Swad Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 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? Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
cpu killer Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 Works fine here =) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-5786 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Einsteiniac Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 works wonderful for me deinfately shows noted speed improvements in xbench as well Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-5828 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiscus Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 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? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-5897 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KENNYB Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 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? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-5969 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 There is no kext for nForce SATA devices, only PATA. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-6075 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 Works great here (915 Chipset motherboard). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-6128 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-6141 Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowdiver Posted August 23, 2005 Share Posted August 23, 2005 someone altered and recompiled the SATA driver, posted it on the other board. some told terrific speed and compatibility-differences are told. here its the same like before. running. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-6171 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiscus Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 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> <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Macgirl what are those kexts for? Have you got nforce3 SATA's working? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-6222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
darend Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 someone altered and recompiled the SATA driver, posted it on the other board. some told terrific speed and compatibility-differences are told. here its the same like before. running. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> They made the SATA drivers work for NForce boards? If so, where were they posted? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-6478 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-6485 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaleph Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 No, I dont have nForce 3, I have nForce 4, and yes its working with recompiled and modified kext. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> you have sata on the nforce4 working? which kext did you edit? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-6541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikx86 Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 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. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-6554 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-6590 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaleph Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 Yes I have 4 SATA Drives but in RAID configuration and does not work in Mac OS, neither in a single drive conf. Oh, sorry - i missunderstood you. I tought you said that you had sata working on osx. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-6609 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikx86 Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 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> <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-6908 Share on other sites More sharing options...
matiseijas Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 Where can i find the AppleVIAATA.kext ?? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-9337 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtle Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 I have some problems with SATA that I have posted here, http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=1474 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-9374 Share on other sites More sharing options...
timmyj Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-9620 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 nForce 4, NO SATA no matter in which onboard controller ONLY PATA And RAIDs configured in BIOS also unseen. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-9763 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakass202 Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Will a kext come out in future for nvidia sata???? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-14064 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Will a kext come out in future for nvidia sata???? Some day maybe. Just depends if the darwin people ever feel a need to write one, really. Apple sure won't. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-14071 Share on other sites More sharing options...
s800 Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 Anyone having luck with ICH7R? Hmmm.. maybe there's a bootable pci sata card now? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-114703 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsnuff1 Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/957-the-official-sata-thread/#findComment-114712 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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