Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 (ICH9R) based Hackintosh

[empire29]

Interesting bit of information.

 

I have a SATA DVD Drive and SATA HDD Drive, thus i my SATA Controllers to run in AHCI mode.

Doing this, "randomly" my SATA drives would not be detected at boot up -- the AHCI SATA Detection process could not find/verify my SATA devices, and causing overall system instability.

 

I contacted Gigabyte support about this issue and they replied with:

 

To run a stable system with you SATA HDDs running in AHCI mode, you must:

 

Hook your SATA HDDs up to the Orange Intel ICH9 SATA Controllers and in the BIOS set:

Intergrated peripherals > SATA RAID/AHCI Mode: AHCI

 

Hook your SATA Optical Drives up to the Purple JMicron/GSata Controllers and in the BIOS set:

Intergrated peripherals > Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode: IDE

 

 

I believe this is the case on all motherboards, but Gigabyte confirmed this to be the case on the GA-P35-DS4 rev2.0.

 

Last night I set my Jmicron SATA Controller to IDE mode in the BIOS (Intergrated peripherals > Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode: IDE) plugged my SATA DVD drives into them and booted into OSX -- OSX did not detected the drives. When i switched the Jmicron SATA Controller back to AHCI, OSX detected the drivers without a problem.

 

Does anyone know if OSX supports the Jmicron SATA Controller (SATA ports, rather than the PATA port) running in IDE mode? Is there a patch for this? Even if i am able to get my SATA DVD drives to be consistently detcted while their controller is operating in AHCI mode, I really dont like that the manufacturer does not support this -- especially when i was experiencing system instability before because of it.

[empire29]

So i would assume that all the orange ports are available for use once the OS is loaded?

 

I am able to use all 6 of my Orange Intel ICH9R ports.

[karaakeha1]

Sleep working GA P35 DS4 rev 2.0

 

I installed XxX 10.4.10 ppf1 it did wake up from sleep

after sudo -s

pmset -a hibernatemode 3

sleep works perfectly

 

and with jas 10.4.8 and Koolkal 10.4.10 update sleep works any way without above terminal command

[empire29]

Sleep working GA P35 DS4 rev 2.0

 

I installed XxX 10.4.10 ppf1 it did wake up from sleep

after sudo -s

pmset -a hibernatemode 3

sleep works perfectly

 

and with jas 10.4.8 and Koolkal 10.4.10 update sleep works any way without above terminal command

 

What BIOS version are you using? I just did a fresh JAS 10.4.8 SSE2/SSE3 w PFF1&PPF2 > KoolKal 10.4.10 update and i still cant sleep in S3 mode. I am running the F5 Bios though. I am trying to figure out how i can update the bios without having a working windows install. Think ill just end up installing WinXP tonight.

 

Update: I tried your pmset command on my JAS 10.4.8 > KoolKal 10.4.10 install and S3 sleep still does not wake up. I will let you know what happens after i install the F7 BIOS.

[karaakeha1]

I have F7 Bios and you can put the Bios update file on any usb drive and can update the bios

[empire29]

I have F7 Bios and you can put the Bios update file on any usb drive and can update the bios

 

I was able to update to Bios F7 (you can store the BIOS on a FAT32 partition and the Q-Flash program in the BIOS will read it -- very cool!!)

 

After updating i am unable to boot into OSX86 if i have the Purple Jmicron SATA drives running in AHCI mode (I had my DVD drives connected in this way). I moved them to the ICH9R controller and set the JMicron Controller to run in IDE mode and was able to boot.

Even with the F7 BIOS I am still unable to wake from S3 Sleep using JAS 10.4.8 > KoolKal 10.4.10.

[build]

Just to let you all know. I have got Leopard running on my P35-DS4 rig in the sig. Thread here

[starwie]

hi guys could you give me a hint what i could do i have tried your tips but cant continue my installation i have posted 2 pictures in the following thread

 

http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?sho...t=0#entry501614

 

 

[empire29]

Last night I set my Jmicron SATA Controller to IDE mode in the BIOS (Intergrated peripherals > Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode: IDE) plugged my SATA DVD drives into them and booted into OSX -- OSX did not detected the drives. When i switched the Jmicron SATA Controller back to AHCI, OSX detected the drivers without a problem.

 

Does anyone know if OSX supports the Jmicron SATA Controller (SATA ports, rather than the PATA port) running in IDE mode? Is there a patch for this? Even if i am able to get my SATA DVD drives to be consistently detcted while their controller is operating in AHCI mode, I really dont like that the manufacturer does not support this -- especially when i was experiencing system instability before because of it.

 

Another update - I am now running my Jmicron (purple) sata controller in IDE mode with my DVD drives hooked up to it and it is being recognized by OS X. I am not had any issues with the AHCI bios not detecting my drives either. (I think this may have been specific to my Lite-on drive -- i got a SATA Samsung drive and im running it in AHCI on the ICH9 Sata ports without issue.

[phreakazoidz]

Dear all

if i set my bios like this

 

BIOS Settings:

SATA RAID/AHCI Mode: AHCI

SATA Port 0-3 Native Mode: Enabled

Onboard SATA/IDE Device: Enabled

Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode: AHCI

ACPI Suspend Type: S3 (STR)

 

i got error Kernel panic Why?

 

if i set my bios to fail safe , i can install OSx86 to my computer why..??

 

GA P35-DS4 | E4300 | 7300GT | 2 IDE HDD | 2 SATA HDD | Pioneer SATA|

 

 

Thanks

[Geysa]

I understand why it works better with a western digital disk:

 

but in imac it's WD disk:

 

 

WDC WD2500JS-40TGB0 :

 

Capacité : 232.89 Go

Modèle : WDC WD2500JS-40TGB0

Révision : 20.06C04

Numéro de série : WD-WCANY1543431

NCQ (Native Command Queuing) : Oui

Profondeur de la file d'attente : 32

Support amovible : Non

Disque amovible : Non

Nom BSD : disk0

Gestionnaires OS9 : Non

État S.M.A.R.T. : Vérifié

 

Xbench test:

 

Results 66.76

System Info

Xbench Version 1.3

System Version 10.4.10 (8R2218)

Physical RAM 1024 MB

Model iMac5,1

Drive Type WDC WD2500JS-40TGB0

Disk Test 66.76

Sequential 93.34

Uncached Write 96.46 59.23 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 95.44 54.00 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 78.04 22.84 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 108.75 54.66 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 51.97

Uncached Write 19.89 2.11 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 120.94 38.72 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 90.98 0.64 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 134.30 24.92 MB/sec [256K blocks]

[phreakazoidz]

why my IDE HDD cant detect after i change my bios to AHCI mode..??

[FavleX]

Hi Folks,

 

anyone here with a DS4 with ACPI fully working.

I mean sleep and shutdown restart correctly working with vanilla or patched kernel?

 

[karaakeha1]

Hi Folks,

 

anyone here with a DS4 with ACPI fully working.

I mean sleep and shutdown restart correctly working with vanilla or patched kernel?

 

 

Check out my guide in signature ,Sleep Restart working

[knobi]

hello. I did exactly like what you did but i used a SATA hard drive and a IDE DVD drive. When i boot up, i get system/plist file not found. If i just leave things like normal non ACHI, i can get into the install part but when i reboot after i finish installing, i get either waiting for root device or i get window/app/login hang message......*sigh*

 

Does this mean that i need to purchase a SATA dvd drive?

 

Ta