lnxmad Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 (edited) Well at first after fresh install, If I delt with any large file I would get the death error: Device Blocking Bus and everything locked up(not the os but writabilty). It sucked...I tried the AppleNForceFamily kext provided by MeDevil and bikedude880. Link here: AppleNforceFamily. It partially worked. The drive would be (somewhat) writable and not totally lock up like before, but it was still giving the Device Blocking Bus error. Still Sucked because some files were unable to be written too, other would be fine. I could delete files unlike before but iTunes was unable to save playlist.... So Finnaly at last resort I tried the "testing" of hamlo. Link here: Testing(DEVELOPMENT). I was a little sketchy about it because I was unsure if I would be able to boot back into osx. I did it anyway. So far so good. I did XBench and got good speeds(which I was getting before, before the drive locked up). I succesfully copied a 1 gig file with out any trouble. I will continue to do exsessive testing reading/writing/XBenching/Restarting/Copying/Delete/Copying/Delete/Restarting to make sure everything is Stable. I will keep updating and hopefully things will work out. I just wanted to let people know about it. If anyone has some good ideas on how to test for disk corruption, please speak up. I want to do ALOT of tests just to make sure. Specs: CPU: Intel Core2 Duo E6600 2.4(Works flawlessly*2 processors enabled*) Mobo: Asus P5n32-SE Deluxe Chipset: NVidia NForce4 SLI x16 Video Card: eVGA GForce 7900GS 256mb(Installed Natit and is now working smoothly *very* smoothly) Ram: 2x 1Gb Corsair XMS2 HD: Western Digital SATA Raptor(10,000rpm) * 75Gb Hope this helps anyone having technical difuculties. I will be updating. Greetings from The USA - East Coast Dan. Update: This is strange. I guess I spoke to soon. I tried Secure emptying trash(deleting 2.5 gigs*1000+files). I restarted and started to delete and there is came up. That dumbass error again. I restarted again and was able to delete the files with no error. =( I am confused. I really dont want to go back to windows =( Edited February 28, 2007 by lnxmad Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43796-nforce4-sata-update/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 no bro... you need medevil's kext instead. it does work i advice you to reinstall from scratch, your FS is already corrupted a note to mods: isn't better to delete all those confusing threads about NF4? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43796-nforce4-sata-update/#findComment-313188 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 What I did was edited the first post to redirect people to the BikeDude/MeDevil thread. I don't want to delete that thread because it was another effort to obtain Nforce4 SATA kexts. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43796-nforce4-sata-update/#findComment-313704 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnxmad Posted March 1, 2007 Author Share Posted March 1, 2007 I figure out, I am just really confused on how to install medevil's kext. Could someone explain(in detail). I just installed xp again =( =( =( I hate it. I want mac so bad. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43796-nforce4-sata-update/#findComment-313820 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Envying Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 Hijack this thread for a while, What is your network solution? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43796-nforce4-sata-update/#findComment-313823 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnxmad Posted March 1, 2007 Author Share Posted March 1, 2007 Well my mobo(Asus P5n32-SE Deluxe) has two Ethernet connections. 1) Marvell 88E8053 and 2) Marvell 88E1115. At install, I had the cable unpluged so some things dont get a chance to register...After that I plugged it into one of them, and it didnt work. I tried the other one and it worked immediately. I had no problems after that. I am not sure which one of the two I hooked up to that worked as I was not really paying attention, but I will further update a post to tell people which one works once I figure out this stupid little bug with NF4. I dont know if this helps or not. Maybe you are on a router? There are a couple of ways to tinker with the network settings in the OS. Sit there in tinker for awhile(Im sure you have). Sorry =\ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43796-nforce4-sata-update/#findComment-313844 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnxmad Posted March 1, 2007 Author Share Posted March 1, 2007 Well I think I installed the kext right. Lets hope for the best. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43796-nforce4-sata-update/#findComment-313900 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnxmad Posted March 1, 2007 Author Share Posted March 1, 2007 How can I test the drive for the Device Blocking Bus error? