bob_the_d Posted July 2, 2006 Share Posted July 2, 2006 Well, there actually were enough. Most tutorials, lists and forum threats say something along the lines of "SATA is not supported." But what I'm wondering is what exactly does that mean? I'm new to the whole OSx86 thing (I just signed up on this forum today and have been poking around the wiki and the forums all day). My system run on an MSI K8N Neo4 which uses nVidia's nForce4 chipset. I also use a 250GB SATA drive on it. Is it that straightforward? If the only drive I have is on the SATA bus, am I completely out of luck? Or is there some kind of workaround that I haven't found yet? Hoping someone can provide me with some insight on this issue because I don't want to go ahead and wipe my drive only to find that I get stuck on that grey apple loadup screen since it can't find my disk. I'm also hoping that there is in fact some way for me to install OSx86 and that I just wasn't able to find it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20898-yet-another-nforce4-sata-question/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_the_d Posted July 3, 2006 Author Share Posted July 3, 2006 ...anyone? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20898-yet-another-nforce4-sata-question/#findComment-138746 Share on other sites More sharing options...
^kaneda Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 actually i feel the same when i bought my new sata driver ( 160gb sata2 ) with a nforce4 chipset, but god .. lightme and i intall it using vmware station with a real DVD OSX86 10.4.6 // now i already hav it working .. but fixing several thinks that make it freeze :$... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20898-yet-another-nforce4-sata-question/#findComment-138779 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_the_d Posted July 3, 2006 Author Share Posted July 3, 2006 ...I have no idea what you just said. Nobody else has any thoughts about this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20898-yet-another-nforce4-sata-question/#findComment-138823 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsguerry Posted July 3, 2006 Share Posted July 3, 2006 I also have an nforce4 mobo (Asus A8N-E) with a 160gb SATA drive. My solution was to grab one of my old IDE drives that were laying around (30gb maxtor IDE) and attach it to my primary IDE channel. I use the 160gb SATA for Win MCE and I use the 30gb IDE for my 10.4.6 install. I just use the boot menu from my mobo's bios to pick which drive to boot. If you are wondering why SATA doesn't work on nforce4, I'm not entirely sure. I do know that it's due to a lack of support by way of drivers. If OSX does not have builtin drivers for nforce4 SATA and no one has spent time developing them yet, then we are just going to have to settle for IDE for now. I know there is SATA support for intel chipsets I believe on the JAS 10.4.6 install DVD. So it's more a chipset issue than anything else. Same reason nforce4 NIC doesn't work either; although I believe there is a driver floating around for that now. Hope this helps somewhat. :-) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20898-yet-another-nforce4-sata-question/#findComment-139034 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_the_d Posted July 3, 2006 Author Share Posted July 3, 2006 Yeah, I guess that clears things up. It's kind of disheartening in a way. I've been a Mac user for about half a decade now and I was hoping to put OSX on my PC ever since they made the switch to Intel. OSX on my Apple computers have been nothing but good to me, but I also love performance machines which is why I got excited when I thought about the prospect of throwing on OSX on a low cost AMD performance rig, for example. Ah well. I guess that leaves me out of luck since I only use SATA drives now. Thanks anyway though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/20898-yet-another-nforce4-sata-question/#findComment-139081 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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