jabalsad Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 Hi all, I have a motherboard (Asus P5Q Turbo) with an onboard RAID chipset. I realised, after installing, that the BIOS needs to have "SATA set as RAID" in order to enable the RAID configuration. But this leaves a problem because I also need to have "SATA set as AHCI" in order to get Snow Leopard to boot. How do I work around this issue? (Apart from buying a RAID adapter card) PS: After a long struggle I finally got vanilla snow leopard working! I was battling like crazy with iDeneb and all kinds of stuff but then I was just trying something out of the blue and it just worked! Turned out it was the easiest install ever Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195722-ahci-vs-raid/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jabalsad Posted November 4, 2009 Author Share Posted November 4, 2009 Any suggestions? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195722-ahci-vs-raid/#findComment-1319684 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojojojohh Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Hi all, I have a motherboard (Asus P5Q Turbo) with an onboard RAID chipset. I realised, after installing, that the BIOS needs to have "SATA set as RAID" in order to enable the RAID configuration. But this leaves a problem because I also need to have "SATA set as AHCI" in order to get Snow Leopard to boot. How do I work around this issue? (Apart from buying a RAID adapter card) PS: After a long struggle I finally got vanilla snow leopard working! I was battling like crazy with iDeneb and all kinds of stuff but then I was just trying something out of the blue and it just worked! Turned out it was the easiest install ever I understand your struggle jabalsad on making your hackintosh work, and congratulations on your success. I'm with a vanilla install hackintosh for about a year already (starting from Leopard 10.5.4), and now I'm running Snow Leopard 10.6.1 with software RAID. It took me three attempts to make it work during the past year and finally, yesterday, I was able to have a bootable RAID with Snow Leopard 10.6.1. As I understand it, you like to use RAID without the expensive adapter card; technically, it's possible using software RAID, a built in feature on SL (with mirrored or striped options). Based on my experience with my Asus P5Q Deluxe, you need to set your BIOS to AHCI if you plan to use RAID. If you won't use RAID (just an SL install), it should still be set to AHCI. Setting it to RAID (on BIOS) won't help you to make a bootable RAID install. I'm not a geek on this technical stuff, and as far as I've read before, Snow Leopard does not use the onboard chip (ICH10R Intel Matrix Storage Technology with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support) for RAID (hardware-based) because there is no driver yet for Macs. So your recourse would be to use software-based RAID on SL found on Disk Utility. If you're referring to your board's fancy Silicon Image Sil5723 (Drive Xpert technology) onboard RAID on the other hand or you plan to use RAID 5, it would be a different story then. It's a great feeling if you've successfully installed using iDeneb as a starter, you can take it to the next level by exploring a vanilla Snow Leopard install to achieve faster and much closer to a real mac experience. Interested with RAID? you can follow links inside this: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=183336 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/195722-ahci-vs-raid/#findComment-1320366 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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