The Basilisk Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 I installed OSX on a PATA because the installer couldn't recognize my SATA HDD. Once I got OSX installed on my PATA hard drive, I deleted AppleAHCIPort.kext and AppleVIAATA.kext from the extensions directory and replaced IOATAFamily.kext with a modified one. This made my SATA HDD get recognized. The only problem now is how would I install osx onto my SATA controller? Can I somehow modify the install DVD to include my modified IOATAFamily.kext and get rid of AppleAHCIPort.kext and AppleVIAATA.kext? I'd just like to know what would be easiest. Thanks in advance Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17475-got-osx-to-recognize-sata-hdd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
WileE Posted May 14, 2006 Share Posted May 14, 2006 I don't know about modifying the dvd, but if you already have it installed on your pata and osx recognizes your sata, you can use Disk Utility to format the sata drive. Then highlight your new volume on the sata drive in the sidebar, click on the restore tab, drag the boot volume from your pata drive into the source form, then drag your newly formatted volume from your sata into destination. There you have it, osx on your sata drive. Hope that helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17475-got-osx-to-recognize-sata-hdd/#findComment-112811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Basilisk Posted May 14, 2006 Author Share Posted May 14, 2006 Thanks for replying! Just one last question.... when you say boot volume do you mean my the PATA HDD where OSX is installed. I only have OSX installed on the PATA so do I just drag the PATA hard drive into the source volume? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17475-got-osx-to-recognize-sata-hdd/#findComment-112840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WileE Posted May 15, 2006 Share Posted May 15, 2006 Exactly, well almost. I was referring to your Pata drive, but you can't drag the drive itself, you have to drag the volume that's part of it. For instance, my hard drive shows up as: 279.5 GB ST3300631A My boot volume is just below that and is listed as StarrBoot In my instance, StarrBoot is what I would drag into source field. Same goes for the destination partition on your sata drive, drag the volumes of the drive, not the drive itself. Well, hope that helps. Can't really explain it any better without pics. Which I can try to accomplish if absolutely neccessary. Oh, and don't worry about being booted to the drive your copying, OS X doesn't care. Just don't have any apps running when you do it, to be on the safe side. I also didn't mention that this will take quite a while, much longer than you would expect. A fresh install is about 6GB, but this seems like it takes much longer than a 6GB copy and paste. Checking the skip checksums box speeds it up a little, but I wouldn't recommend it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17475-got-osx-to-recognize-sata-hdd/#findComment-112980 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Basilisk Posted May 15, 2006 Author Share Posted May 15, 2006 Exactly, well almost. I was referring to your Pata drive, but you can't drag the drive itself, you have to drag the volume that's part of it. For instance, my hard drive shows up as: 279.5 GB ST3300631A My boot volume is just below that and is listed as StarrBoot In my instance, StarrBoot is what I would drag into source field. Same goes for the destination partition on your sata drive, drag the volumes of the drive, not the drive itself. Well, hope that helps. Can't really explain it any better without pics. Which I can try to accomplish if absolutely neccessary. Oh, and don't worry about being booted to the drive your copying, OS X doesn't care. Just don't have any apps running when you do it, to be on the safe side. I also didn't mention that this will take quite a while, much longer than you would expect. A fresh install is about 6GB, but this seems like it takes much longer than a 6GB copy and paste. Checking the skip checksums box speeds it up a little, but I wouldn't recommend it. Awesome! Thanks for your your help. I did exactly what you said and it worked like a charm. I ran the disk test in Xbench and got a score of 87.57, more than double what I had with the PATA! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/17475-got-osx-to-recognize-sata-hdd/#findComment-113282 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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