hork Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Hello! I've tried IPC and ideneb and both won't detect my hard drive. Sata hard drive. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813128376 amd motherboard Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226740-wont-find-my-hard-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Try a more AMD friendly distro such as Leo4All or Zephyroth. Hard drive is not important at all, it's the motherboard hard drive controller that matters. SATA controllers must be set to AHCI mode in the BIOS. Make sure your drive is connected to your primary SATA controller - nforce, Intel ICHx - not off-chip secondary like JMicron, Silicon Image or Marvell. There's a whole subforum dedicated to the subject here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showforum=155 Also no-one is going to follow a link to an external site to look up your specs for you. When asking for help the least you can do is either post them or add them to your sig. Make it easy to help you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226740-wont-find-my-hard-drive/#findComment-1519986 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hork Posted July 27, 2010 Author Share Posted July 27, 2010 My bad. It's a GIGABYTE GA-MA770-UD3 motherboard. Chipsets North Bridge AMD 770 South Bridge AMD SB700 I'll take a swing over to the other board, thank you! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226740-wont-find-my-hard-drive/#findComment-1519998 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted July 27, 2010 Share Posted July 27, 2010 Use google or the forum search and search for SB700.kext and AppleATIATA.kext. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226740-wont-find-my-hard-drive/#findComment-1520002 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hork Posted July 28, 2010 Author Share Posted July 28, 2010 Thank you so much. Would I put just SB700.kext to the CD and try that, or do I put both SB700.kext and AppleATIATA.kext to the CD? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226740-wont-find-my-hard-drive/#findComment-1520011 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 I can't be more specific, you're going to have to make sure that either of those kexts are actually compatible with your hardware, apparently there are several variants of the SB700. You need to google and use the search and fill in the missing pieces yourself. You can open the kext (it's really just a folder with a different icon) and find a list of device IDs in the info.plist (that's an XML formatted text document) inside. If the device ID of your SB700 Southbridge appears on that list, then you can (probably) use the kernel extension. So if that's what you want to do, your first step is to find out what your SB700's device ID is. You can use a Linux live CD or Windows' Device Manager to find that information. Be aware that you're on thin ice as far as compatibility goes, things get much, much less complicated if you have nforce or intel chipset as that's what Apple use. Don't use both kernel extensions at the same time unless you find information that specifically says you must do that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226740-wont-find-my-hard-drive/#findComment-1520025 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hork Posted July 28, 2010 Author Share Posted July 28, 2010 Found the kext I needed, what do you recommend how I add it to my .iso? Mount the .iso with transmac and apply the AppleOnboardPCATA.kext? Thanks. Should I use IOATAFamily.kext or AppleOnboardPCATA.kext? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226740-wont-find-my-hard-drive/#findComment-1520060 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 Found the kext I needed, what do you recommend how I add it to my .iso? There are tutorials around that deal with this. I never had to do that myself so I don't know anything about it. Should I use IOATAFamily.kext or AppleOnboardPCATA.kext? Refer to my post above. Try searching the forums and use google, find out what others with the same hardware have done. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226740-wont-find-my-hard-drive/#findComment-1520135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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