stony1205 Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Hi all, I'm unfortunate enough to own an NForce 430 mobo with SATA. I know a driver exists, but I'm not comfortable patching the DVD myself and it appears there is no prepatched ISO for AMD users. I've heard that you can replace the SATA drive with an IDE hard drive and have it work just fine. I asked a buddy about this, and he said it cannot be done. Who is right? Can I replace my current SATA drive with a cheap IDE or not? I own an HP Pavilion DV6338se. Thanks for any help. Normally I'd search for it, but it appears the search function is broken right now. ~ Stony Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/89506-replacing-sata-with-ide/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
agent-squirrel Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Ya you should be able to put an IDE drive in place so long as you have a spare IDE channel. Im assuming your optical drive is IDE as most are so you colud just put it in on that channel. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/89506-replacing-sata-with-ide/#findComment-638444 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stony1205 Posted February 23, 2008 Author Share Posted February 23, 2008 I think my DVD drive is SATA, as the OS X disks never boot (they do the "press f8 to reboot" loop). Is the drive going to be dangling out of the bottom of the laptop if I were to do this? How do I determine if I have an open channel? ~ Stony Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/89506-replacing-sata-with-ide/#findComment-638490 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennyp Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Hi all, I'm unfortunate enough to own an NForce 430 mobo with SATA. I know a driver exists, but I'm not comfortable patching the DVD myself and it appears there is no prepatched ISO for AMD users. Do a search for an AMD Leopard distro. (hint, look at my sig for the name) I don't know about your mobo but booting SATA is no problem on my compaq/macpaq lappy. Kenny BTW, you most likely cannot change to IDE on the laptop Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/89506-replacing-sata-with-ide/#findComment-638691 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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