J.K. Hax Posted May 31, 2009 Share Posted May 31, 2009 Currently sitting next to a machine with an ASUS P5VD2-X motherboard and the apparantly infamous JMicron SATA controller. No matter what I try, I can't get my hard disk to appear in Disk Utility. I know the disk has JMicronATA.kext on it, I see it spew a bunch of stuff to the console on boot. I tried setting the controller to AHCI/RAID mode instead of IDE mode; doesn't work. All I see is the two IDE devices (DVD-RW and DVD-ROM drives) and no SATA devices. The best part is, under System Profiler, under Serial-ATA is "JMicron JMB36x AHCI". Twice. OSX is taunting me. The JMicron kext is there, it just doesn't want to actually work. Is there some better version of this kext I can get for this thing; some BIOS setting I'm missing, or is this thing just plain OSX-resistant? I apologise in advance if someone's already fixed it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/168589-i-hate-you-jmicron-another-i-cant-find-my-hard-drive-thread/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
walterav Posted May 31, 2009 Share Posted May 31, 2009 Currently sitting next to a machine with an ASUS P5VD2-X motherboard and the apparantly infamous JMicron SATA controller. No matter what I try, I can't get my hard disk to appear in Disk Utility. I know the disk has JMicronATA.kext on it, I see it spew a bunch of stuff to the console on boot. I tried setting the controller to AHCI/RAID mode instead of IDE mode; doesn't work. All I see is the two IDE devices (DVD-RW and DVD-ROM drives) and no SATA devices. The best part is, under System Profiler, under Serial-ATA is "JMicron JMB36x AHCI". Twice. OSX is taunting me. The JMicron kext is there, it just doesn't want to actually work. Is there some better version of this kext I can get for this thing; some BIOS setting I'm missing, or is this thing just plain OSX-resistant? I apologise in advance if someone's already fixed it. Dude calm down... what version of osx are you using? a distro or a retail installation? 10.5.x? What is the device-id of your controller? Jmicron sata ahci doesn't need patches from a retail disk it just works! So don't screw around with JmicronATA.kext its just for the "ide ATA/PATA port" which I rather not use because of 2 gig ram kernel panic bug! It works on "ASUS P5k-e wifi ap" and maybe many other asus boards, also on p35/p45/x58 gigaybyte boards! So Esata / jmicron sata works fine out of the box even hotswap! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/168589-i-hate-you-jmicron-another-i-cant-find-my-hard-drive-thread/#findComment-1166507 Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.K. Hax Posted June 1, 2009 Author Share Posted June 1, 2009 Dude calm down... what version of osx are you using?a distro or a retail installation? 10.5.x? What is the device-id of your controller? Jmicron sata ahci doesn't need patches from a retail disk it just works! So don't screw around with JmicronATA.kext its just for the "ide ATA/PATA port" which I rather not use because of 2 gig ram kernel panic bug! It works on "ASUS P5k-e wifi ap" and maybe many other asus boards, also on p35/p45/x58 gigaybyte boards! So Esata / jmicron sata works fine out of the box even hotswap! First off, I apologise if I came off as arrogant, angry, or frustrated in the last post. Second, I'm currently using Kalyway 10.5.2. I haven't screwed around with the JMicronATA.kext; I don't need to since I'm using SATA drives. I do not know if whoever prepared Kalyway slipstreamed a modified kext into the disk. Should I try using retail Leopard instead? I'm aware that other people have gotten this particular controller to work by setting it to AHCI mode. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/168589-i-hate-you-jmicron-another-i-cant-find-my-hard-drive-thread/#findComment-1167113 Share on other sites More sharing options...
