technicallyhesright Posted June 7, 2006 Share Posted June 7, 2006 I have intel ich7 SATA controller on a Dell Dimension 5150 Dualcore and was wondering if there is a kext extension or patch I can apply to enable this as my main physical drive is on this device. Also, how can I write to the files in my mac partition if Darwin stalls at boot "waiting for root device"? I have knoppix, and have tried several others like macdrive which mounted it read only and some other one i can't remember didn't work either. I also have the windows bash shell port, but I can't write to anything in that area. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hashekk Posted June 9, 2006 Share Posted June 9, 2006 I could not get my SATA to work so I installed a Primary ATA HDD and it worked without any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadiekiller Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 works fine as far as i can tell. of course, OSx86 is on my IDE Hdd, but that has a IDE to SATA converter, so im pretty sure it works fine. also, it reads my other SATA drive with XP on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superhai Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 I have intel ich7 SATA controller on a Dell Dimension 5150 Dualcore and was wondering if there is a kext extension or patch I can apply to enable this as my main physical drive is on this device. I have SATA hdd on my ICH7-controller (AHCI) and it works, but not out of the box. If you get Still waiting for root device, you need to update AppleAHCI.kext with the correct pci id. I installed it thru VMWare (because my dvdrom is on a unsupported controller (sil3132). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroz Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 <key>ICH5 Serial ATA Controller</key> <key>ICH6 Serial ATA Controller</key> <key>ICH6-M Serial ATA Controller</key> Does this still apply to above SATA INTEL CHIPSETS? Look below for specs on motherboard! Thanks! Can't get my SATA to boot but see's it fine when booting with ATA drive! Would also like to get the right ATA device id in there somewhere too as it has to be faster than a macbook I tested out the other day! PS. The ATA is 100 speeds only! Thanks attached is my info in the IOfamilykext. present_ata_and_SATA_info.rtf The ATA IS a 100 speed Maxtor? Serial first generation WD 150! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apreichner Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 I have a Western Digital SATA drive... My only hard drive. Previously i tried installing OS X, it detected the drive when I went into drive utilities, and I was able to format and start installing, however it gave an error during install, but I believe it was just a problem with the ISO. I am running an ASUS NForce 4 motherboard with an AMD Athlon 64 3200+. I think my SATA was detected properly, considering I was able to format a partition on the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vishaakje Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 I have a Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe with a IDE drive in it for OSX and a SATA drive for XP. But when I boot into OSX it does mount the two NTFS partitions I use for XP, I can read 'm watch movies of them, I'll try formatting one into mac filesystem lateron to see if I can read/write stable to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nemonyte Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 There is no kext for nForce SATA devices, only PATA. Not true, I used the VIA SATA patch included in HoTiSO version of macOSx install DVD and my SATA works just fine Drives are recognized without any issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PsykX Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 It works, but it's not stable... I can't install any application in it, or it crashes Other files look fine though... actually, the whole system hangs, I don't know what to do... I have nForce4 w/ a WD SATA2 drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jape Posted July 23, 2006 Share Posted July 23, 2006 I have a Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe with a IDE drive in it for OSX and a SATA drive for XP. But when I boot into OSX it does mount the two NTFS partitions I use for XP, I can read 'm watch movies of them, I'll try formatting one into mac filesystem lateron to see if I can read/write stable to it. Are you using the patched SATA VIA? Did your image come with the VIA SATA patch enabled? Are you using VMware? If the answer to all three questions is "no", I'd like to know which extension loads your SATA drive. Is it AppleOnboardPCATA? AppleGenericPCATA? -------------------------- In the nForce SATA thread, we're trying to trick the nForceATA (PATA) extension to handle SATA, which is what Linux 2.4 does. I haven't succeded, but I'll keep trying... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 Hardware: Toshiba Laptop Satellite P100-192 Intel Duo Core Mac OS x86: 10.4.7 SATA was working from 1st install on (Myz 10.4/5) all in all it is VERY fast Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3Stars Posted July 30, 2006 Share Posted July 30, 2006 Can i get anymore info from peopole with the ICH7 controller...works? doesn't? wondering if this board will work well 945G Neo2-F Intel® 945G Chipset • Supports FSB 533/800/1066MHz • Support Dual channel DDR2 667/533/400 memory interface upto 4GB • Support PCI Express 16X interface Intel® ICH7 Chipset • Integrated Hi-Speed USB 2.0 controller, 480Mb/sec, 8 ports • 4 Serial ATAII ports w/ transfer rate up to 3Gb/s • 1 channel Ultra ATA 100 bus Master IDE controller • PCI Master v 2.3, I/O ACPI 2.0 Compliant • Integrated AHCI controller Serial ATAII controller integrated in ICH7 • Up to 300MB/s transfer speed • Can connect up to 4 SATA2 drives • Supports ACHI controller • Supports SATA hot plug Audio • High Definition link controller integrated in Intel ICH7R chip • 7.1 + 2 channels audio codec Realtek ALC882 - Compliant with Azalia 1.0 Spec. LAN • Intel® 82573 PCI-E Gb LAN - Supports 10/100/1000 Mb/s - Compliane with PCI 2.2 - Supports ACPI Power Management. should i get it or look elsewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WillyDavidK Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 There is no kext for nForce SATA devices, only PATA. *sigh* Me and my MSI K8N Neo2 plat mobo. Guess I'll be copying all my music to an external hard drive again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joneSi Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 So the sata kexts don't really work for the nForce4? They might work, but then they might corrupt the data...great. BTW, the computer I'm trying to work on is the second in the list below. Gigabyte iDNA board with 6100 onboard and 410 chipset. Anybody having any luck with that? Well, IDK. I just wanted to check in... joneSi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Float Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 My hardware is setup in my sig. Trying to install OSX in VMWare and my harddrive isn't identified. I was planning on setting up in VMWare on a persistent, independent partition... and then booting it natively. I was really disappointed to hear that there are issues with nF4 and SATA drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 I was really disappointed to hear that there are issues with nF4 and SATA drives. Any newb who would bother to search would find lots of threads on the problems with nForce4 SATA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmkgd Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 Yep, disappointing. Good thing hard drives (eg pata) are cheap! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac Ian Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 Hi all, I have SATA Works real smooth. My mobo was DFI LanParty SLI-DR, using seagate 300GB SATA II. I'll post my profiler later on.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gchaprnka Posted October 18, 2006 Share Posted October 18, 2006 I installed 10.4.7 a while ago on my dell 9150, which thanks to wonderful dell design, has 1 ide chain (dvd drive and dvd burner) and 4 sata connections, each with a hd (80 for osx only, 160, 250, and 300 for xp), and they all work fine thru osx, and thanks to MacDrive, i can even use the 80 thru xp. only problem now is i just bought new 250 and 500 drives, and am out of connections (as well as drive bays) to use Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Karlsson Posted October 19, 2006 Share Posted October 19, 2006 Hello. I have some problems to understand everything here. I have installed OSx86 10.4.6 on ide. and it boots. But I would like to acces my SATA. I have Asus A8N-E (nForse4). When I try to see what drives i habe I only see my IDE. So my question is: Where do I get the drivers for S-ATA? (is it the VIAATA) How do I install them? Does Installing through WMware make the S-ATA driver not load, when I boot normaly? Is It possible to "mount" the S-ATA drive in read only? (so my partitions S-ATA doesn't crash) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spanakorizo Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 my SATA supposed to work? the mobo is ASUS A8V DELUXE i think the SATA is VIA VT8237 and the appleviasata kext has the vt8237 to load in the info plist i also choosed the via sata patch on the DVD installation GOATSECX 10.4.6 is it only me ,or it doesnt work? do i have to do something else to work? cause everything in this mobo are correct with no either patch sound stereo,usb,firewire,disks in correct speed,usbs even the sleep button (i pressed aciddentaly ..its under the restart button ) the only hardware problem is the nvidia gfx card,but that is known ok so? do i miss something? thankz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 ati radeon xpress 200, not working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gio Posted October 20, 2006 Share Posted October 20, 2006 My SATA works on nForce4 using myz 10.4.6 I don't know whats on there but it works fine with no crashes or boot problems as are present when editing the AppleVIAATA.kext file in some solutions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pemberton Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Hi all, I have SATA Works real smooth. My mobo was DFI LanParty SLI-DR, using seagate 300GB SATA II. I'll post my profiler later on.. I have that same set up, yes I keep getting errors when trying to create new files in OSX. I can install OSX fine, but when I try to add files from another hard drive, or create new ones it say "error -50" once and then every try after that, it says that the file name it too long. Can you please post what your set-up is, what version of OSX you are running, and if you changed any kext files? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jape Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Where do I get the drivers for S-ATA? (is it the VIAATA)How do I install them? Check my sig, there are lots of info on this forum.Does Installing through WMware make the S-ATA driver not load, when I boot normaly?VMware emulates a special IDE/ATA controller.Is It possible to "mount" the S-ATA drive in read only? (so my partitions S-ATA doesn't crash)Your partitions won't crash, but OS X will. My SATA works on nForce4 using myz 10.4.6 I don't know whats on there but it works fine with no crashes or boot problems as are present when editing the AppleVIAATA.kext file in some solutions. More details needed. Disk drive model, BIOS version and have you done extensive testing? I.E. copying files around, mounting DMG images, installing onto SATA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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