Sneakeh Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 So I was trying to install OSX ( Mac OS X 10.4.6 x86 Install DVD (JaS) ) last night, but I ran into a problem.. When I opened the drive utility in the installer, only my DVD drive was listed, the 15 gb partition i had formatted as FAT32 was not there, and yes it wasnt behind any logical drives. This must be some problem with my sata drives right? I have two SATA drives in raid0 on a P4C800 motherboard. Here's my CPU-Z output, any ideas how I can get OSX to list the partition? Thanks in advance for any help guys! ---------------------- CPU-Z version 1.35 ---------------------- CPUID Output ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Number of CPUs 2 (1 Physical) CPU #1 APIC ID 0 Name Intel Pentium 4 Code name Northwood Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Family/Model/Stepping F29 Extended Family/Model F/2 Brand ID 9 Package mPGA-478 (2h) Core Stepping D1 Technology 0.13um Instructions Sets MMX, SSE, SSE2 Features Clock Speed 2998.6 MHz Clock multiplier x15.0 Front Side Bus Frequency 199.9 MHz Bus Speed 799.6 MHz Stock frequency 3000 MHz L1 Data Cache 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size L1 Trace Cache 12 Kuops, 8-way set associative L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size L2 Speed 2998.6 MHz (Full) L2 Location On Chip L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes L2 Bus Width 256 bits Chipset ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Northbridge Intel i875P rev. A2 Southbridge Intel 82801EB (ICH5) rev. 02 Graphic Interface AGP AGP Revision 3.0 AGP Transfer Rate 8x AGP SBA supported, enabled Memory Type DDR Memory Size 1024 MBytes Memory Frequency 199.9 MHz (1:1) CAS# 3.0 RAS# to CAS# 3 RAS# Precharge 3 Cycle Time (tRAS) 8 Performance Mode disabled Full output in the attatchment! cpuz.htm Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/23523-osx-installer-wont-recognize-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 Sometimes SATA is a problem, but I'm pretty sure that RAID is a no-go. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/23523-osx-installer-wont-recognize-partition/#findComment-156118 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeh Posted August 5, 2006 Author Share Posted August 5, 2006 But the RAID0 is handled before even getting into an OS, any OS will think its just one drive, so the raid shouldnt be a problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/23523-osx-installer-wont-recognize-partition/#findComment-156128 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1233666666 Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 Even so, SATA is usually a problem with OSx86 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/23523-osx-installer-wont-recognize-partition/#findComment-156130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 But the RAID0 is handled before even getting into an OS, any OS will think its just one drive, so the raid shouldnt be a problem. The OS has to recognize and interface with the RAID controller and there are no successes to my knowledge. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/23523-osx-installer-wont-recognize-partition/#findComment-156135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shaun Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 Even so, SATA is usually a problem with OSx86 Oh, no {censored}? Damnit. I just threw down the money on a SATA disk too! Now I can't even use it?! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/23523-osx-installer-wont-recognize-partition/#findComment-156179 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeh Posted August 5, 2006 Author Share Posted August 5, 2006 Any patches or anything availiable? Im not sure if this is the right subforum to post this :/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/23523-osx-installer-wont-recognize-partition/#findComment-156180 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrDakota Posted August 5, 2006 Share Posted August 5, 2006 So I was trying to install OSX ( Mac OS X 10.4.6 x86 Install DVD (JaS) ) last night, but I ran into a problem.. When I opened the drive utility in the installer, only my DVD drive was listed, the 15 gb partition i had formatted as FAT32 was not there, and yes it wasnt behind any logical drives. This must be some problem with my sata drives right? I have two SATA drives in raid0 on a P4C800 motherboard. Where have you created the FAT 32 partition, in the Raid of do you have a PATA disk ? If you put it on a PATA disk I suggest you either disable SATA in BIOS or disconnect your SATA drives then do the install. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/23523-osx-installer-wont-recognize-partition/#findComment-156222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneakeh Posted August 5, 2006 Author Share Posted August 5, 2006 Yeah the partition was made on my two 120 gb sata disks in raid0, not pata disks, or are those the same as sata? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/23523-osx-installer-wont-recognize-partition/#findComment-156397 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jester1o1 Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 remove one of the disks from the RAID and connect it to a non raid sata port. Sata without raid usually works on Intel motherboards. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/23523-osx-installer-wont-recognize-partition/#findComment-156635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrDakota Posted August 6, 2006 Share Posted August 6, 2006 Yeah the partition was made on my two 120 gb sata disks in raid0, not pata disks, or are those the same as sata? No, PATA is standard IDE drive. What Jester1o1 says is true as I could verify from the wiki. SATA (non RAID) works for your motherboard, but Promise SATA doesn't. If you want to keep your RAID for another OS you should put a new disk either is SATA (non RAID) or in IDE for OS X. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/23523-osx-installer-wont-recognize-partition/#findComment-156775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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