zapzupnz Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 I'm probably going to get flamed at and told to rtfm or stfw or something, but after weeks and weeks of reading, I'm kind of bored of reading the same tutorials on the wiki over and over expecting different results. I've got a Compaq Presario F500 series laptop and the JaS DVD AMD/Intel thing and as far as I remember the southbridge is an nForce thinger of some description. the disks are SATA i think. anyway, I've seen people with this problem before. All the threads I've read so far deal with problems with SATA AFTER install. This is no good to me because I can't install if the disk isn't getting detected. Thus I can't pick a destination and move on to the next step. I've seen a lot of people offering solutions for nForce drivers and such, patches etc, editing kexts and all this sort of carry on. Except that these threads and pages expect you to already know what to do before you've learned that you need to do it. "It's the weird colour scheme which freaks me out. When you press one of these black buttons, a little black light on a black background lights up black to let you know you've done it. What is this? Some kind of intergalactic hyperhearse?" Telling me to edit a kext is fine, except I don't know if they mean something on the dvd or something post-installation or something about a chocolate bar melting on a windowsill... I've read things saying that SATA users might get a bit of lolly if they install osx86 in VMWare and then copy the machine's image to the disk itself or some such thing hoo hah. I was going to give it a go, but if it doesn't work, we'll I'll have reinstalled Windows for nothing. These guides don't say much for the nForce chipset users. So if someone could just reassure me and give me a little hug and tell me it works, that'd be much appreciated. But I'd much rather install it natively, if at all possible. If not, might be VMware. and if all else fails, I'm going to have the coolest and most functional frisbee you've ever seen!! Thanks for your help.. (by the way, my lappy doesn't have any OS installed right now so it's not like I can go grab the specs. I've got a restore disk for windows vista and a kubuntu 6.10 cd... but I don't really want to keep running around in circles trying to make them work, let alone osx86) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45893-nforce-i-think-sata-disks-and-jas-dvd-on-a-laptop/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
zapzupnz Posted March 22, 2007 Author Share Posted March 22, 2007 nobody able to give me even a little clue?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45893-nforce-i-think-sata-disks-and-jas-dvd-on-a-laptop/#findComment-329711 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jleal Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 I've had the same problem and i think it was solved after using jas 10.4.8 AMD-intel SSE2-SSE3 PPF1 + defiantdiskutils.7 + blacksoulnForcepacth Did you try with a patched version of jas 10.4.8 also? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45893-nforce-i-think-sata-disks-and-jas-dvd-on-a-laptop/#findComment-329819 Share on other sites More sharing options...
applenoob Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 I'm having the same problem on a hp dv9000<br /><br />I am trying to install 10.4.3 8F1111A Patched Jas v4.2b and it doesn't detect the SATA drives? At first I thought it was because i didn't actually make a partition for it, but then I went back and made the unallocated space fat32 but it doesnt even see the drives?<br /><br />Is there another version I should try? I'm trying to get 10.4.8 PPF1 now jleal, how do I go about using defiantdiskutils.7 + blacksoulnForcepacth? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45893-nforce-i-think-sata-disks-and-jas-dvd-on-a-laptop/#findComment-329914 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zapzupnz Posted March 22, 2007 Author Share Posted March 22, 2007 Where would I obtain said patch? Perhaps I'm asking obvious questions, but I always find forum and wiki navigation a bit daunting :-) @ Jleal: I just downloaded one called JaS something something 10.4.8 something SSE2 SSE3 Intel and AMD. not sure if it had a patch, and I can't check the iso filename because my hard disk got a bit... departitionified. lol. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45893-nforce-i-think-sata-disks-and-jas-dvd-on-a-laptop/#findComment-330096 Share on other sites More sharing options...
applenoob Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 jryfle, I got the 10.4.8 w/ ppf1 which sounds like what you have and it worked great! saw the sata drives and everything went smooth. Hopefully you'll have the same experience. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45893-nforce-i-think-sata-disks-and-jas-dvd-on-a-laptop/#findComment-333284 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajr Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Hi! This post helped me figure out my SATA woes, towards the end of the thread there's a few patches which may help. I haven't tried the ppfs as I had a PATA drive to install to, the SATA driver works like a charm on my Asus A8N-SLI but that's post install like you mentioned! Good luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45893-nforce-i-think-sata-disks-and-jas-dvd-on-a-laptop/#findComment-333514 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zapzupnz Posted March 28, 2007 Author Share Posted March 28, 2007 applenoob: if I can find where to get the ppf, yeah ajr: thanks for the link, i'll try it when my laptop gets back from repairs lol Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/45893-nforce-i-think-sata-disks-and-jas-dvd-on-a-laptop/#findComment-334336 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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