dingobiatch Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 I have a DFI NF4 Lanparty SLI-DR motherboard, with a SATA Western Digital 74gb Raptor drive attached. After trying to get OSX working on my system for the last week, I finally realized that OSX just doesn't recognize my HD. I tried using a patched DVD installer, and even Disk Utility wouldn't show my harddrive. If I used the DD method, I couldn't boot because it would say "Still waiting for root device". I finally got the system up and running by installing on my 120GB usb drive, however I am mad cause I cannot access my SATA drive from inside OSX. How would I go about doing it normally (say my SATA drive was being recognized..)? Also, at the moment, I have to use the BIOS boot menu to boot off my USB drive to get into OSX. Is there anything I can add to my boot.ini file to boot into OSX? I have tried putting the chain0 file on my NTFS partition of my USB drive, but when I select OSX on bootup, the computer restarts. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1613-sata-drive-not-recognized-in-anything/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingobiatch Posted August 31, 2005 Author Share Posted August 31, 2005 Can anyone answer? I have tried searching, and from what I see on the forums, pretty much everyone has SATA drives working fine.. is it something to do with my NF4 motherboard? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1613-sata-drive-not-recognized-in-anything/#findComment-10487 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryzir Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 I had a similar problem with my sata. I found out that in the bios of my mobo (abit ai7) there was an option to set the sata to ide or raid. I had it set to raid so OSX wouldn't load (got stuck on waiting for root device). So after I changed this it booted up no problem. The sata controller I have is the Intel ICH5R. I also have a pci Sil3114 sata and OSX doesn't reconize it. Good Luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1613-sata-drive-not-recognized-in-anything/#findComment-10491 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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