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43796-nforce4-sata-update/#findComment-313914 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnxmad Posted March 1, 2007 Author Share Posted March 1, 2007 DAMNIT!!! MOTHA ASSS *** GOD I am sick of this. Why does kernel[0]: IOATAController device blocking bus. keep coming up =( I installed the kext and everything. SHould it be working. PLEASE HELP! MY LIFE DEPENDS ON IT Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43796-nforce4-sata-update/#findComment-313944 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 yea.. sure.. your life depends on a kext.... wow 4 in a row, this is a record. well seems that the old viaata kext is still probing your sata controller, delete if from the ioatafamily kext @macgirl:aye you're right Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43796-nforce4-sata-update/#findComment-313958 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnxmad Posted March 1, 2007 Author Share Posted March 1, 2007 (edited) dont see it in there chief =\ Should I just delete the whole AppleVIAATA.kext from extensions? Edited March 1, 2007 by lnxmad Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43796-nforce4-sata-update/#findComment-313965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 checked subdirs? also check the extensions folder, maybe it's out of ioatafamily Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43796-nforce4-sata-update/#findComment-313970 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnxmad Posted March 1, 2007 Author Share Posted March 1, 2007 Yes there is AppleVIAATA.kext in the extensions folder, should I delete? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43796-nforce4-sata-update/#findComment-313972 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted March 1, 2007 Share Posted March 1, 2007 (edited) yep check up correct permissions on the medevil's kext too in terminal: sudo chmod -R 755 /path/to/the/kext/kextname.kext/ sudo chown -R root:wheel /path/to/the/kext/kextname.kext/ i advice to reinstall from scratch using vmware and redo those steps, your filesystem's already corrupted. next time calm down and read better what you found oh... and do not open tons of threads for the same issue man Edited March 1, 2007 by lord_muad_dib Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43796-nforce4-sata-update/#findComment-313973 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnxmad Posted March 1, 2007 Author Share Posted March 1, 2007 ok, I already checked the permissions of medevils kext. Ill delete via and hope for the best. Thanks man, I appreciate it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43796-nforce4-sata-update/#findComment-313975 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnxmad Posted March 2, 2007 Author Share Posted March 2, 2007 Well I deleted AppleVIAATA.kext from extensions and removed the extension mtext and cache and restarted. Everything seem to work. I restarted again and got a true death error: Still waiting for root device. It seems it did not load the NForceATA drivers because there was no signs of it in verbose. I also tried putting the driver in IOATAFamily.kext/Contents/Plugins. Still the same error. Any ideas? If I just install the driver without removing AppleVIAATA.kext the driver loads on boot but the VIAATA must be still probing my HD. I have lost most hope. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43796-nforce4-sata-update/#findComment-314415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 Does your Device ID is in the list of the Info.plist? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43796-nforce4-sata-update/#findComment-314487 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnxmad Posted March 2, 2007 Author Share Posted March 2, 2007 dont know how to get my id from mac =\ i dont feel like going back to windows just for that =\ is there any other way? Also when I find it, I just put it in extensions folder and delete VIAATA kext? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43796-nforce4-sata-update/#findComment-314494 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 Yes, is what all we did. Did you erase the Extensions.kextcache and Extensions.mkext ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43796-nforce4-sata-update/#findComment-314620 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tekken Meister Posted March 3, 2007 Share Posted March 3, 2007 Well I just wanna thank everybody for this thread. It was totally useful for me. I downloaded the file, and I'm really newbie at this .. didn't even know where to put the file but I managed to figure where and following lord_muad instructions for changing permissions to the file, I was able to boot back and now my SATA drives are all listed and I'm able to read from them. Placed the file into System/Library/extensions then changed permissions rebooted... and working so far I had previously Installed 10.4.7 and just decided to clean install up to 10.4.8 With 10.4.7 I had some issues with USB drives and my GeForce7900 wasn't the best even with macvidia drivers Now I guess I'm much more comfortable with this version.. seems a bit faster too. Here's my hardware to be of some reference: ASUS A8N32SLI-Deluxe 4GB RAM AMD 4200 X2 30GB IDE HDD 500GB SATAII GeForce 7900GT Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/43796-nforce4-sata-update/#findComment-315613 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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