Asus P5GD1-VM/L (Pundit-PE3) ICH6 SATA drive not recognized

[onixwj]

Update:

 

I never got this working. I tried installing with a parallel ATA drive. The installation went fine, but when I rebooted, the thing wouldn't boot. I tried several combinations of BIOS configuration of the disk controllers (have several options of SATA+PATA, etc.) but still no luck. It showed a message about boot-plist-somethingorother, but I don't remember exactly what it was.

 

I did notice some weirdness with partitioning. Instead of the regular partition table location, OS X on Intel uses one at the beginning of the disk and one at the end, leaving the regular partition table showing just one big partition. I forget the name of this; it's not specific to Apple.

 

If I find out any more, I'll definitely come back and post it here.

[onixwj]

Success with 10.4.6

 

I started over with the SATA drive using OS X 10.4.6 (MD5 sum of DVD image: bd341cbbbe3b63e31e6ab8399fcedaf1; purportedly created by "applying `JaS.INTEL.AMD.10.4.6.PPF.For.Myzar.10.4.5.iso' to the `myzar 10.4.5 install iso'"). The installation went smoothly and the system boots. Things seem a little sluggish compared to 10.3 on my Pismo (500MHz G3) but I suspect this may be due to the fact that I did not select the 10.4.6.GMA900.Support package for installation. I'll followup here when I have more information.

[onixwj]

Things seem a little sluggish compared to 10.3 on my Pismo (500MHz G3) but I suspect this may be due to the fact that I did not select the 10.4.6.GMA900.Support package for installation.

This seems to have been the case. After I re-installed with the GMA900 support package, more of the spiffy animated effects showed up (indicating, I suppose, that Quartz Extreme was working).

 

I still feel underwhelmed by the performance I experience when just poking around, browsing the Web, etc., but XBench benchmarks look good:

 

Results	45.13	
System Info		
	Xbench Version		1.2
	System Version		10.4.6 (8I1119)
	Physical RAM		1024 MB
	Model		ADP2,1
	Drive Type		ST3300831AS
CPU Test	61.09	
	GCD Loop	81.06	4.27 Mops/sec
	Floating Point Basic	72.92	1.73 Gflop/sec
	vecLib FFT	44.50	1.47 Gflop/sec
	Floating Point Library	58.99	10.27 Mops/sec
Thread Test	96.42	
	Computation	71.11	1.44 Mops/sec, 4 threads
	Lock Contention	149.68	6.44 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test	55.80	
	System	45.10	
		Allocate	48.88	179.52 Kalloc/sec
		Fill	41.14	2000.42 MB/sec
		Copy	45.96	949.19 MB/sec
	Stream	73.17	
		Copy	70.59	1458.05 MB/sec
		Scale	71.51	1477.37 MB/sec
		Add	75.97	1618.22 MB/sec
		Triad	74.91	1602.41 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test	38.96	
	Line	31.69	2.11 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
	Rectangle	30.47	9.10 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
	Circle	31.89	2.60 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
	Bezier	61.11	1.54 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
	Text	61.58	3.85 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test	164.82	
	Spinning Squares	164.82	209.08 frames/sec
User Interface Test	19.38	
	Elements	19.38	88.94 refresh/sec
Disk Test	36.87	
	Sequential	96.93	
		Uncached Write	106.46	65.37 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Write	102.04	57.73 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Uncached Read	74.96	21.94 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Read	114.50	57.55 MB/sec [256K blocks]
	Random	22.77	
		Uncached Write	7.02	0.74 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Write	66.36	21.24 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Uncached Read	92.89	0.66 MB/sec [4K blocks]
		Uncached Read	134.33	24.93 MB/sec [256K blocks]

 

 

Does anyone see anything unexpected in there?

[m4t7e0]

Hello, i have tried to install leopard xxx but doesn't work...

anyone can help me?

Celeron 2.6

1gb 400

80gb ide

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