Cant mount/unmount/format/install to hdd

[DrP]

Hi all,

 

Having troubles with HDD use in Snow Leopard (10.6.3). I am assuming its a issue to do with no AHCI support but could be wrong. So using a IBM Laptop Thinkpad T43. Has Intel 915GM GPU, Centrino 1.8GHz CPU, 1.5GB RAM, 40GB HDD using the intel ICH6 chipset.

 

I started by trying to install the iATKOS S3 version2 DVD. I have a 26GB WinXP partition and the rest (~12GB) space to be used for OSX install. The DVD loads up fine and can use but when I open Disk Utility to format the 2nd partition to HFS+ it cant unmount the partition. I will shutdown and restart Disk Utility and this time just right click to unmount 2nd partition (FAT32) but it eventually times out saying it cant unmount and that to make sure files are not in use on the partition. I then used the linux distro PartedMagic to format the 2nd partition to HFS, reload the iATKOS DVD and then go to install to the drive but it just sits there.

 

So next I tried iPortable on a USB pen drive (10.6.2). Again it loads up the OS and all seems to work fine off the pen drive in using the OS. Jsut slow. So using Disk utility again I try to format the 2nd partition on my laptops HDD but same as above problem. Cant unmount, etc.

 

Some time ago I did have OSX Leopard on this laptop (iDeneb v1.4) and it worked.

 

So I typed up this post as I am lost as to where to start in troubleshooting this issue. Been away from the OSX scene for some time. And hoping someone can shed some light on the matter for me. Not sure if its a AHCI issue, or needing a hacked IDE controller kext (netkas?), or my laptop is simply just too old for snow leopard?

 

Thanks,

 

Paul.

[tobyx]

Unfortunately I also have this problem with my T43...

I can't install driver or programs like Dreamweaver...

I have Hazard Version 10.6.2 SSE2/SSE3 Intel AMD.

 

Please help!