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3,672 reads · 2008-01-31 – 2008-02-01
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IOATAController Error

First things first... I have installed 10.5.1 on my PATA Drive and it works beautifully, however i wanted to boot it on my sata drive so... I finally got Leopard installed on my SATA drive and got it to boot after injecting Medevils nForce…

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@Acidrain9 Published 2008-01-31
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Leopard 10.5
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3,672 historical reads · 0 curated field notes (from 2 dispatches) · 2008-01-31 – 2008-02-01
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@Acidrain9 (2)

First things first...
I have installed 10.5.1 on my PATA Drive and it works beautifully, however i wanted to boot it on my sata drive so...
I finally got Leopard installed on my SATA drive and got it to boot after injecting Medevils nForce Kext into the iso

Unfortunately i am stuck with "IOATAController Device Blocking Bus" error on boot now.

My System Setup:
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 4800+ Socket AM2
MSI K9N SLI Platinum nForce570
4 x 1Gb Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800Mhz
Integrated Audio ALC 883 (working, in/output, all) Link
Integrated Ethernet (freezes when downloading. Disabled)
StarTech 10/100 Ethernet PCI (working w/o patch)
ATI Radeon X1600 512MB PCI-e (CI/QE Enabled) BorisBadenov Method
Dell LCD Monitor 22'' 1680 x 1050 @ 60 Hz
HD PATA Maxtor 200GB (10.5.1) Medevils Patch
HD SATA Maxtor 250GB (WinXP) Medevils Patch
HD SATA Maxtor 500GB (10.5.1) Medevils Patch (IOATAController Error on boot)

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