riktor Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 Ok so I got a near flawless running install of OS X 10.4.8 from the last JaS release with all the patches. I was so content with how it was working I figure I would take it off a partition and give it its own 160gb drive and install a 60GB drive for windows. That way I can setup the RAID for Final Cut Pro. So I redo the wiring of IDE cables and I have it setup as follows IDE 0 Master 160GB OS X Volume IDE 0 Slave 60 GB (gonna be windows but OSX isnt working right yet) IDE 1 Master DVD RW Aopen IDE 1 Slave 320 GB Storage drive NTFS (no installs here just backups) SATA 1 & 2 74GB Raptors (Will be used in OSX for Final Cut as RAID) So I decide I will reformat since thats always the best option. Well I back up my programs and wipe the OSX partition and use the install disc that I used last time. Setup the whole 160GB drive as OS X and start installing. First the installer runs hella slow, then when I boot into OSX it takes damn near 30 minutes to repair persmission which took a whole 30 secs before. This system runs like its a damn Pentium 2. So what did I do wrong, should I let OSX have its own IDE Channel? I can remove my 320 storage drive and give OSX its own IDE channel but I kinda wanted all my drives in my tower, though I have and external enclosure. Its so wiered though I installed it the same but Wireless works without the en0 to en1 hack and I didnt really have to mess with anything. Its almost like I installed a differnt release but I couldnt have since its the only DVD I got? Any help would be great. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43496-what-the-hell-happened-it-was-working/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
riktor Posted February 25, 2007 Author Share Posted February 25, 2007 I added the custom drivers for nForce4 /SATA in my extensions folder, it seemed to fix my lag issue but now I got this wiered double menu thing on my apple menu. 2x restarts, 2x logouts, 2x Shutdowns, and the shutdowns have two different shortcuts attached. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43496-what-the-hell-happened-it-was-working/#findComment-310900 Share on other sites More sharing options...
riktor Posted February 25, 2007 Author Share Posted February 25, 2007 Sratch that... its friggen slugish again. System claims Im always using 90% of my processor while idle. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43496-what-the-hell-happened-it-was-working/#findComment-310935 Share on other sites More sharing options...
riktor Posted February 25, 2007 Author Share Posted February 25, 2007 I really dont understand why this was working seamlessly then after a reformat its dodgy. I did an Xbench and got a whopping 10, when it was like 8 times that when the system was working before I change it. I grabbing at straws, can anyone help me at all? And because of my diligence in review the forums while waiting for an answer I found a thread for Smethex Kernel Updater Script, and now my XBench is 106 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43496-what-the-hell-happened-it-was-working/#findComment-310950 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 Awesome, Congratz! hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43496-what-the-hell-happened-it-was-working/#findComment-311115 Share on other sites More sharing options...
riktor Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 Thnx Hecker, but unfortunately after a reboot later the next day it was back to a 10 Xbench, the only change I can see is that when I orginally installed it there was a fat32 partition before it on the drive, Im gonna redo that and see if it works, cause Ive pulled drives gave it a IDE channel to itself and it still didnt like it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43496-what-the-hell-happened-it-was-working/#findComment-311825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hecker Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Hmm, I don't think the FAT32 partition will have any impact at all. You might try checking your BIOS settings and disable all unneeded devices. hecker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43496-what-the-hell-happened-it-was-working/#findComment-311837 Share on other sites More sharing options...
riktor Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 Tried that, I also have just tried a reinstall without SATA enabled... see my XP install was on a RAID 0 on my sata drives, so when OS X couldnt read them I just unmounted them. So far SATA off seems to be working. But I though Nforce3 SATA worked as of 10.4.8, Ive seen a Nforce driver being coded, but how do I install the kext? I would think just dropping it in the folder with the rest of the kexts and rebooting. Will that work? I really want my SATA drives to work, in seperate drives for one RAID if possible... for Final Cut Pro and Shake. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43496-what-the-hell-happened-it-was-working/#findComment-311984 Share on other sites More sharing options...
