nate_nightroad Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 ok,i tried installing using a new DVD rom and this time it work! it continue to installing fine...after installation, i reboot and in the splash screen where there is an apple in the middle and a round thing going around, then after awhile, there is a message asking me to restart the computer and i did...after restarting, the same thing happen!i restart the computer for many times already and the same message appear! any advice?? during installation, i selected X11 to install and the NvidiaNV40...may i know wat is X11 and the NvidiaNV40??could tis be the cause of the restart message? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-354682 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjapig Posted April 27, 2007 Share Posted April 27, 2007 IT WONT WORK. YOUR Chipset is NOT SUPPORTED YET. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-354878 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate_nightroad Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 i tot onli SATA from nForce is not supported but installation is fine,can someone confirm this... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-354975 Share on other sites More sharing options...
evanrodge Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 i tot onli SATA from nForce is not supported but installation is fine,can someone confirm this... Wow... Let me respond in your language: I tink wat u r wantign is wehter NFroce works. I t dos not.GO an d reed teh for UMS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-355215 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fallingup Posted April 29, 2007 Share Posted April 29, 2007 i think its hilarious how mean some people can be in forums... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-355515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjapig Posted April 29, 2007 Share Posted April 29, 2007 actually its pretty hilarious how people throw around terms like sata and nforce and try and get people to give them a step by step process on how to do something, only when people do give it, not understand it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-355542 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppleIIGuy Posted April 29, 2007 Share Posted April 29, 2007 i think its hilarious how mean some people can be in forums... After telling 15 people the same thing in the same thread it gets on your nerves. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-355847 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azurael Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 Yeah... How long do you have to read the thread to realise that SATA on MCP51 doesn't work?! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-356102 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluedogmike Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Hellp, Is there any way to use the Pata section and remove the SATA portion of it. The reason I ask is I am unable to figure out any way to disable my Sata drive that is used for other operating systems. Even if I disable in my bios this .kext still loads drivers for controller.I asked this previously , I was hoping someone might catch this post and helpme out. The only workaround so far is to physically disconnect the Sata drive Thanks, Mike Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-357149 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azurael Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 There is an older version of the kext which doesn't support SATA, which was included on both of the early 10.4.8 install DVDs. If I had one to hand, I'd extract it from the install package for you, but sadly, I don't. Maybe somebody else can help. Alternatively, can you remove device IDs from the plist? Or even just ignore it. It's read only, so it can't harm your disks! Just hide them in the finder... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-357202 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoo101 Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 hi there. i already have access to my SATA drive, thanks to all of you guys who patiently answered questions and posted instructions drivers/kext. i have another question, just to update myself, can osx be installed natively to a SATA drive? im using nforce4 chipset thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-357254 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluedogmike Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 There is an older version of the kext which doesn't support SATA, which was included on both of the early 10.4.8 install DVDs. If I had one to hand, I'd extract it from the install package for you, but sadly, I don't. Maybe somebody else can help. Alternatively, can you remove device IDs from the plist? Or even just ignore it. It's read only, so it can't harm your disks! Just hide them in the finder... Azureal, Thanks for suggestions. I have tried to edit out device ids from Sata portion, that caused inability to fully boot. Hopefully someone can upload the original Pata version. Thanks all, Mike Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-357834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thico Alves Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 where is medevil, bikedude and all super guys who are the SATA saviors!?? It seems that MCP51 will never see macos . . . =[[ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-359648 Share on other sites More sharing options...
meesterlars Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 where is medevil, bikedude and all super guys who are the SATA saviors!?? It seems that MCP51 will never see macos . . . =[[ It seems bikdude is not going to be turning up here any time soon, if at all. Link. He continues to post here, though nothing pertaining to our ongoing struggles with the MCP51 chip. Fook and bugger. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-359728 Share on other sites More sharing options...
