SATA in 10.4.8 ?

[Goron]

Does the VIA 8237A SATA work in 10.4.8? I´m really stuck with this all other issues were solved, even sound works great.

 

Hope someone can help ....

[e-rick]

Yes! it's possible.

I've got it working on an ASUS P5VDC-X and if I'm not mistaking this is the exact same Mobo you're using.

 

 

check following posts:

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=13487

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...mp;#entry262252 (for useful files)

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...amp;hl=via+sata

 

I'll post some instructions later, It's quite easy,

Just put the device and manufacturer ID in the plist in AppleVIAATA.kext and chown and chmod, throw away kextcache and reboot.

You also have to put the AppleVIAATA.kext in the IOATAFamily.kext plugin folder for it to really work well (If you dont you sometimes have to activate SATA disks manually)

I'll post some better instrucions later today, but you can also find them on this forum already..

[e-rick]

Before you begin backup AppleVIAATA.kext and IOATAFamily.kext.

 

Make sure you have AppleVIAATA.kext. If you don't have it, get it here

In AppleVIAATA.kext modify the info.plist file so that the SATA entry reads :

 

<key>VIA SATA Controller</key>

<dict>

<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>

<string>com.apple.driver.AppleVIAATA</string>

<key>Hardware Name</key>

<string>8237 SATA</string>

<key>IOClass</key>

<string>AppleVIAATARoot</string>

<key>IOPCIPrimaryMatch</key>

<string>0x05911106 </string>

 

the last string is the one you have to alter here. 1106 is your vendor ID 0591 is the device ID.

 

Next up is the IOATAFamily.kext

Copy the AppleVIAATA.kext file into the plugin folder in IOATAFamily.kext

Now you have AppleVIAATAFamily.kext in the extension folder and in the IOATAFamily plugin folder.

 

Open a terminal window and type:

 

sudo chown -R root:wheel system/library/extensions/Appleviaata.kext

 

sudo chmod -R 755 system/library/extensions/Appleviaata.kext

 

sudo chown -R root:wheel system/library/extensions/IOATAFamily.kext

 

sudo chmod -R 755 system/library/extensions/IOATAFamily.kext

 

By the way, a very useful tool in times of experimenting with OSX86 is HD Clonetool

You can make a 'clone' of your harddisk. And use the clone to experiment on while your original OSX installation stays intact.

Edited December 29, 2006 by e-rick

[Goron]

K, i´ll try ....

 

 

Sound worked for me as I moved AppleAC97Audio.kext and AppleHDA.kext to another place. After that I edited the AppleAzaliaAudio.kext/Contents/Info.plist in section:

 

<key>Realtek ALC880/ALC860 Codec Driver</key>

<dict>

<key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>

<string>com.apple.driver.AppleAzaliaAudio</string>

<key>IOClass</key>

<string>AppleAzaliaAudioCodecALC880</string>

<key>IOHDAudioCodecVendorID</key>

<string>0x11d41986</string>

<key>IOProbeScore</key>

<integer>10000</integer>

<key>IOProviderClass</key>

<string>IOHDAudioCodecDevice</string>

 

11d4 is the correct ID, after that i repaired disk permissions and then rebooted.

[Goron]

YES!!! Success!!!

 

I couldn´t copy VIAATA into IOFamily, but just using correct Vendor ID worked!!

 

Thx a lot! Pls report about your sound issue ...

[e-rick]

Hi,

leaving only AppleAzalia in the extension folder did the trick,I now have onboard audio output, which is great.. Thanx

 

Only no spdif and no audio in..

 

So I'll have something to do over the weekend...

Maybe using the AC97 kext...

[bwhsh8r]

if you search youll find soooooo many posts on this, thank you, nforce onboard sata and ati xpress 300 chipset sata is not working. the only way if you have those is to ether get an ata drive or get a supported sata controler chip (pci i think)