RPepper Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 Hi i've been working on this all day and for a couple days last week. I had a previous post here http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1577406 on my previous setup that did not work. I want to have two raid controlled drives for windows 7 and another drive for osx and be able to view my windows drive in osx. So here's the problem I used to use an on board RAID that wasn't osx supported. I bought a Sil 3132 raid controller and installed windows to the drives it controls. Now I disconnected the RAID controller and when I boot from myHack and put in the snow leopard cd I get a EBIOS sectors 0x09 error. Now previously when I had my other on board RAID setup and tried to install I got the same error. When I disconnected the drives and switched to ACHI it worked and it installed fine. But for some reason now (when everything is basically the same as when it worked) I get that error again. The only thing I have done is install windows to the drive I am installing osx to and put in my RAID controller set it up and installed windows (however when I try to install osx I have it disconeected). Do you think somehow when I installed the RAID controller it is linked to my BIOS? I have all the correct BIOS settings as I had when it worked. I have a p5k deluxe motherboard 2x500gb connected to RAID0 sil 3132 controller and a 1tb drive that i plan to install osx onto. I have already bought this drive and card in hopes of this working getting pretty frustrated at this point. Any help at all would be great thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RPepper Posted November 12, 2010 Author Share Posted November 12, 2010 *UPDATE* Just for anyone that is having a similar problem. I finally figured it out. It had nothing to do with the new RAID controller. For some reason when I formatted my new drive (the one osx86 is to be installed on) to NTFS so i could back up some windows files osx installer would not start. I attached the drive to another computer and deleted everything and did not format. Put it into my osx86 box walla snow leopard installer opens fine with no more EBIOS error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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