hotmonkeayc Posted November 3, 2007 Share Posted November 3, 2007 I did a seach but didn't come across anything relevant (eventhough I'm sure it's out there somewhere). I just got my dual boot working (yay). I've got XP and OS X on the same drive. When I boot into OS X I can see my Windows partition just fine. However, I have a secondary SATA drive that is not showing up anywhere (even disk utility). Does anyone know the reason? I'm sure it's something simple. Please help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotmonkeayc Posted November 4, 2007 Author Share Posted November 4, 2007 I'm surprised that nobody knows the answer to this. Anyone?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuuey Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 if it's not in the disk utility, means that there is no driver loaded for it or something, what board are you running? what chipset? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted November 4, 2007 Share Posted November 4, 2007 Is this second drive by any chance connected to a jmicron controller? Known problems but there are some fixes out there. If it's not showing up on disk utility, it could be controller incompatibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotmonkeayc Posted November 6, 2007 Author Share Posted November 6, 2007 Actually I'm just using the on-board SATA controller. I'm using a Dell Dimension E520. I know there's a bunch of people here using this same computer. Is anyone else having problems out there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 If you do a google search for your computer on osx86, there are tons of threads and posts devoted to it. Here's one that might be of some help: http://www.insanelymac.com/lofiversion/index.php/t69382.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotmonkeayc Posted November 6, 2007 Author Share Posted November 6, 2007 Yeah, I've read all of the Dell E520 posts...and I've got Tiger working (audio, video card, wireless, etc), the only thing that isn't working is that drive. It's weird, all of my other SATA devices work (DVD-Burner, primary Hard Drive), it's just that one drive that isn't showing up. Yet if I boot into XP it shows up fine. All of the SATA devices should be running off of the same board/chipset. Any other suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotmonkeayc Posted November 7, 2007 Author Share Posted November 7, 2007 Ok, after doing some more investigating I've determined that it's only the later SATA devices that aren't showing up. Here's my configuration: SATA-0: DVD-Burner SATA-1: HDD SATA-2: Not installed SATA-3: Not installed SATA-4: HDD SATA-5: Empty So the one that isn't showing up is the HDD in SATA-4. If I unplug it and put it in SATA-5, same thing. HOWEVER, if I unplug my DVD-Burner (SATA-0) and plug the hard drive in it shows up! So it seems to be a problem with SATA-4/SATA-5. I'm not even sure why the BIOS picks up SATA-2/3 if they don't even exist. Anyone heard of this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhalls Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 It seems you have two s-ata controllers. normally (as i think) a s-ata controller is able to control 4 ports. maybe you mainboard has two controllers but only 2 ports on the board for each controller. and the second controllere isnt supported by osx. just a thought... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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