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I am currently trying to install jas 10.4.8 on my computer and have created a fat 32 partition to delete and turn into a mac extended partition, but unfortunately when I enter the disk utility to modify the fat 32 partition my hard drive is not there. All I am able to see through the Disk Utility is my cd rom drive and the disk that I am using to install mac os x. In addition to this nothing shows up where you "Select Destination".

 

Here are my system specs:

Amd Athlon 64x2 64 bit 4200

Asus m2n-sli deluxe

Segate 320Gb SATA II

and I think that's all that's important...

 

I have searched for incompadibilities when using a SATA II hard drive and as far as I have been able to see it should be fine, but that's the only thing that I could think of that could cause it to not show up.

 

Anyone have any ideas?

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From an install guide:

 

HDD Prep procedure-

 

"""". Create at least 6GB unallocated space on your harddisk using Partition Magic:

Start partition Magic

>> Click on ‘Resize/Move Partition

>> Move the slider to make the partition smaller and hit OK

>> Click on ‘Apply’

>> Close Partition Magic

 

4. Click ‘START > Run…’ and type ‘diskpart’ (without quotes)

 

5. Type in (press enter after you typed in a line):

 

list disk

select disk [the number of your disk]

create partition primary id=af

list partition

select partition [the number of your new osx partition]

active (if this doesn’t work, try ’set active’ without quotes) """"

 

 

Now, when you boot into the install DVD, you will need to go to Disk Utility and select the disk labled "disk0s2" or w/e looks like that (it's the drive u just made with the procedures above) and then erase it to format it.

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From an install guide:

 

HDD Prep procedure-

 

"""". Create at least 6GB unallocated space on your harddisk using Partition Magic:

Start partition Magic

>> Click on 'Resize/Move Partition

>> Move the slider to make the partition smaller and hit OK

>> Click on 'Apply'

>> Close Partition Magic

 

4. Click 'START > Run…' and type 'diskpart' (without quotes)

 

5. Type in (press enter after you typed in a line):

 

list disk

select disk [the number of your disk]

create partition primary id=af

list partition

select partition [the number of your new osx partition]

active (if this doesn't work, try 'set active' without quotes) """"

 

Unfortunately, this is the guide that I followed and after I set that partition active in diskpart my computer wouldn't boot. Apparently it changes the boot partition, because when I opened gparted it said that the partition that was set to boot was now an unknown one (the one that was created in diskpart) as opposed to what it used to be (my ntfs partition). I tried changing the ntfs partition to boot, but it still won't work (grub error 17).

 

I had read another one though that said I could go into the disk utility in the osx install and format a fat 32 partition into a hfs+ one and I had hoped to try that so I could get back up and running agian, however I couldn't see anything other than my dvd drive in the disk utility. I'm not exactly sure where to go from here in order to get os x up and running.

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buffalobitch
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I have exactly the same problem.

Followed the same guide...

 

What i have done now: Ive made a partition on my empty disk, now he is installing.

But i doupt that he will boot...

 

 

EDIT: got an error that the disk isn't good (check for fingerprints).

Just pushed ok, but now he sais that there were errors while installing software and I should try installing again...

 

EDIT: the harddisk where i made the osx partition while installing, is marked as bad by partition magic 8.

When i trie to format the disk, i get an error also...

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Flammadeao
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Buffalo, you say that you had the exact same problem, but you were able to get it to install... what did you use to create a partition and what type did you make it?

 

If you are having troubles with your hard drive and arnt' afraid of losing anything you could try writting zeros to the disk. That would give you a clean slate and might help you get going again.

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Wilkie
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Flammadeao,

 

I'm seriously thinking it's the chipset combined with the SATA HDD. I have the same problem using this OS, or ANY unix-based OS for that matter. There seems to be a known but undocumented issue with the SATA controller on nForce 570 chipset (at least with M2N edition boards from Asus).

 

You could run an IDE HDD and probably have no issues. But, if you're like me, you already have 2 IDE devices in your system and your board only has 1 IDE port. The question is, do you sacrifice on the fly burning for a beautiful OS or do you keep your on the fly and stay stuck running OSx86 on a Socket A like me? :)

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Buffalo, you say that you had the exact same problem, but you were able to get it to install... what did you use to create a partition and what type did you make it?

 

If you are having troubles with your hard drive and arnt' afraid of losing anything you could try writting zeros to the disk. That would give you a clean slate and might help you get going again.

 

I was running raid0.

Now i'm just running in standard ide mode.

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osxhtpc
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Same problem here

Just bought a Acer Aspire 5100-5945

AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology

TL50(1.6 GHZ, 512KB L2 Cache)

ATI Radedon Express 1100 Chipset

120 GB HD ( I don't know what type of hardrive this is) Acronis says it is SCSI very strange i think it is a SATA

1GB DDR2

DVD R/RW

 

I have tried formatting the hardrive with 6GB partition. No go

How is the support for SATA drives in OS X86.

