iAtkos v7 wont recognize my SATA hard drives

jmkloz · #1 10-07-2009, 07:32 PM

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?

thanks in advance!

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

thorazine74 · #2 10-08-2009, 08:02 AM

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.

mastnavoday · #3 10-08-2009, 12:51 PM

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

jmkloz · #4 10-08-2009, 02:59 PM

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?

punk_zappa · #5 10-08-2009, 05:47 PM

Post your setup.

jmkloz · #6 10-09-2009, 02:21 AM

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

thorazine74 · #7 10-09-2009, 08:56 AM

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.

jmkloz · #8 10-10-2009, 07:58 PM

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?

jmkloz · #9 10-11-2009, 05:03 AM

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