miggo3 Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 I got 2 hard drives. PATA and SATA. OK. I installed OSX to my PATA-drive. Everything works...My SATA-drive was in the desktop. Then I rebooted, and i logged in to osx. It says AppleVIAATA.kext error, and my SATA-drive was disappeared...What's wrong. What can I do? (Sorry for my English...) (SATA-support is included in my install-DVD) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30770-sata-drive-disappeared-help-please/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Your AppleVIAATA.kext has a permissions error. Once you fix it, things should go back to working. Go into Terminal (in Utilities folder) and type: cd /System/Library/Extensions sudo find AppleVIAATA.kext -type d -exec /bin/chmod 0755 {} \; sudo find AppleVIAATA.kext -type f -exec /bin/chmod 0644 {} \; cd /System/Library rm -rf Extensions.mkext rm -rf Extensions.kextcache reboot Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30770-sata-drive-disappeared-help-please/#findComment-213304 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miggo3 Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 In what type should I format the SATA-drive now? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30770-sata-drive-disappeared-help-please/#findComment-213328 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Fat32 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30770-sata-drive-disappeared-help-please/#findComment-213334 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miggo3 Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 How? In MacOSX?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30770-sata-drive-disappeared-help-please/#findComment-213339 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 In mac if you can see the disk or partition, then format journaled Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30770-sata-drive-disappeared-help-please/#findComment-213346 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miggo3 Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 No, i can't. What is the easiest way to format to FAT32. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30770-sata-drive-disappeared-help-please/#findComment-213349 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 No, i can't. What is the easiest way to format to FAT32. If you have no OS to use then you will need a boot cd. I would recommend UltimateBootDisk Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30770-sata-drive-disappeared-help-please/#findComment-213356 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miggo3 Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 =) THANKS!! =) It works! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30770-sata-drive-disappeared-help-please/#findComment-213359 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 =) THANKS!! =) It works! What works? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30770-sata-drive-disappeared-help-please/#findComment-213360 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miggo3 Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 Ok. Now there is another problem. Both HDs are in the desktop now, but when i log in everything freezes. only mouse works. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30770-sata-drive-disappeared-help-please/#findComment-213361 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miggo3 Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 Can somebody help, please? I don't get error anymore (after inserting rammejet's code) but after second boot, SATA-drive has disappeared from the desktop...What is wrong??? =S Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30770-sata-drive-disappeared-help-please/#findComment-213400 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 What chipsets do you have? Is the SATA drive a Maxtor? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30770-sata-drive-disappeared-help-please/#findComment-213403 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miggo3 Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 i got nforce4. and no it is Western Digital. I know that nforce could be problem, but why then H-D sometimes appears to the desktop. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30770-sata-drive-disappeared-help-please/#findComment-213409 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gio Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 I had the same problem and then edited the AppleVIAATA.kext info.plist file following some directions on this fourm and then my partition would not boot correctly anymore unless i booted with -x and -v. So don't try editing the kext beacuse according to the topic it boots one in three times correctly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30770-sata-drive-disappeared-help-please/#findComment-213416 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 NForce4 is your problem, stick with ATA drives After you said it was there and then reported right back that it was gone, I figured it was nforce4 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30770-sata-drive-disappeared-help-please/#findComment-213454 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gio Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 Well I have nForce4 working now on myz 10.4.6 but any other one i update to or install doesn't have support for it. I am going to experiment with taking the kext file from 10.4.6 and updating and using it in the updated installation so my sata will work because vista rc1 is on sata and that is my 2nd main OS Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30770-sata-drive-disappeared-help-please/#findComment-213467 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miggo3 Posted October 20, 2006 Author Share Posted October 20, 2006 I think it's weird, that when i log in to OSX, there is no SATA-drive in the desktop, but when i go to Disk Utility (it crashes and i ''force exit'' it) then my SATA-drive appears to desktop... I think we can find solution for this... And, Gio, I'm using Jas 10.4.6. What do you think, should I switch to Myz so I can get nforce sata working? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30770-sata-drive-disappeared-help-please/#findComment-213493 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gio Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 If you want SATA support I would recommend it just search PB for myz 10.4.6 and you will find it. I tried updating though and SATA did not work after updating so I have to saty with 10.4.6. But yea I guess you could go for it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30770-sata-drive-disappeared-help-please/#findComment-213498 Share on other sites More sharing options...
miggo3 Posted October 21, 2006 Author Share Posted October 21, 2006 Gio, is the SATA-drive mounted to your dektop..? I have now Myz DVD. What configuration you have done? (and, what addons you selected in installer?) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30770-sata-drive-disappeared-help-please/#findComment-213912 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelvin KC Chan Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 Wait, wait, wait...may be u must check the cable of SATA. I find that the SATA cable is not firm enough as IDE. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/30770-sata-drive-disappeared-help-please/#findComment-214256 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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