mjwmzgywwvylv Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 Installed 10.4.5 on a clean system using "MacOSX_10.4.4DVD patched 10.4.5.iso" - Installed all hacks that came with installer ( AMD Enabler, 10.4.5 upgrade, etc) System is very sluggish, under 4MB/s in disk access under XBench. Under System Properties, SSE3 doesn't show up under CPU. This is a ULI chipset motherboard. Are any of these related? Thanks for any help you can provide. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14819-slow-hard-drive-access/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 you should post your system specs so we can help you out. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14819-slow-hard-drive-access/#findComment-95030 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjwmzgywwvylv Posted April 12, 2006 Author Share Posted April 12, 2006 Thanks for the response Motherboard : ASRock 939Dual-Sata2 - ULi 1695 chipset (ULi M1695/ ULi M1567) CPU : AMD Opteron 146 @ 2.75ghz Video : Geforce 6800LE AGP Network : RTL8129 (8139?, can't remember) - It works Hard Drive : 80gb Western Digital WD800BB (Primary Master IDE) - Single Active Partition OSX86 10.4.5 RAM : 512 MB PC3200 PS2 Keyboard and Mouse DVD was connected to Primary Slave, for installation. Removing it off Primary IDE didn't improve performance. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14819-slow-hard-drive-access/#findComment-95038 Share on other sites More sharing options...
New001 Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Thanks for the response Motherboard : ASRock 939Dual-Sata2 - ULi 1695 chipset (ULi M1695/ ULi M1567) CPU : AMD Opteron 146 @ 2.75ghz Video : Geforce 6800LE AGP Network : RTL8129 (8139?, can't remember) - It works Hard Drive : 80gb Western Digital WD800BB (Primary Master IDE) - Single Active Partition OSX86 10.4.5 RAM : 512 MB PC3200 PS2 Keyboard and Mouse DVD was connected to Primary Slave, for installation. Removing it off Primary IDE didn't improve performance. Maybe you should try doing a kextstat in Terminal and see if AppleGenericPCATA is loaded. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14819-slow-hard-drive-access/#findComment-95063 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjwmzgywwvylv Posted April 13, 2006 Author Share Posted April 13, 2006 Maybe you should try doing a kextstat in Terminal and see if AppleGenericPCATA is loaded. yup....AppleGenericPCATA is loaded Even tried reinstalling thru VMWare under XP. Disk access is way faster, like many times faster. Seems like there something with the IDE controller and the Generic ATA Driver. I wonder if there is a workaround. Also notice that SSE3 is not enabled under CPU Features in System Profiler. Is this normal? I have an AMD Opteron, and it does support SSE3. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14819-slow-hard-drive-access/#findComment-95214 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fOZf8 Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 SSE3 won't be listed if you have an sse3 cpu... anyway, would love to know if anyone has a suggestion for this...I can reimage my System drive to a sata if I really have to, but my DVD-RW well, obviously can't. I have been able to successfully burn at 2x, but I know from prior experience that 2x is really pushing the edge of pio4 mode...especially when your cpu is maxxed from it! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14819-slow-hard-drive-access/#findComment-106236 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxnick Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 Thanks for the response Motherboard : ASRock 939Dual-Sata2 - ULi 1695 chipset (ULi M1695/ ULi M1567) CPU : AMD Opteron 146 @ 2.75ghz Video : Geforce 6800LE AGP Network : RTL8129 (8139?, can't remember) - It works Hard Drive : 80gb Western Digital WD800BB (Primary Master IDE) - Single Active Partition OSX86 10.4.5 RAM : 512 MB PC3200 PS2 Keyboard and Mouse DVD was connected to Primary Slave, for installation. Removing it off Primary IDE didn't improve performance. how did you get your lan to work? i have the same board but dosent show up and i even tried the tulip driver thing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14819-slow-hard-drive-access/#findComment-209155 Share on other sites More sharing options...
donh Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 Thanks for the response Motherboard : ASRock 939Dual-Sata2 - ULi 1695 chipset (ULi M1695/ ULi M1567) CPU : AMD Opteron 146 @ 2.75ghz Video : Geforce 6800LE AGP Network : RTL8129 (8139?, can't remember) - It works Hard Drive : 80gb Western Digital WD800BB (Primary Master IDE) - Single Active Partition OSX86 10.4.5 RAM : 512 MB PC3200 PS2 Keyboard and Mouse DVD was connected to Primary Slave, for installation. Removing it off Primary IDE didn't improve performance. Go here and try this. It works for me with the same board. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...c=24047&hl= I have a Sata2 drive and 2 IDE all work fast. Don Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14819-slow-hard-drive-access/#findComment-209192 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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