shanepardue Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 I'm not able to see my sata hard drive in the disk utility of the osx install program. I've seen many people saying they have the same problem, but there doesn't seem to be any fix. Just seeing if anyone could help me get this installation working. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 OSX only has drivers for VIA and Intel SATA controller chips. The VIA driver can be hacked to work with nForce3 SATA chips and someone is working on nForce4 SATA drivers. If your SATA controller chip on your motherboard isn't supported, then you need to add a PATA drive for OSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jthunder Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 OSX only has drivers for VIA and Intel SATA controller chips. The VIA driver can be hacked to work with nForce3 SATA chips and someone is working on nForce4 SATA drivers. If your SATA controller chip on your motherboard isn't supported, then you need to add a PATA drive for OSX. The work being done on the nForce4 Sata drivers... who is working on this and where is the work being done? In this forum? Can you post a link to the discussion. Thanks JT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 1, 2006 Share Posted December 1, 2006 The work being done on the nForce4 Sata drivers... who is working on this and where is the work being done? In this forum? Can you post a link to the discussion. Look at the SATA section on this page: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=34086 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullit Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 OSX only has drivers for VIA and Intel SATA controller chips. The VIA driver can be hacked to work with nForce3 SATA chips and someone is working on nForce4 SATA drivers. If your SATA controller chip on your motherboard isn't supported, then you need to add a PATA drive for OSX. True. 10.4.1 supports that and I'm using a VIA chipset on that install. But I'm experiencing the lack of SATA support when trying to install a JaS 10.4.6 on the same box. Any ideas anyone? I've done some research but after a few tries I could only several threads like this one no real answer. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 3, 2006 Share Posted December 3, 2006 If you have Windows installed, you could use VMWare to install OSX to the hard drive from the DVD. Then should be able to boot the installation. Might have to add vendor/device id to the installed VIA kext prior to boot. Can use VMWare to access the kext for edit. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=11314 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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