celticpride34 Posted March 3, 2006 Share Posted March 3, 2006 What up all, so ive been trying to install osx natively on my alienware's internal hdd for like 2 weeks now all without succes. Ive got it on my external usb sata drive, and it works ok, but i need it on my internal, so it doesnt loose certain settings when the drive spins down/off. Currently i have a seagate ST910082 100Gig ata drive internally, that I cant get osx to recognize (and yes ive used diskpart to create a mac partition, and even wiped my xp parition off, so there was absolutely nothing on it, all without luck). My lappy has a clevo d900t mobo with a Intel 82801FB/FBM SMBus Controller & promise 378 winxp sata controller (i dont really know what sata controllers are the ones that would interact with osx, so im including all that are on my pc). So after burning like 6 different osx install disks with different patches and different versions, and realizing that none of them recognize my internal seagate ata, ive decided it would be much more feasable to just buy a new hard drive as my system supports another one. So does anyone know of a laptop ata drive that is compatiable with osx(it still needs to be an ata(ide) drive because i cant run one sata and one ata, they both apperently need to be the same)? Itd be way easier to spend another $150 or so, and in essence have a mac, than try any longer messing with kexts and install discs and patches, ect ect (im sure most of you who cant get your internal ata/sata drives to be recognized know what im talking about). Does this seem like it will work, or is it useless because in the end my sata/ata controller (i think the intel 82801) isnt compatiable with osx (although on wiki the promise 378 is...?)? Please guys, any help/input would be appreciated, thanks-- Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10807-bestcompatiable-laptop-ata-hardrives-to-install-on/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
unstatusthequo Posted June 5, 2006 Share Posted June 5, 2006 I have the same problem trying to install on a Hypersonic Aviator EX7... just won't do it. It's basically the same computer with a different manufacturer... my bet is that it's the clevo mobo... at first I thought it might be the promise, but yeah, promise is mainstream and the wiki is probably not wrong... I'm at a loss for how to get it running, and I would doubt another hard drive would actually work. Anyone have any suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10807-bestcompatiable-laptop-ata-hardrives-to-install-on/#findComment-124996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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