e-rick Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 (edited) Hi, I've been experimenting a bit with the AppleVIAAta.kext and the VIA SATA patch on the Jas 10.4.8 DVD and eventually ended up having a lot faster HD access.. What i did was: Installing the VIA SATA package from the JaS DVD. In info.plist in the AppleVIAATA.kext I modified value <key>Serial ATA</key> <true/> in the ATA or PATA section.. This makes OSX believe it is on a SATA disk and speeds up disk access. my xbench disk results went from 30 to about 75… however….. i have no idea if this is in any way extremely bad for your hardware….. If anyone had some good ideas about this 'solution' please post them. This might just be an easy way to speed things up a little.... Edited January 9, 2007 by e-rick Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38121-fix-slow-ide-readwrite-speed/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wils Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Thank you!!! This works for me. My PIDE disk read/write went from 12MB/s to 45MB/s Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38121-fix-slow-ide-readwrite-speed/#findComment-1068363 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maniac10 Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Thank you so much e-rick, this took my hope back in osx86. I was having a hard time lately cause my system was really slow and was getting slower every minute. I thought it was something to do with my video card, cause my old 7300 died and I bought a 8400gs and since then it was a pain to run leopard. I'm using the AppleNforceATA kext by medevil but it has the same strings so I changed that line in the pata section and voila! As I said before, I'm running leopard with the latest update (10.5.6) with the latest voodoo kernel by andy (10.5.6) A little thing to notice is, although I "feel" the boost, I wasn't able to see it on my disk performance. I used xbench and the results are the same, but that little thing changed something else that took my video performance back where it belong. My system: Athlon 64 3000+ Asus A8N-SLI (nforce4 sli) 1.5gb ram ddr 400 IDE HD Maxtor 80 Gb Again, thank you e-rick. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38121-fix-slow-ide-readwrite-speed/#findComment-1068682 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotcorez Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Hi Guys, I read about this a while back (2005) but was skeptical about how stable this would be. I know that Medevils PATA driver is based on apple's generic one with modified timings. However, it should be noted that if you want to use this (viaata.kext) in 64 bit mode you should get the fixed viaata.kext from slashhack. http://code.google.com/p/darwin-ata/downloads/list this will enable the use of 64bit, 2gb ram + without kernel panics and possibly other related improvements. FAO ematos, will you be updating your sig to show this new ATA setup? ps where the beep is medevil? Cheers, HC Thank you so much e-rick, this took my hope back in osx86. I was having a hard time lately cause my system was really slow and was getting slower every minute. I thought it was something to do with my video card, cause my old 7300 died and I bought a 8400gs and since then it was a pain to run leopard.I'm using the AppleNforceATA kext by medevil but it has the same strings so I changed that line in the pata section and voila! As I said before, I'm running leopard with the latest update (10.5.6) with the latest voodoo kernel by andy (10.5.6) A little thing to notice is, although I "feel" the boost, I wasn't able to see it on my disk performance. I used xbench and the results are the same, but that little thing changed something else that took my video performance back where it belong. My system: Athlon 64 3000+ Asus A8N-SLI (nforce4 sli) 1.5gb ram ddr 400 IDE HD Maxtor 80 Gb Again, thank you e-rick. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38121-fix-slow-ide-readwrite-speed/#findComment-1082306 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maniac10 Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Sig updated with link. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38121-fix-slow-ide-readwrite-speed/#findComment-1082402 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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