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iAtkos v7 wont recognize my SATA hard drives

I'm totally new to setting up Hackintosh systems and just want to for evaluation purposes. is there something i have to change in the bios for iAtkos to see my two SATA hard drives? (btw, i used Gparted to create a 15GB hfs+ partition on…

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@jmkloz Published 2009-10-07
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7,926 historical reads · 3 curated field notes (from 9 dispatches) · 2009-10-07 – 2009-10-11
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I'm totally new to setting up Hackintosh systems and just want to for evaluation purposes. is there something i have to change in the bios for iAtkos to see my two SATA hard drives?

(btw, i used Gparted to create a 15GB hfs+ partition on my secondary HD for mac. windows 7 is on my primary hd).

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Author Update #1 @jmkloz 2009-10-08

only problem... I dont get the option to change that in the bios... any other way around this... maybe another distro that supports AMD and SATA?

Author Update #2 @jmkloz 2009-10-09

HP Pavilion dv9000;
Motherboard Model: Quanta 30D1
Motherboard Chipset: nVidia nForce 630M (C67)
Video Card:nVidia GeForce 7150M / nForce 630M [HP]
Processor Name: AMD Turion64 X2 TL-58

Author Update #3 @jmkloz 2009-10-10

ok so i ditched my internal HD and installed in on my external usb HD. installations when fine, but whenever i start iAtkos my computer restarts... and suggestions?

Author Update #4 @jmkloz 2009-10-11

Never mind, i figured out my problem... just need to install the voodoo kernal

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Field Note #1 @thorazine74 2009-10-08

It depends on your hardware, I dont know which SATA controllers iAtkos supports but if yours is not in the list you wont see any drives connected to it.
If you can change the SATA into AHCI mode it will be supported.

Field Note #2 @mastnavoday 2009-10-08

thorazine74 → is right I also get this problem then it is solved by setting Sata mode to AHCI in BIOS

Field Note #3 @thorazine74 2009-10-09

If you dont have AHCI mode your SATA will still work in IDE mode but nforce chipsets without AHCI have bad support, you may try but you may find yourself most distro wont see your drives.
You could try updating your BIOS to see if you get AHCI added, I think your chipset is MCP67 and that supports AHCI hardware-wise.

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