riktor Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 Well if even if no one is paying attention to this thread I will keep writing my updates, Ive narrowed it down to my SATA drives, when there on my system is slow as if UMDA is not on I get a Xbench of around 80 with them off... however I did get my SATA drives to work well enough to setup a RAID in OSX and run XBench score of over a hundred, but I just cant seem to keep them working. So I am pretty desperate for help and I have been doing a ton of searches in the forums, but Im not sure what threads are up to date being that they may apply to and older install other than mine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43496-what-the-hell-happened-it-was-working/#findComment-312051 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnowHow Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 In your very first post you said: Ok so I got a near flawless running install of OS X 10.4.8 from the last JaS release with all the patches. I was so content with how it was working I figure I would take it off a partition and give it its own 160gb drive and install a 60GB drive for windows. That way I can setup the RAID for Final Cut Pro. So I redo the wiring of IDE cables and I have it setup as follows IDE 0 Master 160GB OS X Volume IDE 0 Slave 60 GB (gonna be windows but OSX isnt working right yet) IDE 1 Master DVD RW Aopen IDE 1 Slave 320 GB Storage drive NTFS (no installs here just backups) SATA 1 & 2 74GB Raptors (Will be used in OSX for Final Cut as RAID) How did you have it set up before you started playing with cables? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43496-what-the-hell-happened-it-was-working/#findComment-312071 Share on other sites More sharing options...
riktor Posted February 27, 2007 Author Share Posted February 27, 2007 2x Raptors on SATA RAID 0 (Windows) IDE 0 Master: 160GB (Divided into two Partitons 40GB Fat 32 Remainder OSX) IDE 1 Master: Aopen DVD-RW IDE 1 Slave: 320GB NTFS The 60 GB was added to support windows so I could use the SATA's for RAID in OSX. The system will boot and run correctly when SATAs are disabled. I have managed to get it to work using these commands in the terminal to reset kext cahce sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions kextcache -k /system/library/extensions Then on reboot SATA can be used but after the next boot they are jacked up again. On the previous setup the SATAs were unloaded because the RAID was not seen correctly by OSX but they did boot with the system. Doing the same on the current setup causes the disk access to be horrible even after they are unmounted. Ok now to add to the confusion. Here is an Xbench with SATAs off (left) and on (right) notice that drive speed really doesnt change but everything else does. So now it seems my hard drive access isnt messed up but my data stream. Is there another 8.8.1 kernel for AMD other Smethex, could that be it? Update... more searching and I tried to boot using the platform=x86pc at the boot screen and so far its working. There have been alot of working for single boots then not the next so we will see if this fixes it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43496-what-the-hell-happened-it-was-working/#findComment-312140 Share on other sites More sharing options...
riktor Posted February 27, 2007 Author Share Posted February 27, 2007 (edited) New Update, plaform=x86pc doesnt work by it self but only with addition of -v operator... I will conduct more tests. added both platform edit and -v to boot.plist file so I wouldnt have to do it evertime... so far 5 boots no problems boots in 15 seconds. Eye candy for when its working Edited February 27, 2007 by riktor Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43496-what-the-hell-happened-it-was-working/#findComment-312184 Share on other sites More sharing options...
riktor Posted February 27, 2007 Author Share Posted February 27, 2007 Still other reboots and my problem seems to be gone, I can only assume it had something to do with Power Management not being able to deal with SATA. I also checked my scores from Xbench with a real Macbook Pro and my scores are inline or a little better which makes me . Considering a Macbook Pro is capable of doing 2k film composites in Shake 4.1 which is a difficult feat. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43496-what-the-hell-happened-it-was-working/#findComment-312331 Share on other sites More sharing options...
adriandkicks Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 Dont forget to change your power mabagement mode in the BIOS to S1 Sleep or it will never wake from sleep. and disable sleep in the engergy saver system prference pane. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43496-what-the-hell-happened-it-was-working/#findComment-312337 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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