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I've read various opinions on this, so I thought I'd ask those who know.

 

Does SATA work with OSx86? It it more difficult the get working? Do the benefits outweigh the difficulties you may have?

 

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Can you try to give more information....

 

I'm on a MSI Neo2 K8N mobo and my SATA isn't working, my mobo uses the nforce3 chipsrt for SATA (as far as I can tell) and while the UDMA/NFORCE3 path listed in the hardware forums sped up my PATA considerably I still can't get SATA drives to be recognised.

 

What chipsets are you guys using?

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Can you try to give more information....

 

I'm on a MSI Neo2 K8N mobo and my SATA isn't working, my mobo uses the nforce3 chipsrt for SATA (as far as I can tell) and while the UDMA/NFORCE3 path listed in the hardware forums sped up my PATA considerably I still can't get SATA drives to be recognised.

 

What chipsets are you guys using?

 

 

To install onto a sata drive you should use a different linux install cd. Ubuntu won't recognize the drive. I heard someone installed using a knoppix cd. I also have a Neo2 Platinum but. How did you get the UDMA patch to work? It fouled my system upon the first or second reboot. I had to install OS X again and i know im not the only one.

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Working extensions for SATA are:

 

AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext

ICH5 Serial ATA Controller

ICH6 Serial ATA Controller

ICH6-M Serial ATA Controller

 

AppleVIAATA.kext

VIA SATA Controller

Hardware Name

8237 SATA

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Working extensions for SATA are:

 

AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext

<key>ICH5 Serial ATA Controller</key>

<key>ICH6 Serial ATA Controller</key>

<key>ICH6-M Serial ATA Controller</key>

 

AppleVIAATA.kext

<key>VIA SATA Controller</key>

<key>Hardware Name</key>

<string>8237 SATA</string>

 

Macgirl what are those kexts for? Have you got nforce3 SATA's working?

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Macgirl what are those kexts for? Have you got nforce3 SATA's working?

 

Names say it all.

 

AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext for INTEL chipsets

 

AppleVIAATA.kext for VIA chipsets

 

No, I dont have nForce 3, I have nForce 4, and yes its working with recompiled and modified kext.

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To install onto a sata drive you should use a different linux install cd. Ubuntu won't recognize the drive. I heard someone installed using a knoppix cd. I also have a Neo2 Platinum but. How did you get the UDMA patch to work? It fouled my system upon the first or second reboot. I had to install OS X again and i know im not the only one.

 

I have used the UDMA files for NForce3 without incident. Before I ran 'sudo chown -R root:wheel IOATAFamily.kext' there were permissions problems with the UDMA kext, and it would fail to boot, but using the -f flag gets you back into OS X.. It's very unlikely that it required a reinstall.

 

As for SATA, it's a big fat no go on my MSI K8N Neo Platinum

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you have sata on the nforce4 working? which kext did you edit?

 

Yes I have 4 SATA Drives but in RAID configuration and does not work in Mac OS, neither in a single drive conf.

 

The nForce kext only works for PATA / IDE

 

And again the only chipset that work with SATA are:

 

AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext

ICH5 Serial ATA Controller

ICH6 Serial ATA Controller

ICH6-M Serial ATA Controller

 

AppleVIAATA.kext

VIA SATA Controller

Hardware Name

8237 SATA

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Yes I have 4 SATA Drives but in RAID configuration and does not work in Mac OS, neither in a single drive conf.

 

The nForce kext only works for PATA / IDE

 

And again the only chipset that work with SATA are:

 

AppleIntelPIIXATA.kext

<key>ICH5 Serial ATA Controller</key>

<key>ICH6 Serial ATA Controller</key>

<key>ICH6-M Serial ATA Controller</key>

 

AppleVIAATA.kext

<key>VIA SATA Controller</key>

<key>Hardware Name</key>

<string>8237 SATA</string>

 

Does anybody have the Via 6420/6421 standalone SATA cards? I wonder if it could be jerry rigged into working in a similar fashion to the nforce3 / ac97 device/vendor id additions. The via download site provides the same driver for the 6420/6421 as for the 8237. The 6421 is apparently a dual SATA/IDE chipset.. Newegg sells a card based on it for $15 shipped or so. If it could be made to work it would be a great cheap way for people to get SATA working with unsupported hardware.

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hi, i've got a nforce 4 mobo, and next week i'm gonna buy a new hard drive (i've got two 74gb raptors in raid0 with xp and an old 10gb ata-66 drive with osx on it), i was wonderingn if i bought a 250GB SATAII drive if it would let me install mac os x on it or if not on my other silicon image controller? my mobo is a8n-sli deluxe and it has 2 4 port sata controllers

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SATA for NForce3/4 was looked into a while ago and I did some work on it at the time too. Seems the threads for those have died into oblivion.

 

Now if you want to continue working on this SATA on Nforce3/4 is indeed possible, contrary to what the moderators have to say.

 

Im not going to go into details but you basicaly need to modify the AppleVIATA.kext with your NForce3/4 device ID's and it should recognize the SATA drive.

 

word of warning...after extensive testing it was concluded that this driver causes many read/write errors which ended up corrupting the drives...so proceed at your own risk.

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