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ATI ATA Driver optimized for Snow Leopard

I have rebuilt the ATI ATA driver so that it runs perfectly and without deprecation on Snow Leopard. Download including sources: rapid share.com/files/293932720/AppleATIATA-7.zip Enjoy...

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@andyvand Published 2009-10-16
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OSx86 Core & 10.X
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33,131 historical reads · 8 curated field notes (from 11 dispatches) · 2009-10-16 – 2011-11-18
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@gedna (3)@andyvand (2)@jazZbaR@timberwolf5@diamondtahir2004@ashp@scififan68@bcoco85

I have rebuilt the ATI ATA driver so that it runs perfectly and without deprecation on Snow Leopard.

Download including sources:
rapid share.com/files/293932720/AppleATIATA-7.zip

Enjoy...

Author Updates & Technical Revisions

Follow-up dispatches by @andyvand

Author Update #1 @andyvand 2009-12-25

You can replace it with this one in /Extra/Extensions
Make sure permissions are set to root:wheel and file mode is 755.
Then repack /Extra/Extensions.mkext

Synthesized Community Field Notes

8 technical responses curated from 11 original dispatches

Field Note #1 @jazZbaR 2009-10-16

I have an AppleATIATA.kext in E/E. Can you tell me what is to do with this files from your package?

And sorry for my english

Field Note #2 @timberwolf5 2010-06-30

Hey andy can you tell whats the difference between this kext and the previous atiata.

I recently had a serious mac error out of the blue. I had a perfect hackintosh running with your 1.0.3 (-7) version or atiata for one month, then all of a sudden the mac hfs partition would refuse to mount.

I had to reformat and reinstall snowleopard. This time I dedicated the 1 whole HD to snowleopard (guid) and reverted back to the older atiata 1.0.2 in hopes that this never happens again.

What are the improvements of your 1.0.3 version?

sb710 chipset
2 SATA HD's (ide mode)
Snow Leopard 10.6.4

Field Note #3 @diamondtahir2004 2010-07-16

Failed to load extension com.apple.driver.AppleATIATA.

I am trying to install Hazard's SL 10.6.2 on my AMD Athlon X2 4600+ with Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2 (AMD 740+SB700).

I have installed the above provided extension but I get this error in both 64-bit mode and 32-bit mode:

Failed to load extension com.apple.driver.AppleATIATA.

I have verified the permissions and ownerships. Everything seems to be fine but I am unable to boot.

I am already using iPC 10.5.6 with AppleATIATA-6 kext and it is working great.

:-|

Field Note #4 @ashp 2010-09-12

I hope you can shed some light on whats going on here, The AppleATIATA.kext works and is placed in /E/E but now I have trouble burning discs in my OS X.

Now In system profiler it says burning supported (Generic Drive support) but when i check in disk utility it goes Burning Unsupported.

It clicked to me when I tried burning discs with toast and found I got a communication error previously I could burn with toast. This happens for both optical drives.

Do you think removing the kext might solve this issue?

Regards,
Ash

I'm attaching screenshots

Field Note #5 @gedna 2010-10-07

Dear Andy, thank you for all your hard work on this community,
but can you look again on ATI ATA kext you make for snow leopard, it works, but has some problems, I cant burn any discs, and maybe its possible to make it even faster?

hope you look at this thanks again.

Field Note #6 @scififan68 2010-10-17

Hey gedna, the only way to get a sata dvd drive working is use ahci or raid mode(found in the bios), or use an ide dvd drive in conjunction with his kext and it burns discs. Thank you andy for working on this!

Field Note #7 @gedna 2010-10-17

thank for replay, i have already using ahci mode in bios, problems however is the same

Field Note #8 @bcoco85 2011-11-18

kernel panics

hi. first of all, thanks for the efforts that make people in this porjects.
im trying to find a solution for kernel panics when i have 2 pata drives that are connected to a SB750. i have to umount them because system will crash instead.

jmicron kext is buggy. i found this, deleted jmicron kext and installed appleatiata version 1.0.3 but also crashes the system
even with maxmen=4096

Corroborated & Participated: @gedna
Sources & Contributor Provenance (8 credited usernames · Thread #4441)
UsernameDossier ContributionDispatchesActive Window
@gednaCore Contributor32010-10-07 → 2010-10-17
@andyvandPrimary Author22009-10-16 → 2009-12-25
@jazZbaRContributor12009-10-16
@timberwolf5Contributor12010-06-30
@diamondtahir2004Contributor12010-07-16
@ashpContributor12010-09-12
@scififan68Contributor12010-10-17
@bcoco85Contributor12011-11-18