denial_of_guilt Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 hi, i have a dell dimension 9150, mobo is a Dell 945P chipset , with a Pentium D940. I have a 250 giga seagate barracuda SATA hd. To make the system boot i had to change something in the bios, under the drive menu: I choose SATA-PATA Combination. The system works , but imho the hd is somehow slow, sometimes the system freeze while the hd il working. Sometimes i'm unable to open disk utility. I have tested many applications, everything works quite well except for Aperture and Final Cut. They both crash at opening. I have already reinstalled mac os twice. Am i missing something to make my sata hd and my pc work properly? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/29945-sata-pata-combination/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
wondergod Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 what version of macos are you using? did you install the sse3 option? most people with a 945 chipset have sata working fine... what does your console log show when these apps crash? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/29945-sata-pata-combination/#findComment-207108 Share on other sites More sharing options...
esc Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 With my 945G system I told the bios to treat SATA as IDE. Now in the boot menu the sata drive shows up as just another IDE hard drive and is not identified as SATA or PATA. I wonder if the combination setting is for RAID configuration? BTW this thread says the usual configuration is for Combination Sata/Pata: -http://www.driverheaven.net/archive/index.php/t-102090.html Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/29945-sata-pata-combination/#findComment-207206 Share on other sites More sharing options...
denial_of_guilt Posted October 11, 2006 Author Share Posted October 11, 2006 I'm with 10.4.8 with intel sse3 patches. If i run disk utility- verify disk i get this kind of error: Disk Utility stopped verifying “OS X” because the following error was encountered: The underlying task reported failure on exit. and this is the log: ********** Disk Utility started. Verifying volume “OS X” Checking HFS Plus volume. Checking Extents Overflow file. Checking Catalog file. Illegal name Checking multi-linked files. Checking Catalog hierarchy. %) Checking Extended Attributes file. Checking volume bitmap. Checking volume information. The volume OS X needs to be repaired. Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit Disk Utility stopped verifying “OS X” because the following error was encountered: The underlying task reported failure on exit 1 HFS volume checked Volume needs repair Volume needs repair, but the button "Repair disk" is not active! should i try with fsck? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/29945-sata-pata-combination/#findComment-207251 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 You can't repair the disk if you are booted from it. You can try fsck from single user mode or boot your install DVD and run Disk Utility from there. But if fsck and Disk Utility can't repair it, you are likely to be reinstalling. The best OSX repair utility, DiskWarrior, is not yet Intel OSX compatible. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/29945-sata-pata-combination/#findComment-207259 Share on other sites More sharing options...
denial_of_guilt Posted October 11, 2006 Author Share Posted October 11, 2006 i run fsck from single user mode , then rebooted and run verify disk again: Disk Utility started. Verifying volume “OS X” Checking HFS Plus volume. Checking Extents Overflow file. Checking Catalog file. Checking multi-linked files. Checking Catalog hierarchy. %) Checking Extended Attributes file. Checking volume bitmap. Checking volume information. The volume OS X appears to be OK. Mounting Disk 1 HFS volume checked Volume passed verification Are these kind of disk errors common or are them caused by my hardware configuration? Should i change hd type? anyway now everything seems ok Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/29945-sata-pata-combination/#findComment-207262 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 Crashes and power interruptions can result in corruptions during writing to disk. You should run fsck and/or Disk Utility on a regular basis to repair problems before they become big problems and unrepairable. Windows does CHKDSK - this is a lot like that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/29945-sata-pata-combination/#findComment-207265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted October 11, 2006 Share Posted October 11, 2006 Did you try switching off the option “Put the hard disks to sleep when possible“ under the energy saver control panel in the system preferences? Maybe it will be helpful if your problems occur after the computer remains idle for a while. I'm running my hacintosh with a combination of a SATA and a PATA HD's with no problems. I think Mac OS overrides some of the bios settings of the PC motherboards and I can say that your solution is most likely to be inside Mac OS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/29945-sata-pata-combination/#findComment-207387 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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