nederzoli Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 Hey there. So I have two 500GB HDD's connected in Raid 0. I re-sized the partition from the remaining space, so i would have 50GB to install Leopard. I partitioned it in Windows 7, everything was OK, except in the Mac OS X Installer, at Disk Utility, my 50GB partition won't show up. Is it possible to install leopard/snow leopard on that partition, and if yes, how do i fix it to show up in disk utility? Thanks in advance. Zoli. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226944-raid-question/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
FKA Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 Firstly you must supply more information. System specs, RAID card specs etc etc .. Secondly (and MOST importantly.) have you bothered to do any investigation into this yourself? There is already enough information around for you to work this out by searching and reading !! D Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226944-raid-question/#findComment-1521186 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nederzoli Posted July 29, 2010 Author Share Posted July 29, 2010 Firstly you must supply more information. System specs, RAID card specs etc etc .. Secondly (and MOST importantly.) have you bothered to do any investigation into this yourself? There is already enough information around for you to work this out by searching and reading !! D Motherboard : Gigabyte EP45-DS3R Chipset : Intel Core 2 Duo, E7300, 2.66 ghz RAM : 4GB Graphics : Nvidia GeForce 7950GT -512MB Audio : Realtek ALC889a My hard drives are : two Seagate ST3500320AS. (500GB each, connected in RAID 0) sorry, i don't know what to search for exactly. : s Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226944-raid-question/#findComment-1521191 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FKA Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 sorry, i don't know what to search for exactly. : s maybe "Insainlymac snow leopard RAID install" might be a good place to start ! and your RAID card is ???? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226944-raid-question/#findComment-1521202 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nederzoli Posted July 29, 2010 Author Share Posted July 29, 2010 maybe "Insainlymac snow leopard RAID install" might be a good place to start ! and your RAID card is ???? it's a shame, but i don't know how to determine my raid controller card. i don't know what my card is. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226944-raid-question/#findComment-1521204 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FKA Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 it's a shame, but i don't know how to determine my raid controller card.i don't know what my card is. then I suggest you give up ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226944-raid-question/#findComment-1521207 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nederzoli Posted July 29, 2010 Author Share Posted July 29, 2010 then I suggest you give up ! haha. you're really helpful. i guess in that case i'll buy a new hard drive, if you are THIS helpful. anyways. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226944-raid-question/#findComment-1521208 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FKA Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 haha. you're really helpful. i guess in that case i'll buy a new hard drive, if you are THIS helpful. anyways. I'm not psychic mate ... do some research by yourself, then if you're still stuck come back and pose your question supplying us with all the information we need to help you. OK! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226944-raid-question/#findComment-1521209 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nederzoli Posted July 29, 2010 Author Share Posted July 29, 2010 I'm not psychic mate ... do some research by yourself, then if you're still stuck come back and pose your question supplying us with all the information we need to help you. OK! i'm sorry but i'm really new to the forums, i searched for hours, still no answer. could you just please help? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226944-raid-question/#findComment-1521310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 This is not about being new to forums. It's about common sense, how can people help you if you don't provide any information. Make it easy to help you. On top of that, most people will not bother helping at all if they sense that the poster has very little knowledge, and hasn't done any homework or research before asking for help. Use some kind of system information tool to determine what hardware you have. If you have Windows installed, you can open the Device Manager and check there. Or you can use something like Lavalys Everest. On OS X you can use something like LSPCI. Read your motherboard manual, google your motherboard make and model. This is pretty basic stuff, rule number one of Hackintosh club is "know your hardware". I'm guessing your board uses the ICH10R, but that's just a guess, and even if I'm right, your RAID array is not necessarily connected to the ICH10R, some boards have a secondary, off-chipset SATA/RAID controller. My board has Intel P45 chipset and ICH10R, but it has two more drive controllers, one from Marvell and one from Silicon Image. So hopefully you can see now why you're getting the type of response you're getting. