CyCLoBoT Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 I finished installing MAC OS x86 (JaS DVD) and everything is up and running smoothly. Now I have a secondary SATA drive where I have stored my documents and such and would just like to know how do I get that drive to recognize in the OS? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46261-sata-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zulu.Walker Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 Attach it to the SATA port? Format it with HFS+? I hope you'd ask your question with some info on the device and how it doesn't work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46261-sata-drive/#findComment-331099 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyCLoBoT Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share Posted March 24, 2007 I have installed Mac on a separate hard drive than my Windows (I switch cables between two drives to run either OS but SATA drive is always connected). The SATA drive is already plugged and all I know is that its a Western Digital 320Gb SATA drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46261-sata-drive/#findComment-331100 Share on other sites More sharing options...
legolas2k3 Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 I am running into the same problem, I think... I have an Nforce4 motherboard and have an SATA drive with Vista installed on it and running fine. I can dual boot to Vista and OSX 10.4.8 no problem with BCD, and I have a FAT32 partition on my SATA drive that I want to used to share data between both OS's. Unfortunately, OSX tells me that I don't have an SATA drive installed, however it is and does work since I can boot into Vista no problem. When I was installing OSX I could see the SATA drive in the disk utility, so I know OSX can use my SATA drive. In short I am baffled. Is it a kext problem? Can someone help me in diagnosing this? I am very PC literate and moderately Linux literate, but I am new to OSX so any help would be greatly appreciated. I am using MAC OSX 10.4.8 JAS AMD/Intel SSE2/3 with PPF1. The install went fine other than I had to disable USB until I can get a USB keyboard to go with my USB mouse. That aside things are running well. If anyone can help out that would be awesome. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46261-sata-drive/#findComment-334646 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarathu Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 I also have the same problem. Where are the SATA drivers? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46261-sata-drive/#findComment-336004 Share on other sites More sharing options...
legolas2k3 Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 I found the kext that I needed for Nforce4 SATA drives here: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=35985 And got the info I needed to install it here, minus the spelling error on Extensions: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...ow+to+load+kext In short, download the file AppleNForceATA.kext.zip from the first link, extract and copy the AppleNForceATA.kext file with Finder from where you extracted it and paste it into to your /System/Library/Extensions folder. Then you need to change ownership of the new kext. To do this open a terminal use the command 'sudo -s' and your password. Then 'cd /System/Library/Extensions'. Once in that directory use 'chown -R root:wheel AppleNForceATA.kext' and 'chmod -R 755 AppleNForceATA.kext'. That will set the permissions. Now in Finder again go to /System/Library and delete the files Extensions.kext and Extensions.mkext. (When typing the commands in terminal don't type the quotes) Lastly, open DiskUtility and click on your partition and do a Repair Permissions. Now just reboot. It loaded fine the first boot, but on my reboot I had to delete the Extensions.kext and Extensions.mkext files again and reboot as the kext refused to load. I haven't rebooted again since to see if it was a fluke that it stopped loading or if it is a bug. Either way for as often as I reboot my OSX I don't mind if I have to delete the Extensions.kext and Extensions.mkext files to get access to my SATA drive as it is used for storage not as my OS drive. I'll test it a lot before I trust the new kext to load each time to use my faster SATA drive to boot OSX. BTW.. If anyone has a solution to the not loading kext file feel free to reply. I will in the meantime search this site for help, but a reply would sure speed things up with the amount of message threads on this site! Hope that helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46261-sata-drive/#findComment-336764 Share on other sites More sharing options...
legolas2k3 Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 The Missing Link: I solved my problem with my "System extension cannot be used". It is pretty simple actually, I just missed an important step when changing the rights to the directory. When you chown the directory you must use the -R switch to change the subdirectories and their files as per the helpful thread: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...+cannot+be+used If you followed my previous post and have rebooted do all of the following. If you are doing this for the first time and have already deleted your Extensions.kext and Extensions.mkext and haven't rebooted yet skip step 6 that says to delete them as you won't find them 1. Go to terminal 2. Type "sudo -s" 3. Enter your password 4. Type "chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/AppleNForceATA.kext" 5. Type "chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/AppleNForceATA.kext" 6. Delete your kext cache 7. Using disk utility repair permissions for good measure 8. Reboot Remember the -R on both the chown and chmod commands as that is the critical step that I forgot. And I know better too. BTW... If anyone reads this and it helped feel free to reply and let me know that I am not just wasting time and typing to myself. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46261-sata-drive/#findComment-338825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinchengxm Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 hello everyone! I have a nforce550 and sata HD ,how can I do for insatall mac osx? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46261-sata-drive/#findComment-338907 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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