DOES LEOPARD NEED SATA? IDE doesnt work here.

[Rockviech]

Hey guys, im trying now for a couple of days getting my toshiba sat a210 notebook working.

 

it has ati sb600 south and rs690C northbridge

the problem now is, i dont even get to the blue installation screen. i only got there once via vmware, but then only background with beach ball endlessly spinning.

 

always some APIC_SMC_PlatformPlugin and IOAPIC stucks

 

my dvd is connected via atapi and my harddrive via SCSI.

 

are there any solutions now? ive searched the forum like hell but never found a working solution.

i found once some kext, but they are for post installation, i dont even come that far.

 

hope there is a solution soon.

[Rockviech]

noone, i found out now that i have a scsi dvd drive and ide harddisk. can this be the problem?

[Apache Thunder]

You have a SCSI drive? Hmm... The only SCSI specification I was ever familiar with was the old 50 pin SCSI used in old Macintosh's.

 

However I can tell you that it should work on a IDE drive. I was able to install mine on it (despite having problems getting it to boot without the DVD, but in the end I eventually got it to work)

 

 

I would recommend you do get a SATA drive (or a converter to convert your drive to SATA, though I don't know if any exist for a SCSI drive), since this is the most supported by the x86 installations. IDE drives will work, but I can almost guarantee that you will run into problems if you try.

 

EDIT: Oh so your DVD drive is a SCSI. I don't think the DVD drive should be a problem. If you can boot off it, then your fine.

 

IDE has problems with most x86 installers. Search ebay, there is plenty of cheap IDE to SATA converters to be had! This will almost certainly work IF the IDE drive is the root of the problem. However it it's something else causing your troubles then this might not help you. But still having a SATA drive is still an advantage.