Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
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Member #250 · 2008-01-19 → 2008-02-07
#992 by Dispatches #2,547 by Author Reads #2,612 by Thread Reach Member #250 AMD OSx86 ASUS P5K / P5Q AHCI / SATA

@benzene

InfiniteMac community contributor with 8 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (3,782 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 66,777 historical readers.

Dispatches 8 Ranked #992 of 6,691
Author Reads 3,782 Ranked #2,547 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 66,777 Ranked #2,612 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 3,782 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #250 Joined 2008-01-19
Active Window 2008 2008-01-19 → 2008-02-07
Archive Standing
#992 of 6,691 by Dispatches (8 notes) · #2,547 of 3,454 by Author Readership (3,782 reads across 1 dossiers) · #2,612 by Thread Reach (66,777 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #250 · Joined 2008-01-19
Hardware & Kernel Topics
AMD OSx86 (3) · ASUS P5K / P5Q (1) · AHCI / SATA (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
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Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 3 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
6 (75%)
General
1 (12%)
10.X Core
1 (12%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @benzene (1)

3,782 cumulative reads on threads started by @benzene

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
What happens during BaseSystem verification
i installed lots of times many Tigers on quite a bunch of different machines and was always, after some trying able to spot the problems i got during installation. But not with Leopard. I am stuck on installation right with the first…
Leopard 10.53,782 reads
2008-01-19 · 7 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (7)

Direct links into threads where @benzene contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
USB Wireless Adapter
“You could give kismac a try to check out if it´s possible to communicate to your card with its built in drivers. I don´t know much about broadcom chipsets. I know Ralink and prism2 chipsets work quite good on real macs and osx86 machines to…”
10.X Core2008-01-20
10,502 dossier reads
EFI + GUID + VANILLA under AMD - possible
“Did i get it right? I know vanilla kernels from the linux community. Vanilla means that nothing is altered or added to a kernel, it´s byte by byte the same as the official kernel releaser gave it out. So, by our means it´s a kernel released…”
Leopard 10.52008-01-21
7,830 dossier reads
What happens during BaseSystem verification
“I think i tried every possible combination now… no luck. Maybe it´s because of my nforce 430 chipset? has anybody tried it on that?”
Leopard 10.52008-01-22
3,782 dossier reads
What happens during BaseSystem verification
“Thanks for your help My HD is primary master, one partition only for osx. DVD is secondary master. This setup is choosen since the pc is intended to be used only as a osx machine and to prevent waiting for root device problems. Nulling the …”
Leopard 10.52008-01-20
3,782 dossier reads
What happens during BaseSystem verification
“It might be a good idea to menton some system specs: Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego ASUS A8n-VM-CSM nforce430 XFX 7300gt 256mb pATA HDD The system worked perfectly on tiger except sata which i made working with a cheap usb fix.”
Leopard 10.52008-01-19
3,782 dossier reads
gathering info about EFI for wiki
“Won´t there be the possibility to run a amd patch script just after installing apple updates so an efi amd system could also use apple´s updates? This would end up in something similar to intel vanillaish osx86s.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-07
3,186 dossier reads
Member Nationalities
“Saarbrücken, Germany”
General2008-01-20
41,477 dossier reads