Is there a detailed guide to solving this ?

Any help woul be appreciated

Thanks :D

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Wilkie
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Psuedo,

 

Macs have been using SATA HDD for a while now. It's not the HDD that's the problem. It's the nForce 570 chipset. I have yet to find a unix based OS (Linux, BSD, Mac) that has been able to detect the drives connected to the SATA controller without issue. Most of them see the SATA controller, but they don't see any drives.

 

The other downside is most nforce 570 boards only have 1 IDE port on them, yet they have 6-8 SATA-II ports. Until nVidia fixes the problem between them and Unix OSs, I'd suggest dropping 1 of your existing IDE optical drives for an IDE HDD or purchase a PCI IDE controller card and hope that OSx86 sees it.

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osxhtpc
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Hey Wilkie

 

Thanks for your reply !!

This is actually a Notebook Computer, so changing the hardrive is kinda hard.

Also if i am not mistaken this notebook seems to have a ATI 1100 Chipset, not nforce chipset.

 

I spoke to a colleague at work and he said it had something to do with flagging the drive correcly, he mentioned a0 or something like that. I am thinking maybe I should just do two partitions and then completely wipe the drives. Does anybody know how to set the correct flags on SATA hardrives so that OS X can see the drives in installer ?

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I can't see my hard drives either. I have an Intel motherboard with a 3.00 Ghz CPU, 1Gb of RAM. I have a two Seagate SATA drives, the main is 300Gb, the secondary is 200Gb. The secodary one is where I plan on installing osx, no partitions.

 

I am using the JAS 10.4.8 install disk, it boots fine, but when I get to the screen where it asks me which drive to install on, I don't see any drives to choose from.

 

I understand from reading that this install has an issue with SATA drives, but, others have been able to make it work. Some of the work arounds that people have posted look like Greek to me.

 

Am I able to install it? Can anybody help? Do you need more information?

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First of all, get the JaS 10.4.8 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3 with ppf1

 

Secondly, if available in the bios, change your modes to RAID (not RAID0, RAID1 etc.).

When prompted after reboot, ignore the SATA RAID utility text (like "Press F4 for SATA RAID utility" etc.).

 

Your drives will be found.

 

If not, try playing arround with the same settings and change it to AHPI or ACPI or whatever its called (I forgot the exact name, sorry it's late and I'm tired, lol :()

 

Again, your drives will be picked up.

 

Had the same issue till I got the right JaS version and played around with these bios settings.

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I have tried several different versions now. Downloaded the patch files and self patched as well as downloaded the prepatched discs. I even borrowed discs from my friend, who knows more about this than me. OS X still cannot see my drives. My bios is very limited so I cannot change the settingd for the hardrive. I find it hard to believe that this computer would be using a Raid setup. Thanks for your response :)

Any ideas on what is going on ??

 

Aspire 5100-5945

AMD Turion 64 x2 Mobile Technology

TL50 (1.6GHz, 512KB L2 Cache)

ATI Radeon Xpress 1100

120 GB HD ( I dont know what knd of hard drive this is)

DVD-Super Multi 1GB DDR2

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osxhtpc
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Hi noptuno

 

Thanks for getting back to me. This is my drive model number HTS541612J9SA00 it is a Hitachi Travelstar. Apparently it is the same drive they use in the macbook pro. I believe this is a SATA drive.

Why is the installer not seeing this drive when I try to install. This is crazy. Imust be doing something wrong that is really simple to fix. I erased everything off the drive, to see if installer would see it, but to no avail. I downloaded the the new Jas disc with all the patches defiant,bikergirl etc. ,still does not work. :whistle:

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I can't see my hard drives either. I have an Intel motherboard with a 3.00 Ghz CPU, 1Gb of RAM. I have a two Seagate SATA drives, the main is 300Gb, the secondary is 200Gb. The secodary one is where I plan on installing osx, no partitions.

 

I am using the JAS 10.4.8 install disk, it boots fine, but when I get to the screen where it asks me which drive to install on, I don't see any drives to choose from.

 

I understand from reading that this install has an issue with SATA drives, but, others have been able to make it work. Some of the work arounds that people have posted look like Greek to me.

 

Am I able to install it? Can anybody help? Do you need more information?

 

I am having this same problem...i can see the drive in the disk utility and erase it to format it but then when I go to the install part I don't have any drives visible to install onto. any help would be greatly appreaciated.

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Same problem here with a sata drive and nforce4. I changed the sata for an ide drive and now i can see the disk on the installer. Had to completly unplug the sata drive from the system otherwise the problem continued.

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