Firstborn Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 i am getting the following messange when i am trying to install osx 10.4.8: " IOATAController device blocking bus". i hav a new western hdd. Any help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
errandwolfe Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 Could you please provide the specs of the hardware you are using as well as what distribution of 10.4.8 you are trying to install? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renard45 Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 it's a question of master/slave jumpers i guess try the hard disk drive alone on a sata or ide port also for the dvd burner if it doesn't work test the drives master/slave jumpers and not cable select hope it will help you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
errandwolfe Posted April 26, 2007 Share Posted April 26, 2007 OK...I have two SATA drives (which don't have master/slave jumpers) and a single IDE DVD Burner which is set to master on my single IDE port. So why am I having this problem? It is very odd two, it only happens at boot, and if I reboot a few times it goes away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firstborn Posted April 28, 2007 Author Share Posted April 28, 2007 i was trying to install "jas 10.4.8 amd-intel sse2 sse3". anyway i managed to solve the problem myself. The master/slave settings were causing it. after installing them however i was unable to boot. without the dvd it wouldn't start and with the dvd it just begins again the istallation screen. (Hardware: motherboard/asus p4pe-x cpu/intel p4 2.8ghz hdd/western digital ata graphics card/ge force fx 5200 ram/2x512 ddr333) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurqn Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 I think darwin boot loader doesnt support sata drives , am I right ? coz I installed on sata drive but didnt boot so I bought one ide drive , now working perfect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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