quickslvr1287 Posted February 6, 2006 Share Posted February 6, 2006 just installed OS X today on my zv6000 laptop and installed the SSE2 patch so i can run itunes and such... i would appriciate it if some of the people on the forums would give me some simple instructions on how make my hard drive read times faster and be able to use my wireless internet and my CD/DVD burner im very new at this so some simple instructions would be very much appriciated please let me know if you need any additional information Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8615-help-appriciated/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Bear Helms Posted February 6, 2006 Share Posted February 6, 2006 OSx86 makes assumptions about DVD burners (as well as DVD playback). Not every burner (or player) under the sun has been made to work with it. Read the HCL (hardware compatibility listing) for 10.4 (or earlier OS X releases) on the Wiki you see linked in my signature below. Wireless internet adapters are more incompatible than compatible with OSx86. Again the HCL will indicate what few wireless adapters have been seen as AirPort equivalents. NB: Most of these are PCI cards - I don't know of a USB wireless that is working worth beans atm. There may be PCMCIA (PC Card) wireless adapters that do work, but if the wireless is built into the notebook, your only recourse is to discover whether the notebook is listed, or at least what wireless chipset it sports, and see if the HCL has any information about getting the wireless working. Hard drive access on laptop drives IS slow in OS X 86. I should know - I have a Mac Mini which uses a 2.5" internal ATA IDE hard drive as its main system volume. An external Firewire 400 hard drive is faster than that. There probably is NO means to improve hard disk performance there. But again, the Wiki is your friend, because in there are some pointers on accelerating OS X. Encyclopaediae are bulky and confusing, admittedly. But at least this one does have a search option, and the front page actually has most of the links you're looking for - installing, hardware compatibility, tips and tricks, speedups. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8615-help-appriciated/#findComment-53546 Share on other sites More sharing options...
quickslvr1287 Posted February 6, 2006 Author Share Posted February 6, 2006 http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=1173 Quoted from the thread: Scousi's ati kext activates the secondary IDE controller so you can use the cd/dvd drive. It also speeds up hard drive reads by a about a factor of 3x. Hard drive writing is as slow as the generic driver (0.35 meg sec). does anyone know how to find and install scousi's ati kext??? help would be appriciated again Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8615-help-appriciated/#findComment-53558 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevermind1331 Posted February 9, 2006 Share Posted February 9, 2006 use patchburn to enable the burner, google it, itll get it recognized in other programs. i have the pavillion zv6000 as well, its amazing once you use scousis fix good luck sorry, to replace it, download his appleonboardata.kext and put it in system\library\extensions, instructions are in the thread but thats the main part Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/8615-help-appriciated/#findComment-54683 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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