Nagug Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 First post.. Thanks for the great tutorials and great resources. It was a great feeling when Kalway 10.5.2 worked out of box in Asus A8N-VM board (AMD 64 3000+ processor). Had some initial issues in booting, but disabling legacy USB solved those issues. It worked like charm. Nvidia 8600GT hard no issues in getting detected. Audio is awesome. However there are some issues. Mac is not recognising my IDE Hard drive. (IDE DVD drive got detected). Sata works perfectly. Mac Installation is also in 160 GB SATA drive. IDE drive is 40GB samsung harddisk. connected currenly as primary Slave.(Was forced to connect like this as my Motherboard was not allowing any other config!) Tried Jas 10.4.8 earlier. No hard drive was detected and then tried Kalway 10.5.2. It detected all my USB disks and the one SATA drive. But no IDE was detected. Diskutil did not recognise the IDE drive at all. Is this any thing to do with AHCI Mode or anything. In Bios I saw the mode as enabled. This problem look like a key to multiboot and my windows vista installation is in the IDE. (I screwed its MBR in the process for solving this. . Thats fine. I can afford to lose it) I have some networking issues as well. But that i ll try to figure it out. I need help in detecting my IDE drive. Please help. My Specs AMD 64 3000+ ASUS A8N-VM mother board (its not ASUS A8N-VM CSM or SLI board which are normally popular) Using Adding PCI-E Nvidia 8600GT (Works pefectly) On board Audio (This also rocks) On board ethernet (nforce410. Card dectected, however the problem of self assigned IP!..currently using forcedeth) 160GB Sata drive (Detected and Mac has been installed in this. two other NTFS partitions in the same drive can be accessed from Mac) 40GB IDE drive (Not at all detected!..need help here) 2 USB drives - 320GB IOdata and 80GB logitec (Both detected.working perfectly) Partitions are like this 160GB -> 80GB (HFS+), 40GB (NTFS) and 40GB (NTFS) (All got detected) 40 GB -> NTFS (Vista Installation is here) More details of my Motherboard can be seen here. Thanks, Nagu Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152795-sovledsata-detected-but-not-ide/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorazine74 Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 AHCI only applies to SATA ports. Are both devices plugged on the same cable? Try different cables if possible. Also check what driver you are using for the ata ports and see if there is an alt kext you can use. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152795-sovledsata-detected-but-not-ide/#findComment-1079328 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagug Posted February 13, 2009 Author Share Posted February 13, 2009 AHCI only applies to SATA ports.Are both devices plugged on the same cable? Try different cables if possible. Also check what driver you are using for the ata ports and see if there is an alt kext you can use. No both are not using same cable. Any suggestions on alternate ATA kext!? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152795-sovledsata-detected-but-not-ide/#findComment-1079394 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorazine74 Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 I'm not sure if thats posible to have a slave ide device without a master connected, is it detected by BIOS or other OS? Why do you say you are forced to have it that way? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152795-sovledsata-detected-but-not-ide/#findComment-1079639 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagug Posted February 14, 2009 Author Share Posted February 14, 2009 I can access the disk in Vista. and even linux recognises it. Only issue is with my Mac cannot see it at all!! For now, I have installed Mac and Vista in the same SATA drive. Every thing works perfect. Even networking I put in the new Nforcelan Kext and it also rocks. The only issue is still Mac cannot see this 40 GB IDE Any options or pointers would be excellent Thanks, Nagu Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152795-sovledsata-detected-but-not-ide/#findComment-1079977 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorazine74 Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 I would first try to physically connect the disk in a standard way (plugged at the end of the cable and jumpered as master or cable select), if it still doesnt work that way post a lspci or ioreg dump to see if someone can suggest a better kext for that device id. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152795-sovledsata-detected-but-not-ide/#findComment-1080261 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagug Posted February 15, 2009 Author Share Posted February 15, 2009 thanx..thorazine74.. sorry for late reply. It worked. Interestingly i tried that before i saw your reply. However million thanks for your support. I had earlier connected my 40 GB as primary slave and there wasnt any primary master and hence, it darwin could not recognise my disk. However changing the harddisk to Primary master helped. Now every thing working perfectly. VMware fusion even recognized my Vista partition as bootcamp partition, tried running that it also worked. Now every thing is perfect. Lets see if there is any long term issue! Thanks again, Nagu Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/152795-sovledsata-detected-but-not-ide/#findComment-1080908 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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