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Member #6,677 · 2009-05-13 → 2009-05-22
#1,709 by Dispatches #214 by Author Reads #1,885 by Thread Reach Member #6,677 ALC889a / Audio Voodoo / XNU Kernel AHCI / SATA

@alienlogic

InfiniteMac community contributor with 4 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (47,646 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 147,297 historical readers.

Dispatches 4 Ranked #1,709 of 6,691
Author Reads 47,646 Ranked #214 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 147,297 Ranked #1,885 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 47,646 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #6,677 Joined 2009-05-13
Active Window 2009 2009-05-13 → 2009-05-22
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
Hardware: · Intel DP43TF, Q9550S Core 2 Quad, 6GB DDR2-800 · XFX GF 8600GT 256MB, HP SATA DVD, Western Digital Caviar SATA drives
Archive Standing
#1,709 of 6,691 by Dispatches (4 notes) · #214 of 3,454 by Author Readership (47,646 reads across 1 dossiers) · #1,885 by Thread Reach (147,297 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #6,677 · Joined 2009-05-13
Hardware & Kernel Topics
ALC889a / Audio (2) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (2) · AHCI / SATA (2)
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

Releases & News
2 (50%)
Leopard 10.5
2 (50%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @alienlogic (1)

47,646 cumulative reads on threads started by @alienlogic

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Storage driver used by iPC 10.5.6 DVD
Having an odd quirk with SATA support: Hardware specifics- Supermicro C2SBA+II, G33 / ICH9R, SATA AHCI enabled in bios, RAID is NOT enabled. When booting to the iPC 10.5.6 DVD, then running System Profiler, the ICH9R is properly recognized…
Leopard 10.547,646 reads
2009-05-13 · 3 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (3)

Direct links into threads where @alienlogic contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Mac OS X 10.5.7 Released
“10.5.7 update working well from iPC 10.5.6 initial Vanilla install Hardware: Intel DP43TF, Q9550S Core 2 Quad, 6GB DDR2-800 XFX GF 8600GT 256MB, HP SATA DVD, Western Digital Caviar SATA drives Update to my previous post, This is NOT true : …”
Releases & News2009-05-22
99,651 dossier reads
Mac OS X 10.5.7 Released
“10.5.7 update working well from iPC 10.5.6 initial Vanilla install Hardware: Intel DP43TF, Q9550S Core 2 Quad, 6GB DDR2-800 XFX GF 8600GT 256MB, HP SATA DVD, Western Digital Caviar SATA drives 10.5.6 install required: -EFI Studio applied bo…”
Releases & News2009-05-20
99,651 dossier reads
Storage driver used by iPC 10.5.6 DVD
“It won't boot unless put into what the Supermicro BIOS calls "Legacy AHCI" mode, which disable ports 5 and 6. This is regardless of using Vanilla or Voodoo kernel, standard Intel ICHx driver or ICH10 specific. With "Legacy AHCI" enabled in …”
Leopard 10.52009-05-20
47,646 dossier reads