greeze Posted August 21, 2005 Author Share Posted August 21, 2005 Thanks greeze for your guide. Please can anyone take a look if i need the fix or not. It should be alright but i'm not sure. Disk Test 37.51 Looks all right to me. My score was 5. I think you're okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbienewbie Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 Looks all right to me. My score was 5. I think you're okay. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks greeze! I've been wondering which numbers you refered to. And for the 4kb blocks speed they're just 1.19mb/s and 0.60mb/s. Is that normal or good enough? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greeze Posted August 21, 2005 Author Share Posted August 21, 2005 Thanks greeze! I've been wondering which numbers you refered to. And for the 4kb blocks speed they're just 1.19mb/s and 0.60mb/s. Is that normal or good enough? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think that's normal and good enough. I've been reading that reads/writes under the Random disk test are pretty slow. When I get home tonight, I'll post my before/after scores so people can get a general idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matiseijas Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 Why is it that I keep aplying this "patch" and my hard disk speed doesn't improve? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greeze Posted August 22, 2005 Author Share Posted August 22, 2005 Why is it that I keep aplying this "patch" and my hard disk speed doesn't improve? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I dunno. What kind of speeds are you getting currently? Also, someone earlier in the thread mentioned that booting with platform=x86pc disables it on his machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matiseijas Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 I'm not booting with platform=x86pc, and my speeds are around 2 MB/sec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greeze Posted August 22, 2005 Author Share Posted August 22, 2005 I'm not booting with platform=x86pc, and my speeds are around 2 MB/sec <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm not sure. Do you have an Intel chipset? Are you using both kexts from the first post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matiseijas Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 Yes, I'm using both kext from the first post. But I'm not running on an Intel chipset though. Is this patch only suitable for Intel chipset motherboards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaleph Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 Nice, i've just busted my osx install messing around the ioata kext Oh well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greeze Posted August 22, 2005 Author Share Posted August 22, 2005 Yes, I'm using both kext from the first post. But I'm not running on an Intel chipset though. Is this patch only suitable for Intel chipset motherboards? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Probably. Since it relies on an Intel kext, it's possible that Tiger never loads it for you. I should probably update the first post with that info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greeze Posted August 22, 2005 Author Share Posted August 22, 2005 Nice, i've just busted my osx install messing around the ioata kext Oh well... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Try booting into single-user or safe mode and put your original files back where they were. If that doesn't work, try booting with a Darwin install CD and do it from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stelriah Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 this patch is great, but i noticed that after i installed it, the official bit torrent client would crash after being open for about a min. didnt have this problem before. any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gecko Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 I have a Asus P4C800 mobo currently. I didn't need to apply this patch. xbench gave me a score of 61.45 without me doing anything. btw.... i have a WD36 gig 10,000 RPM drive running this atm The mobo i have works flawless minus needing drivers for the video card. Tomorrow I'll have a i915 w/GMA900. I'm excited to see QE in action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xerid Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 I removed the AppleI386GenericPlatform.kext to force the kernel to look for more specific hardware. The AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext is now loaded and everything is flying. My xbench went from an overall 22 to an overall 35. The disk score went from 5 to 22. Thanks for the find. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What is a *.dmg file, and how do I use it. I'm doing this by copying stuff over from my windows box cause my router is down. Also, how do I find out if my osx install is using AppleI386GenericPlatform or AppleIntelPIIXATA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satmos Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 Can somehow pop madcows file back up as the links dead. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iradeon Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 Well I've tried everything in this thread but my disk still shows 2MB transfers. I am pretty sure I have an Intel chipset, whats the easiest way to find out? EDIT: Well I found that I don't have an Intel chipset...so is there anyway to get this over to non-Intel chipsets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xghd Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 cool!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 I thought ICH4-6 were the only 'real' supported chipsets for this stuff, although since some people got SATA working on NForce3 (and 4?), they may be as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 I thought ICH4-6 were the only 'real' supported chipsets for this stuff, although since some people got SATA working on NForce3 (and 4?), they may be as well. Who? kext for nVidia has only PATA driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 Who? kext for nVidia has only PATA driver. Ahh, thanks. <_ i had just seen it mentioned working didn know if was pata or sata... mentioning since you see people with about a dozen different chipsets complaining when only handful have chance in hell. src="%7B___base_url___%7D/uploads/emoticons/default_smile.png" alt=":)"> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youbecha Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 I made sure these steps were done (and they show running) AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext IOATAFamily.kext deleted these /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache /System/Library/Extensions.mkext and deleted the Generic Intel one. My numbers doubled for the HD test, and everthing else improved dramatically...but my HD speeds are still no where near what I saw here. How do I go about trouble shooting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iradeon Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 I have a Toshiba A75-S1253 Satellite Laptop, I THINK it uses a NorthBridge or SouthBridge chipset, the info is fuzzy. Anyway of getting this ported? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwestpha Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 Um hate to point out but the cp command used in such a way in improper and will fail. a .kext is simply a directory continaing files and a directory stucture for kernel extentions. So would the -R modifyer fix this problem or is there a better way to do it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 ditto can do the same as cp -Rp, including the resource fork. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwestpha Posted August 28, 2005 Share Posted August 28, 2005 Well his instructions werent given using ditto. they were using plain old cp command. You realy should add cp -RLv just to make sure everything goes right. Atleast thats what I use to copy around kexts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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