jdsmith2816 Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 Greetings: I am ordering the rest of my parts for a new hackint0sh build and am curious about sata dvd burners. I am going with the Big Bad Axe board with a q6600, a 150GB SATA WD Raptor, and two WD 500GB sata drives in raid-1 and four gigs of corsair ram.. The question is, will a SATA dvd burner be recognized/work proplery by OSX or should I stick with an IDE one? Best regards, JD Smith Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58887-sata-dvd-burners/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyhighmac Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 I have a sata drive, and it is fully recognized, though I don't have your board, it should work. Also, a lot of people are having problems with 4GB of RAM. Don't know if there is a workaround yet, but that's just a heads up. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58887-sata-dvd-burners/#findComment-419896 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney3K Posted August 3, 2007 Share Posted August 3, 2007 The 4GB problem may occur on certain processors (pre-Presler) which do not support EM64T yet and hence, boot the kernel in 32-bit mode. On my T7300, I get a neat "64-bit enabled" message on boot meaning I can run 64-bit apps as well ;-) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58887-sata-dvd-burners/#findComment-419921 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdsmith2816 Posted August 3, 2007 Author Share Posted August 3, 2007 Hmm, does the q6600 (kentsfield) suffer from that problem? It's one of the semi-new quad cores. Also, any clue about the SATA dvd burner? Best regards, JD Smith Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58887-sata-dvd-burners/#findComment-419926 Share on other sites More sharing options...
btk Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 I have a SATA burner in my AMD system and I didin't have any problems with it at all when I installed osx86. My discs boot fine and I never had an issue with osx, windows, or linux. And I don't know much about the new Intel chips, but try running CPU-Z or SIW, both windows apps, and it should tell you some info about your processor, look for EM64T, as Stoney was saying. Hope you get your new rig running smoothly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58887-sata-dvd-burners/#findComment-421043 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdsmith2816 Posted August 5, 2007 Author Share Posted August 5, 2007 That's what I needed to know, thanks! My chip also supports EM64T so it looks like I'm in the clear. Best regards, JD Smith Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58887-sata-dvd-burners/#findComment-421107 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted August 5, 2007 Share Posted August 5, 2007 I have a Kentsfield chip in my setup on the Bad Axe 2 board and it has no problem with the 4gb of ram. I tried that same chip on Gigabyte p965 q6 board and it would only show 3.5gb. I have 2 ide burners installed on my board so I can't tell you about SATA burners. Good luck. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58887-sata-dvd-burners/#findComment-421163 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EtherealRemnant Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 The Bad Axe 2 is truly the perfect board for OS X. Everything works flawlessly once you get the audio driver (the only issue I had). Why get a SATA DVD burner with this box? It doesn't make sense to pay the extra cash. Oh and all Core 2 Duo/Core 2 Quad chips have EM64T but the support is broken in certain versions of boards by other manufacturers. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/58887-sata-dvd-burners/#findComment-421364 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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