evanrodge Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 Definitely saw this one coming... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-359758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.J.P. Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 With all do respect, f%#k that emo comrade. He did some great work, true. But, this work is still unfinished. So, alright I will finally introduce myself. I am Comrade Joshua Pineda of the Communist League, origins date back to Marx so don't give me any of that Soviet bs. Why is that relevant? You don't have to worry about me backing out due to exploitative external forces. I'm quite use to that. It's called life. So, we need to assemble a new team ASAP and finish this MCP51 driver. I posted earlier about Darwine but I am still an amateur and didnt quite have enough knowledge about it in my previous post. I have a suspicion that there could be a solution in there but im probably wrong. I have some ideas on the drawing board and some actual developers around me to assist me. I say we need about a full 5 member team here and if we go at it hard enough we might be able to bag this in two weeks. Who's up for it? If you are just post a reply with whatever knowledge and ideas you have and we can se if any of us can reach common grounds for a solution. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-359861 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azurael Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 Are you on here ranting and raving about how you're gonna fix it again? Well do it, and stop shouting then. It may or may not have occurred to you that encapsulating a Windows NDIS driver is practical, however, network drivers are a whole different kettle of fish to ATA drivers! I'll believe it can be done when I see it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-359886 Share on other sites More sharing options...
meesterlars Posted May 5, 2007 Share Posted May 5, 2007 I agree that jumping up and down, hurling abuse, is certainly not going to help. Unfortunately I myself have no knowledge or skills to contribute to our shared quest. I would, of course, be willing to help debug/test (once my mobo is back from RMA)... All I can really do, for now, is hope that some fine soul sorts this out. Niall, where are you? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-359913 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjapig Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 Well, {censored} off to hackintosh.org i go...... But wow, this is the longest wait in the world for one driver/patch. I really hope MeDevil at least comes on here and says something as to whether he's going to jump to hackintosh.org or not. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-359936 Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.J.P. Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 Did you bother to read all of my post? I'm trying to gather together the scraps of this forum and see who all is on board with me to start developing the MCP51 driver. The darwine loop theory is somthing thats going to take me a while. It should offer, if im Jesus Christ himself that is, a permenant fix to driver issues. Like, whenever OS X updates or new hardware comes out we should just be able to dump in the Win32 driver and let it rip. But, im to ill-skilled for that at the moment. I'll be working on it though, like I said. However and more importantly, i researched the 410/430 MCP51 chipset earlier and it turns out it's actually suppose to be the upgraded nForce2 chipset. That should offer a bit of hope. But, we need to pull together a team and share our resources. In fact, if anyone knows of a goud source for Darwin code please point me to it and I will go ahead and get started on my own. The Apple developers section of the apple site looked promising a few years ago. Im guessing I need to go start there right? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-359988 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bertdd Posted May 6, 2007 Share Posted May 6, 2007 I used the driver on a Abit KN9 Ultra for PATA only (DMA and disks>128GB) and wrote a howto. Thanks for the driver so far, I'll be happy to see this one working on mcp55 with SATA. Bert Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-360320 Share on other sites More sharing options...
debauchery1st Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 does the nforce 430/410 work at all with the current drivers, or is that considered "mcp51"? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-361635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azurael Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 The MCP51 is the southbridge of the nForce 430. It is also the 'integrated' southbridge of the single chip version of the aforementioned. It is also the southbridge of the nForce 650i. Next. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-361645 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug the Impaler Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 MCP51 is the southbridge. nForce 410 and 430 are northbridges. It just happens that at the current time, about the only southbridge compatible with the 410 and the 430 is the MCP51. edit: Azureal beat me to it. Sorry for the post from the department of redundancy department post. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-361646 Share on other sites More sharing options...
debauchery1st Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 thanks, just verified that question in linux by doing a "lspci |grep -i mcp51" . 00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev f1) looks like I'm screwed then. hp dv6119us notebook pc Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/35985-darwin-nforce4-atasata-controller/page/28/#findComment-361649 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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