PeeWee Posted September 4, 2012 Author Share Posted September 4, 2012 If need be the DVD drive should be an easy cheap replacement, is it not running if you disable one of your sata hd's?Possibly a limitation of the sata kext your using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caled Posted September 4, 2012 Share Posted September 4, 2012 Yeah, it's a kext/chipset issue to do with Lion only recognising two of the four SATA ports. It'll work if I swap it on to another port, but I'd lose the other hard drive. I had all four SATA ports working when booting from one of the USBs, there must have been a kext on there with the correct config but I CBA to get it working lol. Well, that and everything else is working fine and I don't want to fubar anything else. If I really needed the CD/DVD, I could just load it in the MB Pro sat next to the desktop and use disc sharing - the advantage of OS X, I guess, the interoperability between devices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeWee Posted September 4, 2012 Author Share Posted September 4, 2012 Or you could mount disks as an image or buy a cheap usb optical drive tbf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caled Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Update;Took the IOATAFamily.kext from the USB drive and merged it in to the installation and got all four SATA ports working correctly. Which was required, as I've upgraded from a 9800GT to a HD6870, and the latter completely covers the upper two SATA ports (ie the only two that OS X recognised originally) on the motherboard. Marvellous design work from Dell, that. The HD6870 works out of the box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeWee Posted November 4, 2012 Author Share Posted November 4, 2012 Great stuff. Not messed with mine much lately, probably come back to it soon.I was disheartened by the icloud and app store problems I was getting and got a bit fed up.Also got fed up as I bought a gfx card that took up two spaces and simply did not fit due to the position of the slot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeWee Posted November 13, 2012 Author Share Posted November 13, 2012 Ordered a new wireless card compatible for Airport and also a better compatible GFX card.http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ASUS-Wireless-Ad...=true&rt=nc http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/110909608096?ssP...984.m1423.l2649 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caled Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 You get the wireless card and gfx in, then? Mine's still up and running, running OS X Lion better than it ever ran XP, Vista or 7. Pretty much completely moved across to Apple, now (aside from an Android phone). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeWee Posted March 27, 2013 Author Share Posted March 27, 2013 (edited) You get the wireless card and gfx in, then? Mine's still up and running, running OS X Lion better than it ever ran XP, Vista or 7. Pretty much completely moved across to Apple, now (aside from an Android phone).Ended up switching to another machine HP, ran perfect and my icloud app store etc ran first time.Yep the hackintoshes run very nice indeed, whenI have the spare cash I intend building a purpose built hackintosh based around an i3 or i5 cpu.I never put win7 back on my netbook as it runs so sweet on osx snow leopard.I now have an iPhone5 , iPad Mini, Hackintosh netbook and Hackintosh desktop.I do still have a Windows 7 laptop and various Win 7 desktops though. Edited March 27, 2013 by PeeWee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now