igorken Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 (edited) I've tried some of the possible solutions found here, but none helped me. Is there any? Thanks in advance! Everything is working really well, except the damn HDD. System is 10.4.8 with 8.8.1 core. Here is all the hardware: ATA Device Physical Info Manufacturer Seagate Hard Disk Name Barracuda 7200.7 Plus 160023 Form Factor 3.5" Formatted Capacity 160 GB Device Description North Bridge: ATI RC410 South Bridge: ULi/ALi M1575 Computer Type ACPI Multiprocessor PC Motherboard System Memory 1024 MB (DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM) Motherboard Name Asus P5RD2-VM (2 PCI, 1 PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x16, 2 DDR2 DIMM, Audio, Video, Gigabit LAN) Motherboard Chipset ATI Radeon Xpress 200 CPU Type DualCore Intel Pentium D 820, 2800 MHz (14 x 200) BIOS Type AMI (05/30/06) Storage Storage Controller SCSI/RAID Host Controller SMART Hard Disks Status OK Optical Drive _NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG (DVD+R9:4x, DVD+RW:16x/4x, DVD-RW:16x/4x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:48x/24x/48x DVD+RW/DVD-RW) Optical Drive VT6100F EJF612F SCSI CdRom Device IDE Controller ALi M5229 PCI Bus Master IDE Controller IDE Controller Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller Disk Drive ST3160023A (160 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100) Disk Drive ST3160023A (160 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100) Edited December 19, 2006 by igorken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 Your problem lies in the IDE Controller. There are no drivers for the ALi chipset. Until one is written, you are just going to have to stick with the slow speeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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