midlandskatecom Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=35985 The ATA/SATA controller for my nForce4... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Easy. You have to have OS X installed and working though. Instructions: * Unzip the ZIP file and extract AppleNForceATA.kext to your Desktop * Open Terminal and run the following commands pressing enter after each one: sudo -s cp -R ~/Desktop/AppleNForceATA.kext /System/Library/Extensions/ diskutil repairPermissions / reboot **** Hope this helps pcwiz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midlandskatecom Posted September 30, 2007 Author Share Posted September 30, 2007 Ah. Okay, I thought it was some fix that would allow me to install to my SATA hard drive. Is there anyway that you know of that i can do this? Maybe through VMware or something? I want to be able to boot os x natively and I haven't had any luck since I have no IDE ports on my computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Why wouldn't you be able to install to a SATA drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midlandskatecom Posted September 30, 2007 Author Share Posted September 30, 2007 as stated in the description for _tubgirl_'s release of osx; "SATA does not work for nForce 410/430, use PATA instead" and i ignored that also and tried booting natively and installing but i don't get any hard drives to install to so i go to the Disk Utility and format and it freezes as it tries to partiton or format a hard disk as long as it's SATA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Oh..too bad. You'll have to install to an IDE (PATA) drive or an external USB drive like I did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midlandskatecom Posted September 30, 2007 Author Share Posted September 30, 2007 Can it be an external SATA or do you not know? And can you boot from USB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 External SATA won't work. Its still SATA. Get an external USB or FireWire drive. I used a USB 2.0 drive which is faster than FireWire 400. Yes, you can boot from USB. You just have to take an extra step. When you're partitioning the USB drive in Disk Utility, click the Options button and select the Master Boot Record option. This installs the Darwin bootloader on the drive so the USB drive is bootable. **IMPORTANT NOTE**: To boot from a USB drive, your computers BIOS has to support booting from USB devices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midlandskatecom Posted September 30, 2007 Author Share Posted September 30, 2007 I believe that mine can because I tried to put OS X on my iPod but I think that the Apple software installed on the iPod's hard drive would over-ride that because whenever I selected it to boot, it wouldn't work, and I was still getting Apple error messages on my iPod so I believe it was just written over. So, external IDE or a usb flash drive? Once it's installed, can't I just install that kext from earlier and move it on to my SATA drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Install it on an external USB drive. Then, once you have OS X working on the external drive, install that kext on the external drive. Then, make a clone of the external drive and clone it onto a SATA drive! Thats my idea.... I'm not sure it'll work but its worth a try.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midlandskatecom Posted September 30, 2007 Author Share Posted September 30, 2007 That's definitely what I'm wanting to do. It also just occured to me that the only reason my SATA drive won't work is because the nForce4 chipset is not supported by any AMD Mac OS images (that much I knew...) but, couldn't I still install to a SATA external because my usb is supported, and SATA is also supported, just not internally on my motherboard...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 SATA internal or SATA external, its still SATA. Get a external USB Drive. USB Drives are PATA (IDE) which you can install to. Ya get me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midlandskatecom Posted October 1, 2007 Author Share Posted October 1, 2007 An external hard drive would work too though right? It's easier if I just get an IDE external enclosure to put my existing PATA drive in. Easier in terms of cheaper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 Yes, that would work as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midlandskatecom Posted October 1, 2007 Author Share Posted October 1, 2007 I think as an "early birthday present" I'll have my dad order one tonight off of eBay. I'll let you know what happens by the end of the week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 Please don't order one from eBay. Buy it from a store with a good return policy so you can return it if possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midlandskatecom Posted October 1, 2007 Author Share Posted October 1, 2007 Well, 20 bucks off eBay is fine with me, and I've got use for it even if the OS doesn't work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 OK, if its fine with you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midlandskatecom Posted October 2, 2007 Author Share Posted October 2, 2007 Ordered an external 3.5 IDE enclosure for $20 bucks from a local computer store, they said it would be in later this week. I'm excited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 Good, tell me when you have everything set up to begin installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midlandskatecom Posted October 3, 2007 Author Share Posted October 3, 2007 Will-do, I'm already extremely excited for the part to come in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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