jtle Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 My problem is kind of weird, the OS X and Darwin installers only see 120GB of my 200GB SATA drive. At first the installers could not see the drives at all until I changed a setting in my BIOS. In the BIOS there is a section called "Onboard PATA/SATA Config" and it was set to "Enhanced" so I changed it to "Combined Mode" and then my drive was seen. Here are my computer specs: Intel Pentium D @ 3.0Ghz i945P/G chipset ICH7 Southbridge 200GB Drive on an Intel 82801GB SATA Storage Controller - 27C0 This should be the pertinent information. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Jtle, Great info, thanks! Do you get onboard graphics (GMA 950) recognised? Useful info on the drives though, thanks. Most people can't get them to work on your board at all unless on a PATA connector, so not sure how I can help any. Maybe need to edit the plist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtle Posted August 30, 2005 Author Share Posted August 30, 2005 Nope, I think this is the board without the integrated graphics, namely the i945P. But I can change the resolution on my PCI-E Geforce 6600 by setting "Graphics Mode"="1280x1024x32". About my problem, I just checked out System Profiler on the install with the changes to my BIOS and it sees the drive as an ATA drive it does not appear under the SATA subsection that could be the reason why the drive's full capacity is not seen. Any more help is appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 The AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext only have til ICH6, maybe recompiling it with added pciIDs of ICH7 can recognize it, like I did with the nVidia kext forNforce 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtle Posted August 30, 2005 Author Share Posted August 30, 2005 Can you provide me with some tips and such to get started? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Search the forum for Nforce or harddisk speedup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtle Posted August 30, 2005 Author Share Posted August 30, 2005 I downloaded the source and looking through the AppleIntelPIIXATARoot.cpp, I noticed some interesting things, especally for combined/non-combined modes and such. I dont see any mention of PCIID's but rather Channel Modes instead. Here is the source: http://darwinsource.opendarwin.org/10.4/Ap...PIIXATARoot.cpp Combined mode does work for me as mentioned but the full capacity is not seen. Maybe If I add the channel from the combined mode section to the non-combined mode section my drive might work. I wonder if "Enhanced" in the BIOS means non-combined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 You can edit the Info.plist of the resulting build to add your DeviceIDs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 I think we can get ICH7 to work properly... http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-sin...pl?number=30795 This seems to imply just a bit of editing to some of the darwin files would get things going. If I can convince my fiance that I need a board soon maybe I can test. hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bender12 Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 The AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext only have til ICH6, maybe recompiling it with added pciIDs of ICH7 can recognize it, like I did with the nVidia kext forNforce 4. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Which Nforce 4 board do you have? Mine didn't work with the recompiled drivers. It deteted it, then hung... just as other people have seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bender12 Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 I think we can get ICH7 to work properly... http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-sin...pl?number=30795 This seems to imply just a bit of editing to some of the darwin files would get things going. If I can convince my fiance that I need a board soon maybe I can test. hehe <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This is what is being done with the nForce drivers.. and it seems to work for some, but not everyone. I had no luck with the nForce side with my nForce 4 board, but others have had success with the nForce 3. Perhaps this method may work with ICH7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-iT Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 I've Got an Asus p5LD2 mainboard with 945P chipset. When I added the device in the AppleIntelPIIXATA kext, I was able to see/mount my SATA drives in OSX. Also the transfer rates increased but not too much. (now getting 6MB/sec) What I did is added 0x27df8086 (Intel 945P PATA controller) to the ICH6 part in de Info.plist and added 0x27c08086 (Intel 945P SATA controller) to the SATA part. Pretty straight forward bot not the 20MB/sec transfer speeds that i achieved on a 915P chipset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 I ordered the MSI 945G Neo-F so I'll have similar issues. I have the Darwin 8.2 code for some of the ATA stuff (no explicit ICH7 tho), and I'm going to add the devices to that and compile that and see how things go. Won't be able to report back till late next week as I won't have the parts until 8 Sept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtle Posted September 4, 2005 Author Share Posted September 4, 2005 Thanks for the info guys and gals. X-iT, I'll have to try that soon. EDIT: X-iT, did you also manage to get the onboard Realtek High Definition Audio working? