed it io have mabee the same problem.

I have the VT8237 Chipset so i think i should work for me.

Thanks Julian

Check out the second post here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...ded&start=#

If you can believe it, I managed to install OSX.4.8 I believe it was on a Biostar P4M900 MB.

The two chips in this heap are the Via P4M900 and the Via VT8237A- Last night I found an AppleViaATA.kext that was supposed to add VT8237A support- But my SATA drive still did not detect- The verbal interface said AppleViaATA returned "unknown device" or some similar message.

I took my hard drive and stuck it into an External SATA case... and this morning when I got up, I had a working OSX 10.4 on my Pentium 4.

Now that I see the scope of building Macs into PCS, If I can get a stable platform, I'll build THESE rather than Vista-PooP- IF I can get this dependable.

I am on my 3rd re-install... I switched to a MAC Keyboard, and it fouled up some drivers, so yet another fresh install, if I can.

Anyways: You guys, ECS boards are 50-50 boards: 50% of them work and the other 50% are dogs.

Biostar are almost the same... but they are 70-30 boards... 70% of them are good while 30% have little flaws. This one as a matter of fact, has a problem when you stress the CPU cache (Prescott P-4 with 1 MB Cache)- It causes the system to Blue Screen under XP/Vistpoop at least once a day.

I figured I would build my first hackintosh into this... I have a Pentium D system coming by the end of the week.

Thanx for the links and I'll download all of them if I can.

Man... What a *&*^.

I had installed 10.4.6, that was the OSx86 that I actually got to boot. The hard drive is still running on the USB bus.

I tried installing uphuck 10.4.9 into my AM2 on Biostar NF61S Micro- And THAT has those Nvidia chipset drivers.

The install detected them, but the system will NOT boot: It is uphuck 10.4.9 version 1.3- And it SUCKS! The same thing happened when I tried to install to the P-IV, the boot screen of deth: meaning as far as I could get was a prompt that said BOOT: and it would go no further from that point.

I tried using XxX's 10.4.11 rev 2, and that would not even go IN, it got to a certain spot in the boot, it did not even get to the BLUE screen with the spinning circle.

Anyway, is there a driver for that Via chipset? Never mind, I see it there in that link.

Uh.. now HOW do I get it installed? I copied it into the extensions folder, but nothing happened.

I read some terminal command for doing it... What is the syntax, and/or the actual command line (Just so I can see how it works)?

I've been working on a Hackintosh with the same mobo that you have - he Biostar P4M900-M4. So far, Leo4Allv3 seems to be the most compatible installation. Using the ViaRhine kext for networking support (works good). I have ordered a Creative soundcard that is said to be 100% compatible since the on-board audio is useless under OSX. I am looking for kexts that woudl make SATA work or at least improve IDE performance on this mobo.

I bought another Biostar motherboard a little while back new off of eBay: it would not post or do anything when installed. Seller said "tough luck". I have heard from others that Biostar board are a bit of a crap shoot as far as being DOA or working.

Cheers!

Hi Julian,
A few posts above, a link is provided where you can download the compressed file.

1. Go ahead and Download it. Unzip it. This will produce the needed kext file.
2. Copy this kext file to /System/Library/Extensions/
3. Repair permissions
4. Reboot

Thanks for that driver, Kalyway 10.5.2 now see my SATA drive on my Asrock 4CoreDual-VSTA board. 

Thanks a lot man, works on my asus P5V-VM ULTRA, sata or raid both , but better on raid mode...thanks!!!

HI
did you get the usb working on your board i've got the same one from biostar on an ideq 210m zero luck with usb
its holding me back to no end