bigdbag Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Do AMD 64 machines with an nForce 4 chipset need ATA hard drives to install OS X 10.4.x? So far, I've tried everything, from changing options in BIOS and types of formatting my SATA drive, from NTFS to FAT32, to unallocated and unformatted. No matter what I do, Disk Utility in OS X does not see either of my 2 SATA drives, a 250GB Seagate, and a 160GB Maxtor. HELP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrmgic Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 Do AMD 64 machines with an nForce 4 chipset need ATA hard drives to install OS X 10.4.x? So far, I've tried everything, from changing options in BIOS and types of formatting my SATA drive, from NTFS to FAT32, to unallocated and unformatted. No matter what I do, Disk Utility in OS X does not see either of my 2 SATA drives, a 250GB Seagate, and a 160GB Maxtor. HELP!!! If I use the 10.4.6 Myzar dvd, my SATA drives show up in Disk Utility and get mounted in finder on my Nforce 4 board, maybe try that release and see if you have any success? I didn't install on them because that is where my windows install lives, but I am confident that I could have if I hadn't wanted to preserve my windows data Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 to use nforce4 sata drives you need the viaata kext but most of times it leads to data corruptions, use it at your own risk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macsga Posted September 12, 2006 Share Posted September 12, 2006 I personally failed to install OSX on a SATA drive and viaata kext, one out of three boot-ups fails to load properly and gives an error. I'd strongly advise to use a PATA drive for OSx86 installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdbag Posted September 13, 2006 Author Share Posted September 13, 2006 Thanks for the reply. Do you think the JaS 10.4.7 may work instead of the Myzar version? I'm willing to give it a shot if anyone knows for sure JaS's also works perhaps 1/3 times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lr_gomes Posted September 13, 2006 Share Posted September 13, 2006 JaZ 10.4.7 works fine for me....with asus a8n-e, chipset nvidia 4 and sata hd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jape Posted September 14, 2006 Share Posted September 14, 2006 Those of you who said that "works OK"..... Do you have OS X installed to SATA ? Do you use the SATA disk a lot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemesish3d Posted September 20, 2006 Share Posted September 20, 2006 JaZ 10.4.7 works fine for me....with asus a8n-e, chipset nvidia 4 and sata hd. Just using a normal installation? Or installing it using VMWare and all that stuff? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
me@home Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Jas 10.4.7 = JAZ ? I use the 10.4.7 and here I saw on my Asus NF4 SLi Mobo the 2 Sata Drives. But I have a Raid 0 on them and the installer only shows me 2 seperate drives (ie like various Linux). I did install on old Pata HD, which I wanted to sell but now it's fine for OSX...just use the bios to boot Raid or Pata - so OSX is fine booting in 20sec. If you use Raid I'd recommend buying a cheap 80-160GB HD Pata for "playing" with OSX X86. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gixxer_drew Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 Is there a 3rd party sold SATA controller that us nForce 4 guys can plug in that is known working? I have removed windows now and have my 10k rpm drives rendered useless until I find a solution to this. When the check the compatibility it seems they are all motherboard integrated chipsets... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gixxer_drew Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 Anyone? Any way to make SATA work short of buying a new motherboard?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dark4181 Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 supply JaS with your sata controller id string. i'm told he's working on a patch. more data can't hurt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jape Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 i'm told he's working on a patch What? When? Where? Who? How? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 Here's the "where": http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=197588 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 supply JaS with your sata controller id string. i'm told he's working on a patch. more data can't hurt He only offered to help with Uli SATA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jape Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 Yep, just ULI, not nForce4... And all ULI SATA-II chipsets are AHCI compatible (AFAIK) so that's not really an issue (unless there is some hidden darwin-controller incompatibilty like the one we're seeing on nForce 4). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gixxer_drew Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 Is that a chipset that you can buy an an third party SATA card? Or a motherboard integrated only? I am willing to buy any add on card that would make this work. I just really want to avoid a new motherboard... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 Is that a chipset that you can buy an an third party SATA card? Or a motherboard integrated only? It is integrated. But it doesn't currently work, so it doesn't matter that it's not a 3rd party card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gixxer_drew Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 I caught that but I was just hoping for down the road if someone got it working.... I really appreciate any help and replies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gixxer_drew Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 I gave up... using IDE -> SATA adapters and buying another IDE controller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomtefar Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 gixxer_drew: see this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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