iPho Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 (edited) Hi. My Hackintosh with Mountain Lion 10.8.1 cannot see my esata external disk. Can you give me a working driver in order to make ML see my drive? If I connected it via, USB ML regularly see it, but e-sata is a lot faster. There are my PC information. http://imageshack.us...56164alle1.png/ It's a preassebled DELL XPS 8000. I'm not in ACHI mode in my hackintosh since I haven't such option in my bios. I have installed mountain lion with the atainjector.kext file. Thank you very much! Edited October 8, 2012 by eep357 Merged with duplicate created 10/6-removed "Help Me!" from title Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertX Posted September 4, 2012 Share Posted September 4, 2012 i use an e-sata drive as my mac drive...i believe i had to go AHCI mode to have it work... not sure of any other methods... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1850361 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPho Posted September 4, 2012 Author Share Posted September 4, 2012 Unfortunatly I'm not be' able to Go AHCI. Any suggest? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1850484 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lumbermatt38 Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Unfortunatly I'm not be' able to Go AHCI. Any suggest? This is surprising. Maybe the BIOS option isn't explicitly named AHCI. You can find it sometimes under « SATA IDE Emulation », « SATA Legacy mode » or this kind of denomination. AHCI is the standard (native) way to access to SATA devices (as far as I know) and some BIOSes offer an « IDE Mode » which consists in the emulation of an IDE controller so older Operating Systems (which have not the AHCI compatibility buit-in) can access to SATA devices. Maybe, as far as you’re using a laptop which was provided with a recent OS, the IDE emulation option was dropped because you might not have to use it (often laptop BIOSes are stripped down to a minimum). So you might be in AHCI Mode de facto… Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1850533 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPho Posted September 5, 2012 Author Share Posted September 5, 2012 Unfortunatly there is only ATA and RAID mode. It's a desktop preassembled Dell computer. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1850626 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 On Dell, RAID mode means AHCI. In RAID mode, setting up and actual RAID is optional, but this will will enable AHCI, so......That's what you need to select, if using windows too and already installed in IDE mode, it's not tons of fun to get it to play nice but it can be done without a reinstall Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1850629 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPho Posted September 5, 2012 Author Share Posted September 5, 2012 Hi, thank you for the answer. Unfortunatly if I set my PC on raid mode the hackintosh doesn't start, is says to me "still wait for root device". How can I do? Do I have to remove the ATAPORTINJECTOR.kext? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1850679 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted September 6, 2012 Share Posted September 6, 2012 Swap for AHCIportinjector.kext Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1850730 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPho Posted September 7, 2012 Author Share Posted September 7, 2012 Thank you for the answer. Where can I download that kext? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1850997 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertX Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 ...here's what I use...AHCIInjector.kext.zip ...install using your favorite tool(i use kext wizard) ...reboot (-v -f ) for boot options... :wink2: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1851030 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPho Posted September 9, 2012 Author Share Posted September 9, 2012 It said "still waiting for root device" with that file + RAID MODE. I had to boot with my pendrive with the ML installation, open the terminal and to reswap ACHI for ataportinjector and reset to ATA mode in order to make my Hackintosh working. I have only one internal hard disk + one esata external HD. What can I do in order to correctly boot in RAID MODE? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1851375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 It just occurred to me your eSATA maybe using different controller, jmicron maybe? Find out for sure what chipset the eSATA use first. And earlier when you mentioned only ATA or RAID mode, does it say ATA or IDE and does you board have a PATA ribbon style connector on it? If you still have legacy PATA on your mobo, it may have been setting for that and not for your SATA Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1851614 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPho Posted September 11, 2012 Author Share Posted September 11, 2012 Thank you very much for the answer. How can I know what chipset the eSata use? Where can I get this information? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1852048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPho Posted September 13, 2012 Author Share Posted September 13, 2012 No one can help me? This are my hw informations http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/29/schermata082456164alle1.png/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1852591 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted September 13, 2012 Share Posted September 13, 2012 How many internal SATA ports does your motherboard have? If you count six, then whatever drives the eSATA port is not on that screenshot. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1852623 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPho Posted October 6, 2012 Author Share Posted October 6, 2012 (edited) Hi. My Hackintosh with Mountain Lion 10.8.1 cannot see my esata external disk. Can you give me a working driver in order to make ML see my drive? If I connected it via, USB ML regularly see it, but e-sata is a lot faster. There are my PC information. http://imageshack.us...56164alle1.png/ It's a preassebled DELL XPS 8000. I'm not in ACHI mode in my hackintosh since I haven't such option in my bios. I have installed mountain lion with the atainjector.kext file. Thank you very much! Edited October 8, 2012 by eep357 Merged topic with your previous one on same subject Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1858752 Share on other sites More sharing options...
p.H Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 It seems AHCI is a must if you want to use an Esata drive Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1858774 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPho Posted October 7, 2012 Author Share Posted October 7, 2012 Is AHCI different from RAID mode? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1858841 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertX Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 "Many SATA controllers offer selectable modes of operation: legacy Parallel ATA emulation, standard AHCI mode, or vendor-specific RAID (which generally enables AHCI in order to take advantage of its capabilities). Intel recommends choosing RAID mode on their motherboards (which also enables AHCI)" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1859053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPho Posted October 20, 2012 Author Share Posted October 20, 2012 OK the problem is that when I boot my computer in raid mode ML says "stil waiting for root device" and doesn't start Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1861882 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertX Posted October 20, 2012 Share Posted October 20, 2012 have u installed the AHCIInjector.kext from post #10? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1861902 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPho Posted October 21, 2012 Author Share Posted October 21, 2012 Yes, but I have the same problem. With RAID mode it says STILL WAITING FOR ROOT DEVICE Help me please! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1862144 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertX Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 ...hmmm, my final thought would be to try again in ATA mode( but leave the AHCIInjector.kext installed)...maybe you are running in some modded AHCI mode by default Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1862198 Share on other sites More sharing options...
iPho Posted October 22, 2012 Author Share Posted October 22, 2012 Hi Robert, Unfortunatly the OS still doesn't read my external esata drive and I think that it is a little bit slower for about 5 seconds after the dock appear. How can I make boot with RAID mode working? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1862266 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eep357 Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 You can give this a try, I made an updated and improved injector, adding some additional devices not included in any other's I've seen, fixed all controller names to match PCI ID database and some chipset naming errors I've seen in other versions. Also included IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector in it, for all drives to show internal and DVD keyboard eject/DVD.app fix. RAID ID's are also included for all the AHCI/RAID switchable controllers I could find. remove other AHCI or BlockStorage injectors and install to S/L/E AHCI_Extended_Injector.kext.zip 3 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282449-how-can-i-read-my-esata-external-drive/#findComment-1862487 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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