walterav Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 First off, I apologise if I came off as arrogant, angry, or frustrated in the last post. Second, I'm currently using Kalyway 10.5.2. I haven't screwed around with the JMicronATA.kext; I don't need to since I'm using SATA drives. I do not know if whoever prepared Kalyway slipstreamed a modified kext into the disk. Should I try using retail Leopard instead? I'm aware that other people have gotten this particular controller to work by setting it to AHCI mode. Off course try retail leopard its better to maintain and it may even update without hassles Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/168589-i-hate-you-jmicron-another-i-cant-find-my-hard-drive-thread/#findComment-1168307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxtie Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 hmmm, my eSata works fine with jMicron JMB363 (hopefully it should work with plain SATA aswell) I updated JMicron BIOS + OSX drivers from official site HERE: ftp://driver.jmicron.com.tw Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/168589-i-hate-you-jmicron-another-i-cant-find-my-hard-drive-thread/#findComment-1172073 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpkp Posted July 20, 2009 Share Posted July 20, 2009 Dude calm down... what version of osx are you using?a distro or a retail installation? 10.5.x? What is the device-id of your controller? Jmicron sata ahci doesn't need patches from a retail disk it just works! So don't screw around with JmicronATA.kext its just for the "ide ATA/PATA port" which I rather not use because of 2 gig ram kernel panic bug! It works on "ASUS P5k-e wifi ap" and maybe many other asus boards, also on p35/p45/x58 gigaybyte boards! So Esata / jmicron sata works fine out of the box even hotswap! Can u tell me what kexts are you using? I can make my controller to find the IDE HD but i get an input/output error and i cant mount the HD, if you could share the kexts you use for your install would be great. On my ASUS P5k-e wifi ap everything works exempt the PATA controller, idk it might be the IONetworkingFamily.kext? THX Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/168589-i-hate-you-jmicron-another-i-cant-find-my-hard-drive-thread/#findComment-1204548 Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=147102 ich8 + jmicron, both AHCI run with this solution ( in /extra/extensions.mkext) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/168589-i-hate-you-jmicron-another-i-cant-find-my-hard-drive-thread/#findComment-1205392 Share on other sites More sharing options...
B@sti Posted February 6, 2010 Share Posted February 6, 2010 Currently sitting next to a machine with an ASUS P5VD2-X motherboard and the apparantly infamous JMicron SATA controller. No matter what I try, I can't get my hard disk to appear in Disk Utility. I know the disk has JMicronATA.kext on it, I see it spew a bunch of stuff to the console on boot. I tried setting the controller to AHCI/RAID mode instead of IDE mode; doesn't work. All I see is the two IDE devices (DVD-RW and DVD-ROM drives) and no SATA devices. The best part is, under System Profiler, under Serial-ATA is "JMicron JMB36x AHCI". Twice. OSX is taunting me. The JMicron kext is there, it just doesn't want to actually work. Is there some better version of this kext I can get for this thing; some BIOS setting I'm missing, or is this thing just plain OSX-resistant? I apologise in advance if someone's already fixed it. hey guys, i know this topic is quite old but may u can help me... i've got the same problem as above and read a lot of content on "how to solve" the problem. 'cause i' m really really new to this i don't have the sligthest idea on how to include the needed kexts into the installation dvd..... i would really appreciate if u can help me! thx B@sti Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/168589-i-hate-you-jmicron-another-i-cant-find-my-hard-drive-thread/#findComment-1404715 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vdkleijn Posted February 8, 2010 Share Posted February 8, 2010 I have another strange JMicron problem on 10.6.2 My timemachine drive is attached to the JMicron port but it disconnects randomly This is the log about it: Feb 8 08:58:34 pimpc kernel[0]: AppleAHCIPort::HandleInterruptRequest - Port 1 - HBA has trouble accessing main memory. Going to restart port. intStatus 0x20000000 Feb 8 09:01:05 pimpc kernel[0]: SATA WARNING: Enable auto-activate failed. Feb 8 09:05:11 pimpc kernel[0]: Failed to issue COM RESET successfully after 3 attempts. Failing... Feb 8 09:05:11 pimpc kernel[0]: disk2s2: no such device. Feb 8 09:05:11 pimpc kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: do_jnl_io: strategy err 0x6 Feb 8 09:05:11 pimpc kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: end_transaction: only wrote 0 of 40960 bytes to the journal! Feb 8 09:05:11 pimpc kernel[0]: disk2s2: media is not present. Feb 8 09:05:11: --- last message repeated 7 times --- Feb 8 09:05:11 pimpc kernel[0]: jnl: disk2s2: close: journal 0xffffff800ea65d20, is invalid. aborting outstanding transactions Feb 8 09:19:42 pimpc kernel[0]: AppleAHCIPort::HandleInterruptRequest - Port 0 - HBA has trouble accessing main memory. Going to restart port. intStatus 0x20000000 Feb 8 09:20:12: --- last message repeated 11 times --- Is my drive faulty or is this a OSX <-> JMicron problem? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/168589-i-hate-you-jmicron-another-i-cant-find-my-hard-drive-thread/#findComment-1405915 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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