discorocker Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I just dropped the two AHCI files into my extensions folder, fixed permissions, rebooted, turned on AHCI in my BIOS, and voilà, Mac OS X support S-ATA natively on my Intel D945GTP Board. Hooray! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
enb14 Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Can you try to drop all kexts including AppleEFI just to make sure that OSX will load on your board, I've tryied it but I received an error message Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-43375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
discorocker Posted January 17, 2006 Author Share Posted January 17, 2006 You can't use all kexts. Some are kernel dependent. But I'm pretty sure my board boots with the EFI kext. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-43382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Is that really new? I have SATA working just fine in 10.4.3 on my 945G system. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-43383 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scousi Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I just dropped the two AHCI files into my extensions folder, fixed permissions, rebooted, turned on AHCI in my BIOS, and voilà, Mac OS X support S-ATA natively on my Intel D945GTP Board. Hooray! Are you supposed to get a much hihger performance with AHCI as opposed to pseudo emulation? Did you try the xBench disks tests? Mine doesn't boot with AHCI but I would like to try. I just don't want to destabilize something that works OK right now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-43387 Share on other sites More sharing options...
discorocker Posted January 17, 2006 Author Share Posted January 17, 2006 cyrana: you are running your S-ATA controller in emulated P-ATA mode. AHCI ist native S-ATA mode on Intel hardware. scousi: I haven't tried xBench tests. As for stability, I haven't seen any problems yet. If you do find problems, just switch the BIOS back to Emulated P-ATA, then the AHCI extensions don't load and you can remove them. The files you need are AppleAHCIPort.kext and IOAHCIFamily.kext Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-43393 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 But I'm pretty sure my board boots with the EFI kext. Do you mean the AppleEFIRuntime.kext that has been reported to fail to load? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-43395 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 (edited) Post your boot log, please. It will help answer our questions. Edited January 17, 2006 by cyrana Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-43399 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbettcher Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I can confirm this as well, AHCI works. It's weird though the harddrive isn't listed anywhere in System Profiler now. Onto trying the EFI kexts. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-43482 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pion Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 damn can't test ahci. my new 945G board doesnt have option to select AHCI. my old 925xe has the ahci option tho. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-43488 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbettcher Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 The EFI kext doesn't load here. It displayed clear as day when I booted in verbose mode. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-43491 Share on other sites More sharing options...
johan Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 edit.. ignore Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-43493 Share on other sites More sharing options...
discorocker Posted January 17, 2006 Author Share Posted January 17, 2006 To make things clear: The EFI extension fails to load on my system (as it should as there is no EFI) but it does not prevent the system from booting normaly. Also, I'd rather not post my boot log for privacy reasons. According to Intel my Board should be EFI compatible. Does anyone know where I can get the corresponding update to enable EFI on my hardware? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-43563 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 (edited) There is nothing private in the boot log, aside from maybe your IP, which you could remove... lol. You can't 'enable EFI'. You have BIOS on your system. If Intel ever provided a BIOS to EFI flash utility and provided you with the EFI image you could. Here is some info though, maybe you can execute EFI files somehow due to this 'support': ftp://download.intel.com/technology/efi/d...xt/EfiHowTo.txt Edited January 17, 2006 by cyrana Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-43614 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjtd Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Greets. Nforce4-Ultra also supports AHCI, and AHCI is just like a standard for accessing SATA controller. So probably it will be possible to load AHCI drivers on NFORCE, with small changes (info.plist). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-43705 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scousi Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 cyrana: you are running your S-ATA controller in emulated P-ATA mode. AHCI ist native S-ATA mode on Intel hardware. scousi: I haven't tried xBench tests. As for stability, I haven't seen any problems yet. If you do find problems, just switch the BIOS back to Emulated P-ATA, then the AHCI extensions don't load and you can remove them. The files you need are AppleAHCIPort.kext and IOAHCIFamily.kext Does not work for me. I get the "you must restart bla bla" in different lanugiages message. Did repair permissions and clear kextcache. I can only run in IDE emulation for S-ATA. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-43790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I have mine running in 'enhanced' mode or whatever in BIOS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-43791 Share on other sites More sharing options...
scousi Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 I'm running enhanced IDE but not S-ATA AHCI. S-ATA are running as IDE. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-43795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted January 17, 2006 Share Posted January 17, 2006 Ahh ok, I see the difference I think. Not on that PC now so I can't remember the other options. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-43796 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 damn can't test ahci. my new 945G board doesnt have option to select AHCI.my old 925xe has the ahci option tho. I am getting a 945G, what is the story with this? Doesn't this board support AHCI or what? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-44118 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 (edited) x Edited January 23, 2006 by bofors Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-44124 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbettcher Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 There is a 4mb Flash Rom on the system for either a BIOS or EFI. We'll have to wait for a flashing tool. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-44142 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted January 18, 2006 Share Posted January 18, 2006 (edited) x Edited January 23, 2006 by bofors Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-44319 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bofors Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 I am trying to enable AHCI on my box to natively support my SATA drives, but seem to be having a problem. Here is what I did: (1) Copy AppleAHCIPort.kext and IOAHCIFamily.kext (10.4.4) to /System/Library/Extensions (2) sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions sudo chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions sudo kextcache -k /System/Library/Extensions (3) reboot and set AHCI (instead of IDE) in my BIOS Results: (A ) I get to the "grey Apple with spinning progress indicator" screen and apparently nothing more. It let it go for about two minutes with no indicated hard disk activity. (B ) Reseting the BIOS to IDE does not change the results. Am I missing something?. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-46774 Share on other sites More sharing options...
discorocker Posted January 23, 2006 Author Share Posted January 23, 2006 (edited) I'm surprised the AHCI kexts don't work for some people with Intel 945 boards. I used build Mac OS X Build 1111A, I'm also running the latest BIOS for my board (D945GTP BIOS from 1.9.2006). My hard drive is a S-ATA II capable Western Digital WD2500JS. The only thing people are doing differently is rebuilding the kext cache. I never rebuild my kext cache, it's not needed since Mac OS 10.2 because the system does it automatically. But that shouldn't make a difference... bofors: Boot in verboose mode, too see where the boot process hangs. Edited January 23, 2006 by discorocker Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6995-ahci-works-on-intel-boards-with-new-1044-kext/#findComment-46859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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