Black Knight Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 The reason your vt6421L card doesn't work is not because of your nForce chipset, it is because the 6421L is not bootable (PERIOD!!!). As far as the 3132 Sil, I have this one on my motherboard as well and it does not get recognized by any of the drivers I've tried so far, which is quite a few. Fortunately for me, my ULi 5288 (1575 southbridge) works great and I don't need any of the other ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaderd Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 I can confirm that an SI3312 works using the method "erikk" describes! Finally I have all my drives! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erikk Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 I can confirm that an SI3312 works using the method "erikk" describes! Finally I have all my drives! great to hear! so there is a cheap option to get sata on osx without problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeSuKuN Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 mine (SIL3132 pcie x1 sata II hotplug NCQ RAID) costs about 20$ and I hope I'll work with this patch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erikk Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 mine (SIL3132 pcie x1 sata II hotplug NCQ RAID) costs about 20$ and I hope I'll work with this patch for windows... silicon image has diferent drivers between 3112 and 3132. but there is also a sata bios for sil3132. http://www.station-drivers.com/page/silicon%20image.htm good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asstastic Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Some People ask me how i get the SL 3112 Sata Controller to work. Instructions: 1. You have to patch the controller with ide-bios (standard seems raid controller) (you get it on silicon image website) 2. you have to edit the Appleviaata.kext with you vendor and product id. repair permissions and restart in attachment my kext.file Appleviaata.kext note: for install on sata system you have to patch your install-dvd with that kext or buy a ide-sata convertor (so you can plug a sata harddisk on ide port and can install, after installation you have to do the procedure good luck! don't know if this is covered earlier in the thread but do you think this method will work with a 3112 chip directly on a motherboard itself? i assume the chip is routed over the pci bus anyways but it may use some fancy interconnect like intel uses for their gigabit lan, or does it even matter? i would test it out but i don't have the computer in question at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erikk Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 don't know if this is covered earlier in the thread but do you think this method will work with a 3112 chip directly on a motherboard itself? i assume the chip is routed over the pci bus anyways but it may use some fancy interconnect like intel uses for their gigabit lan, or does it even matter? i would test it out but i don't have the computer in question at the moment. i think it works also there... take a look in windows and search if your controller is found as a pci device Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJ7 Posted August 7, 2006 Author Share Posted August 7, 2006 grrrr. I bought the SATA adapter...BlackKnight, you are full of it...This is the opposite adapter from what I need. Thanks. A bunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Knight Posted August 7, 2006 Share Posted August 7, 2006 AJ7, what are you talking about. You needed the one that converted an IDE channel to SATA drive, right? If so, the one you linked to is the correct adapter. I know because I have the same exact one. Show me a picture of the one you got and I'll tell you if you got the right one. I hope you're joking about saying I'm full of it as all I've tried to do in this topic is help everyone here get their drives to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonusr Posted September 25, 2006 Share Posted September 25, 2006 Anyone find a four (or more) port card that works? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warped1 Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 I can't believe there isn't a 4 port sata II card out there that will work. Any progress with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drd21 Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 ive got the same problem. im looking for a pci card to add 4 sata ports cause i want to add massive storage to my osx86 used as server. no need to boot from the drives. its enought that i use the hdds attached with sata. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jester1o1 Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 Get an Silicon Image 3114 or 3514, add the id to the VIA kext and hey-presto it will work 100% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raod Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Hello. After update the bios of the card (mine includes one CD with the both bios and flash app) and edit the kext it's working!! I'm running OS X 10.4.8 with 8.8.1 kernel. Thanks a lot for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazyJAT Posted June 10, 2010 Share Posted June 10, 2010 Hello. After update the bios of the card (mine includes one CD with the both bios and flash app) and edit the kext it's working!! I'm running OS X 10.4.8 with 8.8.1 kernel. Thanks a lot for the info. What CD? I have a Sil3114 I want to get working. Can you provide the flash app and bios? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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