TheGoog Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Used the Developers DVD with the Release1 patch. Had to do the regular stuff to get the audio working. The realtek lan was recognized immediately. After I installed Vista 5231 on my sata drive OSX stopped seeing and mounting my backup partition on the pata drive. (Music, etc) So thats slightly frustrating, but it worked at one point, so there must be a solution. Hardware. ECS KN1 Extreme nForce4 mobo. AMD64 3000+ Venice core. 1024 generic DDR400 300 GB Maxtor PATA 80 GB Maxtor SATA etc. What works: Audio works. Onboard Realtek Lan works. Performance is pretty good all-around. Feels very similar to the Dual-G5's I use at school. What Doesnt: ATi video isnt recognized by the OS, obviously Wont see my NTFS drives anymore. Currently Quad booting - WinXP, Win Vista, OSX86, and Mandriva I love it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3603-successful-install-on-ecs-kn1-extreme/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 SATA drives only works on Intel and VIA chipsets, in any case NTFS access is read only. Search and apply the nForce ATA kext to enable DMA, it increases the performance very well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3603-successful-install-on-ecs-kn1-extreme/#findComment-22741 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoog Posted October 18, 2005 Author Share Posted October 18, 2005 I'm not worried about SATA access. But the fact that My PATA NTFS partition was mounted before, but wont mount now kinda ticks me off. And I did the modified nForce ATA kext. Worked wonderfully. That is until I rebooted. Bleh. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3603-successful-install-on-ecs-kn1-extreme/#findComment-22780 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 Does your NTFS partition on the PATA disk is on a Logical partition or a Primary? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3603-successful-install-on-ecs-kn1-extreme/#findComment-22861 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoog Posted October 18, 2005 Author Share Posted October 18, 2005 Not sure, and I'm in class right now so I wont be able to check till later. But could you explain the differences of the two and how they affect OSX? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3603-successful-install-on-ecs-kn1-extreme/#findComment-22877 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoog Posted October 18, 2005 Author Share Posted October 18, 2005 Also, fixed the ATA operformance issues last night where the performance gain was lost after a 3nd boot. Can't remember where I found it, but it was on this board. Now as soon as I can get OSX to mount my NTFS partition I'll be very content. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3603-successful-install-on-ecs-kn1-extreme/#findComment-22894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 Not sure, and I'm in class right now so I wont be able to check till later. But could you explain the differences of the two and how they affect OSX? Thanks. AFAIK Mac OS X only see primary partitions, but I need to do some test to confirm that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3603-successful-install-on-ecs-kn1-extreme/#findComment-22916 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoog Posted October 19, 2005 Author Share Posted October 19, 2005 AFAIK Mac OS X only see primary partitions, but I need to do some test to confirm that. Well, I may have to counter that, as the partition was apparently a Logical partition, but OSX had loaded it. But now I changed it to Primary and I still get the same issue where I can see it in the OSX Disk Utility, but OSX wont mount it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3603-successful-install-on-ecs-kn1-extreme/#findComment-22993 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 Well, I may have to counter that, as the partition was apparently a Logical partition, but OSX had loaded it. But now I changed it to Primary and I still get the same issue where I can see it in the OSX Disk Utility, but OSX wont mount it. In the man page of NTFS mount it describes some limitations, like compressed file/disk. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3603-successful-install-on-ecs-kn1-extreme/#findComment-23083 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoog Posted October 20, 2005 Author Share Posted October 20, 2005 Ok, I discovered a solution to the problem with my NTFS drive. The problem started after I resized the partition. (didnt think of it at first) and all I did was backup my files, and formatted the drive in windowsXP, using the default NTFS values. Booted back into OSX, and everything was fine! I'd suggest trying that to anyone having similar problems. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3603-successful-install-on-ecs-kn1-extreme/#findComment-23243 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 Good to know that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3603-successful-install-on-ecs-kn1-extreme/#findComment-23309 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jordn Posted October 31, 2005 Share Posted October 31, 2005 Used the Developers DVD with the Release1 patch. Had to do the regular stuff to get the audio working. The realtek lan was recognized immediately. After I installed Vista 5231 on my sata drive OSX stopped seeing and mounting my backup partition on the pata drive. (Music, etc) So thats slightly frustrating, but it worked at one point, so there must be a solution. Hardware. ECS KN1 Extreme nForce4 mobo. AMD64 3000+ Venice core. 1024 generic DDR400 300 GB Maxtor PATA 80 GB Maxtor SATA etc. What works: Audio works. Onboard Realtek Lan works. Performance is pretty good all-around. Feels very similar to the Dual-G5's I use at school. What Doesnt: ATi video isnt recognized by the OS, obviously Wont see my NTFS drives anymore. Currently Quad booting - WinXP, Win Vista, OSX86, and Mandriva I love it. hey, i was thinking about purchasing this mobo, can you confirm exactly what works? thanks in advance, jordn Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3603-successful-install-on-ecs-kn1-extreme/#findComment-25565 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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