Mac OS X on x86 Hardware 2008–2024 Technical Archive
Member #4,744 · 2009-02-07 → 2009-02-16
#1,186 by Dispatches #1,032 by Author Reads #494 by Thread Reach Member #4,744 Chameleon / Boot-132 Retail DVD / USB ALC889a / Audio

@chord

InfiniteMac community contributor with 6 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (11,049 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 1,015,831 historical readers.

Dispatches 6 Ranked #1,186 of 6,691
Author Reads 11,049 Ranked #1,032 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 1,015,831 Ranked #494 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 11,049 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #4,744 Joined 2009-02-07
Active Window 2009 2009-02-07 → 2009-02-16
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
Specs: · Intel Pentium D 930 · Asus P5WD2-E Premium · 2 GB DDR2 533MHz · GeForce 7300GT 256MB · Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 300GB (SATA port 0, named 3rd Master in BIOS) · Optiarc DVDRW (Primary IDE master)
Archive Standing
#1,186 of 6,691 by Dispatches (6 notes) · #1,032 of 3,454 by Author Readership (11,049 reads across 1 dossiers) · #494 by Thread Reach (1,015,831 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #4,744 · Joined 2009-02-07
Hardware & Kernel Topics
Chameleon / Boot-132 (2) · Retail DVD / USB (2) · ALC889a / Audio (1) · Voodoo / XNU Kernel (1) · NVIDIA GeForce (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
3 (50%)
10.X Core
2 (33%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @chord (1)

11,049 cumulative reads on threads started by @chord

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
"Waiting for boot volume..." and IDE emulation
Specs: Intel Pentium D 930 Asus P5WD2-E Premium 2 GB DDR2 533MHz GeForce 7300GT 256MB Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 300GB (SATA port 0, named 3rd Master in BIOS) Optiarc DVDRW (Primary IDE master) Here are the results so far: I have used JaS…
Leopard 10.511,049 reads
2009-02-07 · 3 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (5)

Direct links into threads where @chord contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
iPC OSx86 Leopard 10.5.6 Intel AMD SSE2 SSE3
“Never mind, I will start a new thread as my questions are not specificly related to iPC.”
10.X Core2009-02-07
965,272 dossier reads
Is this how the OSx86 scene is going
“It's sad to see InsanelyMac admins are so cocky.”
10.X Core2009-02-07
36,845 dossier reads
"Waiting for boot volume..." and IDE emulation
“Anyone please? Can I install XxX 10.5.6 and add other languages from my retail disc? Do I need Pacifist to do that?”
Leopard 10.52009-02-16
11,049 dossier reads
"Waiting for boot volume..." and IDE emulation
“Oh, I forgot. I tried an IDE->SATA adapter to put the DVD as SATA-1. No difference. I wrote down the UUID and tried the UUID parameters when using Boot-132. platform=X86PC or platform=ACPI did not matter either.”
Leopard 10.52009-02-07
11,049 dossier reads
MP3 editing
“Edit mp3s without resampling using Fission. rogue amoeba.com/fission/ Though time stretching can never be done without resampling.”
Software & Kexts2009-02-10
2,665 dossier reads