suresh5star Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 Friends, I got MAC OS X 10.4.8[JaS AMD-Intel-SSE2-SSE3 with PPF1]... Im not able to install on my SATA Hard disk.... Whn I select Disk Utilities its not showing th Hard disk....Plz tell me how can I install MAC on my SATA... I have gone through th previous threads regarding SATA but didnt understand th things.... Plz help me to install MAC on my SATA..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLitsx Posted June 14, 2007 Share Posted June 14, 2007 To the best of my knowledge you can not install mac onto SATA... SATA2 only.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-aKy- Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 ofcourse you can install osx onto sata but it depends on your chipset, some are not supported to do a native install yet. so would be interesting wich chipset your mainboard has. Nforce4 for example is problematic. Or get a cheap IDE HDD for osx and you will be fine. Cheers, aKy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nykwil Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 check your bios. some motherboards have a setting that let your sata drives run and be detected as IDE drives. I know my gigabyte 965p-DQ6 lets me do that. Install it in IDE mode and when you're done you can switch it back to SATA mode. no need to buy a different drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-aKy- Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 ASUS A8N-SLI: could it be this setting? Doesn't seem so, so i'll just ask you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nykwil Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 ASUS A8N-SLI: could it be this setting? Doesn't seem so, so i'll just ask you no thats not it i looked over you motherboard's manual I dont think you have the setting im talkin about On my system it's called "Onboard Sata/IDE Device : and you can select from IDE, AHCI, and RAID/IDE i select IDE when installing. Also there's a setting called SATA Port 0-3 Native mode: Enabled = IDE mode, Disabled = IDE legacy mode...I enable it when installing just to be safe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-aKy- Posted June 15, 2007 Share Posted June 15, 2007 Ok, thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suresh5star Posted June 15, 2007 Author Share Posted June 15, 2007 Friends Thx 4 ur replies.... My Motherboard is Intel D101GGC... I got a P-ATA HD frm my friend it is detectable... But still my SATA is not detecting.... I checked BIOS, IDE is enable..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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