Chevelle Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 The "JaS 10.4.8 DVD AMD AND INTEL SSE2 AND SSE3.iso" is not see my whole hdd. Its a seagate 160gb sataII. I have it hooked to my orange ports on my Gigabyte DS3 v1.0 board. Any ideas? There are no partition on it at all. I formated it with seagate tools to make sure it was empty. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45379-install-dvd-not-see-whole-hdd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dope M.S.R. Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 run disk utilities in the mac dvd and format it in mac os ext. journal i know when i was messing around before i got mine up i had to do 2 partitions to format and install OSX on my hd... that was odd to me but it worked Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45379-install-dvd-not-see-whole-hdd/#findComment-324386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
feriso Posted March 15, 2007 Share Posted March 15, 2007 You need to create a partition in disk utility click the partion button on the top and set the number you want and sizes there. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45379-install-dvd-not-see-whole-hdd/#findComment-324719 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chevelle Posted March 16, 2007 Author Share Posted March 16, 2007 You need to create a partition in disk utility click the partion button on the top and set the number you want and sizes there. The OSX installer is not seeing my whole HDD. Its only seeing 128GB not the whole 149GB (formated). If I hooked it up to the purple port (JMicron) it sees the whole drive, but this is not an option. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45379-install-dvd-not-see-whole-hdd/#findComment-325414 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chevelle Posted March 17, 2007 Author Share Posted March 17, 2007 Ok, did a little bit more testing. Looks like some limitation with ICH8 and the DVD. No matter which drive I hookup to the orange (ICH8) ports, OSX will only read up to 128GB's. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45379-install-dvd-not-see-whole-hdd/#findComment-326022 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thestevo Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 128 GB is a magic number. The problem that you are running into is with LBA. I don't know your board, but I am assuming that it is a hardware limitation or a bug in the way that the OS X installer interacts with your ATA controller chipset. It is possible that it could be a setting in your BIOS that you need to change, although that is doubtful because it should be set properly by default. Depending on your ATA controller, it could be a problem that exists in the installer but not after the OS is installed. In that case you have two options: you can remake the install disc with proper kexts that fixes the problem, or you can make a smaller partition on the 128 that is visible to you and install on that (making another partition after the install to use the rest) Stephen Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45379-install-dvd-not-see-whole-hdd/#findComment-326053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug the Impaler Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 minor thread necro, and I apologize, but I'm having the same issue. I've searched elsewhere online and someone claimed that updating to 10.4.9 fixed it. I'm burning the uphuck 10.4.9 disc now to try and install - will post back if it helps. If nothing else, I have a 120GB SATA drive I can drop in for now. Not ideal, but workable. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45379-install-dvd-not-see-whole-hdd/#findComment-366184 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oracle67 Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 I have this (picture situation) that runs great whatever the Disk Utility says. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45379-install-dvd-not-see-whole-hdd/#findComment-366191 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug the Impaler Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 heh, that's bizarre. Thing is, I just need disk utility to format a FAT32 partition into HFS+. Or to see the other hard drive. I plugged in my 120GB HDD and decided I'd use the whole thing for OS X except that it doesn't see it at all. Of course, it was formatted in a PPC Mac, so maybe i just need to initialize it, but it doesn't show at all on the left. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45379-install-dvd-not-see-whole-hdd/#findComment-366202 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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