JMB363

[winmacnix10]

i know this was discussed before and ive read nearly everything i can find. i also have tried [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] 3.5 to install the kext provided in the app but still nothing. i have a PCI-E 1x card (2sata+1ide) with this chip on there. i cant get this card to be recognized under PCI Cards or Serial-ATA under Computer info. the card is recognized under windows and works perfectly. the only info i can find on the card itself is the following....:

 

JMB363

0732 LGAZ0 B

223800030

 

is there something im doing wrong? ive managed to get everything installed and working flawlessly with the exception of this one card. i just need access to this drive when under mac, hate having to switch between OS's -.- .

[mulcyber]

I think this should work according to the next link. In [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] I've seen some JMicron kexts. Did you install a JMicron kext? They are suppose to install like the other kexts.

 

http://www.tonymacx86.com/viewtopic.php?f=...244&start=0

Installing Snow Leopard on JMB363 SATA ports

 

"Regarding the JMicron36x and installation, I just checked with MacMan and you should be good to go with install on hard drive connected to GSATA. I've included JMicron36xATA and JMIcron36xeSATA inside, so it should work. Haven't tested it myself though."

 

http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/03/jmi...ta-support.html

 

JMicron36xeSATA.kext and JMicron36xSATA.kext.

"So what’s the difference other than the name display? When using JMicron36xSATA.kext all drives connected to the JMicron controllers will be displayed on the desktop as internal disks, just like the Intel connected drives. But if you use the JMicron36xeSATA.kext, then they show up on the desktop as external (orange) disks and can be hot swapped."

 

Reply: "This is the steps I did to install everything and get to the point where I am:

booted with newest [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url](ATI) cd, using -x option

installed os x 10.6 on dedicated SATA hd (on JMicron controller, yes it works flawlessly!) upgraded with combo update 10.6.3"

[winmacnix10]

thats what i thought so too... i read it over many times as well as reinstalled it 3times or so, and i saw the kexts was listed under [url="http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/279450-why-insanelymac-does-not-support-tonymacx86/"]#####[/url] 3.1 but for some reason it still doesnt show up at all under the info, the card works fine since i have a triple boot setup (Win7x64/Ubuntux64/SnowLeopardx64) and its recognized on both win and ubuntu as well as the one drive that is currently connected to it.... could it be the format of the drive (was formatted under win7 NTFS quick format) ? this card IS NOT used as the device where the main HDD with the OS's are installed on, its just used as an extra for my additional sata drives.

[mulcyber]

could it be the format of the drive (was formatted under win7 NTFS quick format) ? this card IS NOT used as the device where the main HDD with the OS's are installed on, its just used as an extra for my additional sata drives.

 

The drive should appear even as Untitled, if you have Finder Preferences -> Devices check-marked. I will include a picture to show you what I mean. From the Terminal, diskutil list <enter> should show all the drives and partitions. If it is not there, then I guess your kext isn't working. Do you have it in /Extra/Extensions? Another picture.

I think you should have a JMicron36xSATA.kext in /E/E. Maybe another JM*.kext. That's all I can think of.

[winmacnix10]

here are the pictures.... the drive is listed in the OS choice/drive listing on Chameleon so its definitely something under MAC that isnt allowing me to view the drive or pci card device.

[mulcyber]

here are the pictures.... the drive is listed in the OS choice/drive listing on Chameleon so its definitely something under MAC that isnt allowing me to view the drive or pci card device.

 

I wrote before, "Do you have it in /Extra/Extensions? Another picture.

I think you should have a JMicron36xSATA.kext in /E/E."

 

The picture showed you that JMicron36xSATA.kext was in /Extra/Extensions.

You had a lot of kexts listed in your picture. It made me think that

you had taken a picture of /System/Library/Extensions and not E/E.

 

I'm not sure how much difference that makes... /E/E is read first

and takes precedence over /S/L/E. (potential kext conflict ??)

 

The good news is that you can see the drive in Chameleon. That

makes me think that if you issue the command from the terminal,

diskutil list <enter> , that your /dev = drive will show up in the results.

All the drives with their partitions should be reported.

 

You can tell your drive, which will be show as a device, /dev , by its

size. Or by process of elimination.

 

Suppose you were in the root directory, from the terminal. You may

need admin authority, so start with sudo -s and provide your password.

From the terminal, the command " ls " will show you folders below /

You should see /Extra there for instance.

Type the command, mkdir mntSata (or any descriptive name, mntWin) <enter>.

Then type mount /dev/xxx (where xxx is your drive in question

which was reported to you with the diskutil list command).

The full command is (sudo) mount /dev/xxx(x) /mntSata <enter>

 

This should mount the filesystem of your drive onto your system so

that you can see what's in it. I've had to use the command, mount -t

and then the name of the dev filesystem, such as vfat (fat32) in the past.

Another example: mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sd? /path_to/mount_point

Google it if you need more explanation. Try it first just using the mount

command with no switches. mount /dev/xxx /mntSata <enter>

 

So next type the command, cd mntSata <enter>

Then type ls -la <enter> to see the contents of the now mounted NTFS drive.

 

This will work, and your problem will be reduced to finding an

automatic way to mount that /dev = drive , or it will not work,

and maybe the error message returned will be helpful.

My idea is that your drive might be available, but not mounted.

The drives you see on your Desktop have all been mounted.

I think recent OS X comes with the ntfs-3g driver already installed.

[winmacnix10]

finally got time to work at this with no success at all.. does MAC limit the amount of HDD's it can read/have connected to it ? that is the only thing i can think of since i have tried putting the kext in /e/e and wiped them out from the /s/l/e path and vice versa. if thats not the case, do you guys recommend a sata pci card that will definitely work on osx without any issues?