ham4ever Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 hello all I'm having slow hard drive reads. Suddenly, it stops for 10 seconds, keeping the hd activity led steady on. When this happens i cant open any program , till i hear disk click click then system back normal ,, my Hard disk is healthy , i checked SMART and is goood,,, performance is good in Ubuntu and Windows 7 i saw some fix for it but include edit the DSDT.AML but i dont have one and i tried to create one but looks hards to do and i have so much errors in it, is there any other ways My Mobo: asus m3a76-cm Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
PookyMacMan Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Check Activity Monitor (/Appications/Utilities) and see if there is anything hogging up your resources. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784044 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ham4ever Posted January 7, 2012 Author Share Posted January 7, 2012 thanks for fast replay , when the freeze comes, then i cant open the activity Monitor, and when i let it open then i try open any programs that effects hard disk to freeze then also the information in Activity Monitor freeze so is really hard to trace it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PookyMacMan Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Hm...have you tried reinstalling? Don't try to open anything while Activity Monitor is running. Select All Processes and see if there is anything using too much CPU/RAM. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784051 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ham4ever Posted January 7, 2012 Author Share Posted January 7, 2012 yes i did reinstall 2 times,, and i updated from 10.6.2 to 10.6.7 and 10.6.8 and all same problem freezing,, freeze when open applications like final cut , adobe after effects, iweb, ,,,, also when try access other partition in hard disk there is nothing using aLot RAM/CPU , my spece ; mobo : asus m3a76-cm AMD Athlon II x3 435 Ram 4 Gb DDR2 Disk seagate 500 Gb Cart Ati hd 4850 1Gb Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784055 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PookyMacMan Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 I'm not quite sure, then. I'll see what I can find. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784080 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ham4ever Posted January 7, 2012 Author Share Posted January 7, 2012 i did research in google and i found some people had same in asus Mobo and they had to modified DSDT and delete some lines of IRQs in some devices ,, i cant do that coz i dont have DSDT and i couldnt create one byself,, i got alot warning in it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784229 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PookyMacMan Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Did you extract it from OS X or Linux? If you're having problems with OS X, I can give you instructions on DSDT extraction in Linux (Ubuntu). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ham4ever Posted January 7, 2012 Author Share Posted January 7, 2012 yes i used OS X for extract DSDT ,, yes plz give me instructions for UBUNTU i can use live cd for it , or i need to install ubuntu ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784269 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ham4ever Posted January 7, 2012 Author Share Posted January 7, 2012 ok i installed Ubuntu 11.10 and i wait for ur instructions mate xD thanks mate ,, i just extract it from ubuntu,, but can be edit in ubuntu ? or i need to do in OS X ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784278 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PookyMacMan Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 Okay, so now you need to get to the Terminal. If your graphics card doesn't have drivers (it's running in Classic mode) than go to the Applications menu in the top-right corner, choose Accessories > Terminal. If Unity is loaded, go to the Ubuntu icon at the top right and search for Terminal. Now type: the following commands: cd ~/ sudo cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT > dsdt.aml Bingo! You now have the DSDT in your home folder; now you can drag it onto a flash drive and upload it. If you want to be a dear, you can also decompile it by entering the following commands: sudo apt-get install iasl iasl -d ~/dsdt.aml Then drag dsdt.dsl onto your flash drive. You can edit it in either. It doesn't really matter. I would post this issue with your DSDT up in the DSDT forum and see if any DSDT gurus know what to do (I'm a noob to DSDT; I only know how to fix the RTClock, which is totally unrelated to your issue ). 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ham4ever Posted January 7, 2012 Author Share Posted January 7, 2012 thank u so much for ur help and ur time this is dsdt.dsl and dsdt.aml from Ubuntu dsdt.aml http://www.mediafire...298m3mtj8ci650u dsdt.asl http://www.mediafire...3ly9l3lebi9eywq i hope someone can fix errors and warnings in this dsdt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784299 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PookyMacMan Posted January 7, 2012 Share Posted January 7, 2012 I'll take a look at it and see what I can do. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784333 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ham4ever Posted January 7, 2012 Author Share Posted January 7, 2012 thank u so much if u can make it free errors and warnings and i can do rest of IRQs Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784347 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ham4ever Posted January 7, 2012 Author Share Posted January 7, 2012 this is where i saw about the IRQ http://www.projectosx.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=564 thank u for ur help Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784353 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PookyMacMan Posted January 8, 2012 Share Posted January 8, 2012 I'm so sorry - I accidentally gave you the DSDT for my MacBook!!! Don't use it; I will patch the real DSDT. I think the DSDT Patcher is malfunctioning...I'll do what I can. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ham4ever Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 haha yes i saw that is different than mine i didnt used it i'll wait for ur patched DSDT Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ham4ever Posted January 8, 2012 Author Share Posted January 8, 2012 now i've got 0 errors , 15 warnings , 0 Remarks , 75 Optimizations,, the rest of warnings i couldnt do i searched but nothing can help here is dsdt.aml http://www.mediafire...c18ejfh398n0u9j if u can check it and help me in those left errors thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784483 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PookyMacMan Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 I wouldn't worry about warnings. I'll add the patches for the SATA. However, I'll have to send you dsdt.dsl as for some unknown reason DSDT Patcher will only compile the DSDT for the machine you're operating on. I'll be back in a little. It seems that the DSDT Patcher fixed all the issues listed in the SATA fix post. I only added a group of lines in the TMR device. Compile it and see if it works. dsdt.dsl.zip Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784501 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Tip: If you can't boot after placing the patched DSDT.aml in /Extra, you can type DSDT=none at the bootprompt to skip loading DSDT.aml. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784518 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ham4ever Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 one last question plz how can i make hackintosh load DSDT.aml ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784527 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 You don't have to do anything, just place DSDT.aml in /Extra, Chameleon loads it automatically. The "Extra" folder is located either at the root of your system drive or at the root of the partition where Chameleon is installed. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784530 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ham4ever Posted January 9, 2012 Author Share Posted January 9, 2012 thank u my friend i did it in extra and i have com.apple.boot.plist and i did flag <key>DSDT</key> <string>/dsdt.aml</string> in boot i got some Panic and alot numbers and i only can understand this : Kernel extensions in backtrace ( with dependencies) com.apple.driver.appleps2Controller com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(1.3.0) com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily(2.6) and then restart again couple times then works with no keyboard and now i use flag DSDT=none Update : now boot good when i used GraphicsEnabler=Yes i'll test if hard disk gonna freeze or not P,S: how i know if DSDT is loaded ?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784613 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PookyMacMan Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Don't know how to tell if DSDT is loaded; but if it's dsdt.aml inside the Extra folder, and you didn't type DSDT=none, it should be loaded. If you still get panics, I may need to remove those lines I added in your DSDT. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784646 Share on other sites More sharing options...
LatinMcG Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 apple ps2 controler has issues. likely irq issue or u need a newer voodoops2 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/274342-slow-hard-disk/#findComment-1784653 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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