optmsprim2 Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Hi! Just want to say up front that I spent the last 2.5 days getting OS X working on my rig and these forums and everyone on them are absolutely brilliant and I'm loving every second of it. That being said I have one small quirk. I installed OSX86 (tubgirl 10.4.8 AMD FINAL) on a 7 GB partition on my one and only PATA drive. One of my SATA drives is split between a 100 GB Mac Partition and a 50 GB FAT32 partition. After the clean install I only used hamlo's IOATAFamily.kext to get OSX to recognize my SATA drives. It did so perfectly and every partition was mounted nicely. However, I'm having a small problem when downloading torrents. I am using Transmission (have also tried Azureus and Acquisition) and setting it to download the files to the SATA partition (Mac one) since the PATA partition is so small. When I did this the downloads started fine and then would stop. In the case of transmission it would start over completely (meaning everything it downloaded got overwritten and started over). With the other two it would pause every few minutes. When I download to the available space on the PATA drive it goes with no problem. My guess is that it simply has something to do with the SATA drives and how it's handled in OSX86 (besides basic things I have no idea how you people make this magic work). My only concern is that if there is anything else I would use (movies, music, burning, etc.) that would access those drives for extended periods of time they would be interrupted. I never have problems accessing the drives, though when I boot up into OSX it doesn't always automatically mount every partition, though most of the time it does. I tried searching and couldn't find anything specifically like this. If there is something feel free to redirect me, otherwise any help would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 Do you have any problems if you do a direct Finder copy of files from the PATA drive to the SATA drive? (Try as big a file as possible.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
optmsprim2 Posted February 11, 2007 Author Share Posted February 11, 2007 (edited) I have no problem copy large files between the two, though sometimes i have problems mounting images from the SATA drive, but not always. when copying large files sometimes the progress bar stutters a little but it never stops. EDIT: Nevermind, the problem seems to have worked itself out. Probably had problems before because of the consistency of recognizing/mounting the SATA partitions. During boots when all partitions are recognized and mounted immediately it works fine. Edited February 11, 2007 by optmsprim2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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