drone4zone Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 seems i have got close but not yet working Marvell onboard sata 4 ports. Shows up 5 sata marvell in SYS PrOfiler and when I plug in HD,but get I/O error failed when I try to Initialize disk -= my build Bad Axe x2 Gskill 4 gig ram,maxtor Drives 250 gigs (3) radeon 2600xt video,running newest bios,with pure Vanilla,10.5.3 kalyway install,i mixed my kexts to get all working except Marvell ports using Tiger IONetworking Family(to get green icon in system pref networking ;removed AppleVIAATAkext, did orange icon fix in term as follows mv /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns.back cp /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/Internal.icns /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext reboot swapped APPLEAHCIPORT.kext to 10.5.2 used "usb fix 1.3" to convert kernels and system kext to match and fix usb mounting flash drives...some- how somewhere - something may have conflicts with Marvell controller,whichs works fine in vista ,but I'd rather use Leopard Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/113810-bad-axe-help-marvell-chip-4-sata/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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