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226944-raid-question/#findComment-1521324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FKA Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 EDIT !Gringo is right - It is very annoying trying to help someone who hasn't helped themselves 1st .. However I'm feeling in a good mood today ! ... if you are trying to use the onboard RAID card (ICH9R, or ICH10R or Jmicron controller.) of your motherboard it wont work. If you want to boot from RAID you need to find a RAID card with OS X 10.6 support. for example anything with the silicon image sil3132 chip (there is a lot around.) Although even this has some problems (breaks sleep for me and have KP on wake from sleep.) Best bet is a HighPoint Rocket RAID but again make sure it's a model with 10.6 support. And highpoint are not cheap. Else plumb for a software RAID but windows wont recognise it. Or you can set a RAID if you have ICH10R chipset that can be seen in OS X but you can't install to it. Also - I'm not from an IT background - I'd build 2 working hackintosh's b4 I made my 1st post - and that post was an Install guide! Search, Read and Learn ! Good luck! D Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226944-raid-question/#findComment-1521325 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nederzoli Posted July 29, 2010 Author Share Posted July 29, 2010 EDIT !Gringo is right - It is very annoying trying to help someone who hasn't helped themselves 1st .. However I'm feeling in a good mood today ! ... if you are trying to use the onboard RAID card (ICH9R, or ICH10R or Jmicron controller.) of your motherboard it wont work. If you want to boot from RAID you need to find a RAID card with OS X 10.6 support. for example anything with the silicon image sil3132 chip (there is a lot around.) Although even this has some problems (breaks sleep for me and have KP on wake from sleep.) Best bet is a HighPoint Rocket RAID but again make sure it's a model with 10.6 support. And highpoint are not cheap. Else plumb for a software RAID but windows wont recognise it. Or you can set a RAID if you have ICH10R chipset that can be seen in OS X but you can't install to it. Also - I'm not from an IT background - I'd build 2 working hackintosh's b4 I made my 1st post - and that post was an Install guide! Search, Read and Learn ! Good luck! D Sorry guys for being rude, i looked it up in Everest, it says my RAID Controller is : Intel® ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO SATA RAID-controller so i guess it won't work. i'll buy a hdd just for Snow Leopard, maybe 320-500GB. thanks again! Zoli. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226944-raid-question/#findComment-1521341 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted July 29, 2010 Share Posted July 29, 2010 looked it up in Everest, it says my RAID Controller is : Intel® ICH8R/ICH9R/ICH10R/DO SATA RAID-controller Then Everest is not accurate enough, it can't be all three. I'm 98% sure that your board has ICH10R, which means RAID will work - follow the link FKA posted above. If you want to know for sure, then look up your motherboard at Gigabyte's website, check your motherboard manual, the information is there. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226944-raid-question/#findComment-1521363 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nederzoli Posted July 30, 2010 Author Share Posted July 30, 2010 Then Everest is not accurate enough, it can't be all three.I'm 98% sure that your board has ICH10R, which means RAID will work - follow the link FKA posted above. If you want to know for sure, then look up your motherboard at Gigabyte's website, check your motherboard manual, the information is there. i created a partition from my raid volume in windows, so i can't do that. i checked the website, it's ICH10R. i can't fix it in OS X, because my partition won't show up in the disk utility, at the Installer. i'm not even in OS X now. if i did install leopard or snow leopard before it would work, but i want to use the resized/moved partition (50 GB) which i created. the best way is to install it in AHCI mode, not RAID. so i should get my new hard drive i guess. thanks for the help though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226944-raid-question/#findComment-1521400 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FKA Posted July 30, 2010 Share Posted July 30, 2010 no problem. but dude, as i said read - from the link i posted about ICH10 RAID mode: "This means you can now use Hardware RAID…well for Windows/Linux at least" most of what you need to know is already out there. remember, you aint the first person to build a hack! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226944-raid-question/#findComment-1521401 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted July 30, 2010 Share Posted July 30, 2010 Hang on - there's no need to disable RAID in the BIOS. RAID mode implies AHCI, even though OS X can't see the RAID array (sounds like that's what's happening to you?) OS X will install and work fine on a third drive. You could also add two drives instead of one, and make a software RAID just for OS X. ICH10 has native support in OS X, but ICH10R does not - it will work, but it's recognized as 'generic SATA controller'. You can use the AHCI kexts that come with the Chameleon bootloader binary download (visit the official site and grab it there) to get your ICH10R properly recognized. Or you can do what it says on that page FKA linked to - modify the ICH10 device ID so that it matches the ICH10R device ID. End result should be the same. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/226944-raid-question/#findComment-1521444 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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