loiphin Posted August 29, 2006 Share Posted August 29, 2006 Hi Macgirl, You are running an nForce4 board aren't you? And you mention in your sig that you have got SATA working too? If thats the case, how did you do it ? I have an A8N-SLI Premium and it seems sometimes the SATA drives are recognised and other times not, when I boot the system. It does seem rather flaky, and am therefore rather reluctant to try to use the SATA drives. My system drive is on a std PATA drive. Thanks, loi Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26123-macgirl-did-you-get-nforce4-sata-working/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jape Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Huh? Send her a Private Message, maybe you'll have better luck EDIT: She says to have XP on SATA, no OS X. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26123-macgirl-did-you-get-nforce4-sata-working/#findComment-178950 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSX86tester Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 lollllllllllllllll xp on sata. LOL i wonder when was that ever an issue. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26123-macgirl-did-you-get-nforce4-sata-working/#findComment-178959 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jape Posted September 1, 2006 Share Posted September 1, 2006 Woops. Maybe loiphin is talking about that nasty nForce 4 bug that appears even on Windows sometimes. Sorry then. I think you have to update your drives' firmware to fix it. There are lots of info here --> http://forums.nvidia.com/ (But then why's the topic in OSX86 installation?) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26123-macgirl-did-you-get-nforce4-sata-working/#findComment-178962 Share on other sites More sharing options...
loiphin Posted September 4, 2006 Author Share Posted September 4, 2006 MacGirls mailbox was full, hence not being able to send a PM... I did mean OSX on SATA on nForce4... oh well no worries. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26123-macgirl-did-you-get-nforce4-sata-working/#findComment-181513 Share on other sites More sharing options...
VirTERM Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 SATA with nviadia4 works, but I would not recommed it for production. Good start, but some additional work is required. Use PATA for now. Wojtek Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26123-macgirl-did-you-get-nforce4-sata-working/#findComment-181625 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROXR Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 Os X is compatible with AHCI, but nvidia does not want pay license to intel. info: http://www.intel.com/technology/serialata/ahci.htm Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26123-macgirl-did-you-get-nforce4-sata-working/#findComment-181640 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMDZen Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 I saw the thread http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=25879 This is my computer: AMD Opteron 146 EVGA nForce4 SLI Motherboard EVGA 7800 GT VidCard SATA Raptor 74 GB SATA Raptor 150 GB (Windows on this) SATA Seagate 300 GB (Data Drive) I want to install Mac OSX on my 74 GB Raptor. It is completely empty and I formatted Fat32 so Mac OSX could see it. I boot up on the JaS 10.4.7 DVD from Demonoid, osx sees the drive, I format the drive and sometimes it will format for mac file system and then it can't mount - so it freezes. I restart and the drive will usually be mounted. I say usually because different things happen. I try to install and select the VIA SATA drivers but the install freezes usually 1/4 of the way through. Can I use that to somehow install OSX on my SATA? I have no IDE HD on this computer, only SATA. I am a complete n00b at doing this but I think if your driver works and I can get it loaded that I can get OSX installed on my computer. If you will please help me with this it would be much appreciated. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26123-macgirl-did-you-get-nforce4-sata-working/#findComment-182739 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 we can understand your urge to get osx working on your sata, amdzen, but why spam this on three or four threads? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26123-macgirl-did-you-get-nforce4-sata-working/#findComment-183021 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jape Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 Os X is compatible with AHCI, but nvidia does not want pay license to intel.I personally think the way nvidia makes it work is preferrable over AHCI. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26123-macgirl-did-you-get-nforce4-sata-working/#findComment-183029 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMDZen Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 we can understand your urge to get osx working on your sata, amdzen, but why spam this on three or four threads? My bad. Sorry Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/26123-macgirl-did-you-get-nforce4-sata-working/#findComment-184965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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