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-iT Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 Jtle: No haven't stared on that one yet. Only thing I did is getting the device ID. (For the realtek it's 0x088210ec) I also tried the harddisk speedup which includes the AppleIntelPIIATA.kext and IOATAFamily.kext. Still not getting better results (stuck at 6mb/sec) Jtle: wich code are you recomipling? and does it take a lot of altering? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-iT Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 Ok I think it's working for me now here the results: Results 33.54 System Info Xbench Version 1.2 System Version 10.4.1 (8B1025) Physical RAM 2048 MB Model ADP2,1 Drive Type Maxtor 53073H6 Disk Test 33.54 Sequential 55.90 Uncached Write 45.87 28.17 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 48.75 27.58 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 93.87 27.47 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 53.79 27.03 MB/sec [256K blocks] Random 23.96 Uncached Write 8.01 0.85 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Write 55.67 17.82 MB/sec [256K blocks] Uncached Read 78.75 0.56 MB/sec [4K blocks] Uncached Read 87.26 16.19 MB/sec [256K blocks] So what I did: 1st - I followed the harddisk speed up guide which can be found here: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...hard+disk+speed (I also deleted /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache and /System/Library/Extensions.mkext) 2nd - in /System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext/Contents/Info.plist i added my ATA id at the ICH6 ATA part (mine is 0x27df8086) 3rd - In the same file, in the SATA ICH6 part I added the ICH7 SATA id (0x27c08086) and it works! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 Great. So can you use SATA and PATA normally now in BIOS settings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtle Posted September 4, 2005 Author Share Posted September 4, 2005 I haven't compiled anything yet. I'll now try your way of adding the ID's (I think I have the same as you do). I have the same ID for the sound and I have tried to put it in several kexts but doesn't seem to work for me. Edit: Yep, adding those ID's works. I'll have to add that kext to the install DVD if I want to install to that drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 Thanks for the info. I think I'll edit the install DVD to have updated kexts and give it a go next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-iT Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 Cyrana: Yeah, I can use both. My OSX is installed on a PATA drive so haven't tried the SATA for installing. Accessing files on a SATA drive works without any problems though Next: Getting the realtek 882 HD audio to work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Promethe Posted September 5, 2005 Share Posted September 5, 2005 I still can't get it work I'll try with USB case... Is there anyone with Intel mobo and 945G/P chipset? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 (edited) Well, I looked up all the appropriate device IDs and have an install edited and ready to go when my parts come in a couple of days. I saw a lot of BSD and linux patches for things such as 945P PATA and SATA device IDs, ALC882 ones, and also 945G graphics device ID. So, I just did a grep -R for the 915 IDs and added the 945 ones in their place. Oh, and btw, for the ALC882, someone had the device ID inverted (as OS X would want it anyway). It should be 0x10ec0882. I'll let you all know how it goes and if it works I'll just package a bunch of kexts up. Oh, here are some useful links: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sy...x-cvsweb-markup http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/iii/?i=8086 http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/...zx-update.patch Edited September 6, 2005 by cyrana Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtle Posted September 6, 2005 Author Share Posted September 6, 2005 Well, I looked up all the appropriate device IDs and have an install edited and ready to go when my parts come in a couple of days. I saw a lot of BSD and linux patches for things such as 945P PATA and SATA device IDs, ALC882 ones, and also 945G graphics device ID. So, I just did a grep -R for the 915 IDs and added the 945 ones in their place. Oh, and btw, for the ALC882, someone had the device ID inverted (as OS X would want it anyway). It should be 0x10ec0882. I'll let you all know how it goes and if it works I'll just package a bunch of kexts up. Oh, here are some useful links: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sy...x-cvsweb-markup http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/iii/?i=8086 http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/...zx-update.patch <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks cyrana, very intresting links and I also get confused about the order of the ID. I'm not even quite sure which kext to modify at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted September 6, 2005 Share Posted September 6, 2005 There is a kext which has azalia in the name. I think that is the one for sound. At least it has the alc880 ID in it. If you look up the 915 IDs and do 'grep -R ID#' inside the extensions directory you can get an idea where things are hidden anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtle Posted September 6, 2005 Author Share Posted September 6, 2005 Thanks, I'm going to reboot into OS X now. have you had any luck yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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