Slavens Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 What is the technical hurdle? I'm a hardware junkie and can tweak the {censored} out of hardware/software for speed and stability, but I'm not familiar with the intricacies of *nix drivers and kernels and such. So here is a short list of my dumb questions. Most have probably already been answered, but can we collect the answers here just for clarification on the issue? 1. Is it just a fix hasn't been completed, or does OSX/Darwin not support nForce/SATA and therefore it can't BE fixed? 2. If there is a problem with OSX/Darwin that can't be fixed inside the boundaries of OSX/Darwin, can we incorporate drivers from BSD or another distro? 3. Disk Utility recognizes USB flashdrives when I plug them in, has anyone thought to (or successfully completed an) install to a USB HDD or flash-drive? My new HP dv6113us is an nforce based laptop, and the install runs smoothly up until I have to pick an install location. Equipped with a SATA drive, the OS (of course) doesn't see the hard drive so I can 't proceed. USB works, but not the onboard PS2 keyboard and touchpad. I'm pretty sure that I've seen fixes for that though, and I'll take care of that when I get there. I'm jacked to get this installed, as are a bunch of other people in the same situation. Is there anything that we can do to assist an effort in this direction? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35670-hp-pavilion-dv6000z-nforce-based-notebook-w-sata/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 12, 2006 Share Posted December 12, 2006 Apple only releases drivers for hardware they produce or endorse. There are no real Macs with nForce SATA. Neither Apple nor Nvidia is going to issue a driver for a configuration that theoretically doesn't exist. OSX only comes with a SATA driver for Intel and VIA. Most hacks have been to the VIA driver, but even when they work, they produce data corruption to big files. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35670-hp-pavilion-dv6000z-nforce-based-notebook-w-sata/#findComment-253745 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slavens Posted December 13, 2006 Author Share Posted December 13, 2006 OK, a bit of research through apple and I found the following list at nVidia. Can drivers from any of the following distros be modified to work? SLES 9 SP3 (2.6.5-7.244) SLES 9 SP2 (2.6.5-7.191) SLES 9 SP1 (2.6.5-7.139) RHEL4 UP1 (2.6.9-11) Fedora Core 4 (2.6.11-1) RHEL 3 UP4 (2.4.21-27) RHEL3 UP5 (2.4.21-32) RHEL3 UP7 (2.4.21-40) RHEL 4 UP3 (2.6.9-34) Fedora Core 5 (2.6.15-1) RHEL 4 UP2 (2.6.9-22) RHEL 3 UP6 (2.4.21-37) SuSE 10 (2.6.13-15) link to the page (including downloads) http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.11.html I'm going to keep searching for info. Is there someone who would have to skill to port a driver from a different distro? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35670-hp-pavilion-dv6000z-nforce-based-notebook-w-sata/#findComment-253901 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 (edited) Been tried many times and you see the results. Here is the thread for the latest attempt that looked promising but fizzled out with data corruption again. http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=31091 Edited December 13, 2006 by Rammjet Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35670-hp-pavilion-dv6000z-nforce-based-notebook-w-sata/#findComment-253903 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slavens Posted December 17, 2006 Author Share Posted December 17, 2006 (edited) OK, I know that Darwin is based on BSD, as is FreeBSD. Is there a correlation between the two as far as drivers go? There is record of success here of SATA on the Nforce 4 platform under FreeBSD. Are the drivers close enough to be ported in stead of trying to hack an existing Darwin driver? If nothing else, could we pull accurate info on memory location, timings and such from the FreeBSD drivers? Edited December 17, 2006 by Slavens Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35670-hp-pavilion-dv6000z-nforce-based-notebook-w-sata/#findComment-257135 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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