fx600 Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 So, anybody managed to get hotplug work on SATA in your hackintosh? The whole information on SATA/eSATA is a total mess Currently, 10.4.8 JaS, 8.8.1 kernel, ICH7DH southbridge (Asus P5LD2-VM DH) booting just fine in AHCI mode, but: when I plug-in a drive into the hotswap rack, it powers up but doesn't get even seen by the system. When I restart with the drive still inside, it gets recognised well. Hmm... Tried few different SATA drives, no change. Edited IOAHCIFamily kexts "Physical interconnect location" from "Internal" to "External", all I got was cosmetic change of the drive icons Read the forums all over and again, couldn't find much definite answer. Please help, anybody? Thanks, F Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61439-sata-esata-hotplugging/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
fx600 Posted September 20, 2007 Author Share Posted September 20, 2007 *bump* Nobody has any suggestions? :-( Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61439-sata-esata-hotplugging/#findComment-451825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dia3olik Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Bump! I think it's worth investigating too...hot swap it's a very nice thing and an important one too this days!!!!! T. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61439-sata-esata-hotplugging/#findComment-459789 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschultz101 Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 hotplug express card 2 port sata macbook pro compatible , looking for first thing, like to get that working for the laptop, since USB is slow, firewire 400 better, firewire 800 ok, but you'd need a firewire 800, including a port or card on the laptop, and an expensive enclosure,.... after that, you'd need also a card and cable for the desktop, so yes, we'd need hotplug for sata/esata , I've tried with 2 different mobo's , no chance, do have mobile rackmount, but needs reboot,... thinking, that an pci express, addon card, with 2 esata ports, with a silicon chipset, might be the ticket, if the drivers are bound into the kernel, and the pci card can send in interupt, it should make it available, while the ICH7, ICH8, etc, in the mobo, are buildin, and using a the kernel kext only, anybody with a mac pro with an esata 2 port card has it working ? some of the 4 port cards are wicked expensive,... but than again, I got 2.3TB and to have everything on firewire 800, be expensive,.... first I'd want my laptop to have firewire 800, then 2 port sata, might want to get an pci express , cardbus adapter for the desktop, for testing, so I don't have to reinvent the wheel,... guess at some point , and macbook pro, and mac pro system will do, about 8k,.... outch,... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61439-sata-esata-hotplugging/#findComment-468746 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhai Posted October 11, 2007 Share Posted October 11, 2007 I have e-sata on a couple of "hacks" and never got it to work. I guess the driver is not programmed for that kind of support yet. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61439-sata-esata-hotplugging/#findComment-468771 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschultz101 Posted October 12, 2007 Share Posted October 12, 2007 superhai, was that on motherboard or extra pci express card ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61439-sata-esata-hotplugging/#findComment-469635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhai Posted October 13, 2007 Share Posted October 13, 2007 it was on mb yes. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61439-sata-esata-hotplugging/#findComment-470117 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschultz101 Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 Hurray! hotplug sata works ! sil3132 just got an Rosewill RC-605 2-port esata card, has an sil3132 chipset, and rosewill has mac drivers. tested with esata to sat drive, works, eject, replug,... also got an external OWC quad interface external enclosure,.... works too. next, be looking for an pci-express sil chipset, esata card for my desktop and an express card firewire 800 card , of course , once I get everything working, be replacing it with real apple hardware,... oh, ... won't be able to boot of the expresscard, guess that's ok for now. so let me know, about working pci express esata cards and still have to figure out backup software, for HFS and NTFS tried copycatX, but always give volume not big enough error, on a 80gb partition with 15gb installed, can't backup to 60gb space left,... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61439-sata-esata-hotplugging/#findComment-472930 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschultz101 Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 express card firewire 800 , hotplug works ! just got my IEEE 1394B 800 from APIOTEK works like a charm, have not done any benchmarking ..... next, PCI express Esata card 2-port, anybody ? any reasonable priced 4-port cards ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61439-sata-esata-hotplugging/#findComment-473732 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cloud9 Posted October 19, 2007 Share Posted October 19, 2007 next, PCI express Esata card 2-port, anybody ?any reasonable priced 4-port cards ? 2-port http://www.satasite.com/sonnet-tempo-e2p-esata-pcie-card.htm 4-port http://www.cwol.com/serial-ata/caldigit-4-...ost-adapter.htm Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61439-sata-esata-hotplugging/#findComment-474949 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PM! Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 eSATA PCI Express cards from Silicon Image (Sil 3132) only works on 32 bits archs. I've got one (mine is a Lacie) and it's unfortunatly not working on Leopard. I guess those who made it work just have Tiger. If anyone knows where to find the correct driver for 10.5.x, just post it down. PM Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/61439-sata-esata-hotplugging/#findComment-584234 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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