sam_in_chicago Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 I've built a Hackintosh based on the GA-EP45-UD3P and the Q6600. It has been running stable at 3.2GHz for about a week now and seems to be a solid machine. I'm a bit confused about how to configure my optical and hard drives, though. How should I use the the GSATA2 (purple) and SATA2 (yellow) connections? I have two of the yellow going to the eSATA connector. I have my optical and one of my hard drives connected to the GSATA2 and a second hard drive on one of the yellows. I'm not particularly interested in a RAID setup. I have Mac OS X on one drive and Windows XP on another, and I'd like to install two more hard drives for storage and backup. When I have ACPI turned on (which I need for Mac OS X), Windows XP cannot see the optical, for some reason, so I end up having to switch this back and forth depending on how I boot up. To summarize: Board has 8 SATA connectors (2 purple = GSATA, 6 yellow = SATA). I want to connect 2 boot hard drives (one for OS X, one for WinXP), one optical drive and 2-3 other hard drives for backup/storage. Thanks for your help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141501-how-to-arrange-drives-on-a-ga-ep45-ud3p/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser2525 Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 Hook a floppy drive up to the machine then make the disk with the AHCI controller mode files on it to reinstall windows using the F6 to load third party drivers so it will be installed allowing you to run XP with the drives in AHCI mode this will solve the problem, you can also Google on installing the driver in an existing install I have seen posts on people doing it that way. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141501-how-to-arrange-drives-on-a-ga-ep45-ud3p/#findComment-1003049 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam_in_chicago Posted December 17, 2008 Author Share Posted December 17, 2008 Hook a floppy drive up to the machine then make the disk with the AHCI controller mode files on it to reinstall windows using the F6 to load third party drivers so it will be installed allowing you to run XP with the drives in AHCI mode this will solve the problem, you can also Google on installing the driver in an existing install I have seen posts on people doing it that way. As far as hooking up the drives - the physical layout - does it matter? Which drives go to GSATA (purple) vs. SATA (yellow)? The optical vs. the boot drives, vs. the extra hard drives? Thanks for the advice. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141501-how-to-arrange-drives-on-a-ga-ep45-ud3p/#findComment-1003086 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacUser2525 Posted December 17, 2008 Share Posted December 17, 2008 As far as hooking up the drives - the physical layout - does it matter? Which drives go to GSATA (purple) vs. SATA (yellow)? The optical vs. the boot drives, vs. the extra hard drives? Thanks for the advice. Does not really matter for OS X windows not sure, the purple (Jmicron controller) drives work fine on OS X in AHCI mode if set to IDE with greater than ~3.5gb of ram they will cause kernel panics the yellow (Intel ICH10) don't have a problem set to IDE but you want them AHCI for OS X. In short you want the drives all set to AHCI unless you want to have two different BIOSs saved that you load one IDE for windows the other AHCI for OS X. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141501-how-to-arrange-drives-on-a-ga-ep45-ud3p/#findComment-1003113 Share on other sites More sharing options...
victorz Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 hi sam i have a question about the board your using does the audio fully work, mic/all the ports? and does sleep shutdown and restart work? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141501-how-to-arrange-drives-on-a-ga-ep45-ud3p/#findComment-1021474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpyBoyCH Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 Check this out. Its another topic on the same MB and people have got it running (without yellow/orange drive icons). http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=131791 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141501-how-to-arrange-drives-on-a-ga-ep45-ud3p/#findComment-1031522 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpyBoyCH Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 Hey folks, So my rig is running at as close to real mac capacity as possible. And thanks to our fellow hackintosher Buildsmart I have a wifi card that is fully recognized as an Airport wireless running at 300mbps. Buildsmart informed me that he will be ordering another shipment of cards, but he could use some pre-orders to help defray some of the overhead. I'll be taking one more myself, but give him the heads-up if you are interested. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141501-how-to-arrange-drives-on-a-ga-ep45-ud3p/#findComment-1067811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macdaddie0 Posted February 11, 2009 Share Posted February 11, 2009 hi sam i have a question about the board your using does the audio fully work, mic/all the ports? and does sleep shutdown and restart work? I have the same board. All sound, restart, shutdown work. You will need to apply some patches, however. http://store.psystar.com/opensource/openhaltrestart << this should take care of shutdown/restart issues. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/141501-how-to-arrange-drives-on-a-ga-ep45-ud3p/#findComment-1077754 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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