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I've been really happy with a GA-EP45-DS3R-based setup. It's a rock with 10.5.7 on an IDE drive installed using one of the sticky posts at the top of the 10.5 forum (this method uses the 10.5 retail DVD, a combo updater, Chameleon EFI and postpatch to swap out some kexts). (I didn't use the ls8 method, FYI)

 

The problem comes in when I install to a SATA drive. Everything is fine at first, but I get random lockups. On the first SATA HD I installed to, the lockup SEEMED to trash the SATA drive but now I'm not so sure. I installed to a second SATA HD, and it locked up as well after not a lot of time, but seems recoverable, and even bootable again; but it locks up again randomly.

 

Meanwhile the IDE install is a rock. It never locks up, leaving me a safe backup for playing around.

 

Does anyone have any suggestions? Is it the JMicron kext, and do I need another version of this file? Is it because I'm using an IDE HD, a SATA HD and a SATA DVD in the same machine? I've read that you don't want to mix an IDE DVD with a SATA HD. I'm pretty noobish but I can follow directions well, so if anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate it. Would removing the IDE HD make a difference? Using the ls8 method to install?

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Anyone have any suggestions? (bump!)

 

I have that board all SATA drives in AHCI mode on the Intel connections never had a problem yet. What you may want to try if you have over 3gb of ram is remove the excess to see if you are hitting that bug but you would think it would show up using the IDE or install onto the SATA then disable the Jmicron controler in the BIOS to see if this helps when you boot off of it. BTW you may want to make a signature listing all hardware in the machine so it makes it easier for people to help you.

Just following up. I removed the IDE drives completely, disabled the IDE controller in the BIOS, and am on 100% SATA and not experiencing lockups or issues. I can only conclude that there was some latent issue between the IDE bus and the SATA bus on this MOBO and that disabling IDE is the way to go. At least, with the driver kexts I had installed.

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I have a similar problem, but my mainboard is ga-p31-ds3l, its a gigabyte too..

the sata controller is ICH7 .. it should be compatible out of the box. still..

my problem is that using any sata harddisks in my hackintosh produces recurring disk I/O errors in the console at random times, till it ends up damaging the disk directory which gives me the error: invalid node structure in the disk utility.., and if i try to do a surface scan on the disk it reports bad blocks due to the I/O errors..

 

still my IDE drive working without a problem. it seems that its only related to sata controller ?

 

anyway i tried hocking my sata drives with a sata to usb adaptor.. to my usb ports and boot from it... and surprisingly, those problems does not happen anymore, and also surface scans does not report any bad blocks.. so now I am sure that the disks are fine.. so the problem now relies in the sata controllers!

 

anybody has an insight ?

I have two SATA hard disks connected to my EP45-UD3. One of the disks (Seagate 7200.11 series) used to run unreliably at 3Gb data rate, but does not cause any trouble now with half rate (1.5Gb) jumper set. The other disk (Seagate 7200.12 series) is fine with 3Gb rate.

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