dasepsilon Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 i've installed 10.4.9 using uphuck and added my ids to AppleVIA to enable SATA. OSx detects my controller correctly, and is able to boot in around 20 sec. So long everything looks good. But if i start moving around lot of files around (e.g. i was copying RAW-files from an USB-HDD), the VIADriver crashes-- at least thats what i think goes on, since i can move around the windows, but i get a spinning wheel (and i see in the activity monitor that there was 100% hdd-usage). Has anyone any solution to this instability? Is there some kind of 'newer' Extension? Mobo: MSI K9VGM-V, K8M890 OSX: Uphuck 10.4.9a (mainly) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delish Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 I had a VIA based mobo with OSx86 on, but I kept getting corrupt harddrives, try running disc utillity to see if that is your problem to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasepsilon Posted October 18, 2007 Author Share Posted October 18, 2007 what exactly do you mean with "corrupt harddrives"? since osx is crashing, it would be reasonable to assume that it takes some sectors with it (ok, there is usually a journal). or do you mean really physical errors? if i were to replace my mobo-- which one is really working _100%_? (i bought the via by a kind recommendation that sata works 100%.....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lactobacillus P Posted October 18, 2007 Share Posted October 18, 2007 i've installed 10.4.9 using uphuck and added my ids toAppleVIA to enable SATA. OSx detects my controller correctly, and is able to boot in around 20 sec. So long everything looks good. But if i start moving around lot of files around (e.g. i was copying RAW-files from an USB-HDD), the VIADriver crashes-- at least thats what i think goes on, since i can move around the windows, but i get a spinning wheel (and i see in the activity monitor that there was 100% hdd-usage). Has anyone any solution to this instability? Is there some kind of 'newer' Extension? Mobo: MSI K9VGM-V, K8M890 OSX: Uphuck 10.4.9a (mainly) I experience a similar problem with a different chipset on my asus p4p800 deluxe. On IDE drives! It seems to be something in the IDE/SATA driver kexts that seems to be causing the problem, but what is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasepsilon Posted October 18, 2007 Author Share Posted October 18, 2007 mmh, i also find it strange that osx sometimes boots up in just 20s but sometimes it is just slow as if i'm starting on a apple II with microsoft basic. anyone knows whats going on? besides, are there sources for the via-driver? in darwin mayhap? i find it strange that there is this pb... and it points to /Users/Jas/Source... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasepsilon Posted October 31, 2007 Author Share Posted October 31, 2007 mmh, if i can trust the solution from yesterday night, than simply replacing applesmbios.kext with another one (apparently the one on the uphuck 10.4.9 did not the trick) is all one needs to get around this nasty 'bug'. just in case someone else has similar problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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