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Member #1,530 · 2008-02-28 → 2008-03-20
#592 by Dispatches #3,321 by Author Reads #1,637 by Thread Reach Member #1,530 NVIDIA GeForce AHCI / SATA AMD OSx86

@cybland

InfiniteMac community contributor with 13 recorded dispatches, 1 lead technical dossiers (2,486 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 247,555 historical readers.

Dispatches 13 Ranked #592 of 6,691
Author Reads 2,486 Ranked #3,321 · 1 dossiers
Thread Reach 247,555 Ranked #1,637 in reach
Lead Dossiers 1 2,486 avg reads / dossier
Member Number #1,530 Joined 2008-02-28
Active Window 2008 2008-02-28 → 2008-03-20
Hardware Specs Reported in Dispatches
Here is hardware info for the project: · CPU: Athlon 64 3200+ · MB: MSI K8N Neo2-FX (nForce3 250Gb) · VGA: Asus N7600GS Silent 256Mb AGP (GeForce 7600GS) · RAM: Corsair 2x1GB @400MHz 128bit (dual channel mode) · HDD: 2x160GB Maxtor DiamondMax9 S-ATA drives
Archive Standing
#592 of 6,691 by Dispatches (13 notes) · #3,321 of 3,454 by Author Readership (2,486 reads across 1 dossiers) · #1,637 by Thread Reach (247,555 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID
Member #1,530 · Joined 2008-02-28
Hardware & Kernel Topics
NVIDIA GeForce (3) · AHCI / SATA (1) · AMD OSx86 (1)
Frequent Thread Collaborators
@WinLinMac01 (5) @bhast2 (4) @Puttabong (4) @roisoft (4) @Ianxxx (4) @DoiX (3) @zephyroth (2) @megaargon1 (2) @jshanh (2) @Snow (2) @creative_ (2) @Raldo (2) @xx66stangxx (2) @shitan (2)

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 3 technical boards

Leopard 10.5
11 (85%)
General
1 (8%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @cybland (1)

2,486 cumulative reads on threads started by @cybland

Dossier Title & SummaryCollectionReadership
Multi-boot on software RAID
Is it possible to create multiple partitions on an nVidia software RAID for the purpose of setting up a multi-boot system (e.g. Windows XP and OS X, or XP, OS X and Linux)? I’m at the moment in a process of backing up my data and tomorrow…
Leopard 10.52,486 reads
2008-03-09 · 7 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (12)

Direct links into threads where @cybland contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch ExcerptCollectionDate & Reach
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“eaglepride605 I've had the same problem with Transmac until I've installed it to C:\Program Files\Transmac (instead of offered C:\Program Files x86). Also if you're using the cracked Transmac v7.5 from TPB know that supplied cracked .exe is…”
Leopard 10.52008-03-01
74,206 dossier reads
Leopard 10.5.2 AMD EFI (OOTB)
“[cite] prateesh:Hi, I have downloaded & burned the DVD but when i boot from it Its boots till the point where GUI should load and appearers but the GUI never load it just show a light blue screen to me I waited it for to come for some 20-25…”
Leopard 10.52008-02-28
74,206 dossier reads
'About this Mac' Graphics
“Here is mine "About this mac". Nothing fancy. Just giving credit to those that deserve it.”
Software & Kexts2008-03-08
53,545 dossier reads
Member Nationalities
“I'm from Belgrade, Serbia. So that makes third user from Serbia and first one from Belgrade.”
General2008-03-01
41,477 dossier reads
Zephyroth Leopard AMD 10.5.2 Rev.2 Issue Discussion
“I had a same problem with the new MeDevil's kext. Had to inject the ones from Rev1. In my case the error was caused by my nForce S-ATA RAID not being supported (dev id 00ee) so boot was stuck trying to detect the partition on my RAID array.…”
Leopard 10.52008-03-12
35,425 dossier reads
Ethernet Adapter Kext
“Have you tried with the Mac driver from D-Link site: DFE530TX+ driver v3.46”
Leopard 10.52008-03-13
25,220 dossier reads
Software Update
“Maybe a silly question but have you remembered to mount your OS X partition before running the pacher in -s mode? [cite] CyCLoBoT:My install is screwed up after update. I even replaced the old kernel and system.kext. I ran Marvin's utility …”
Leopard 10.52008-03-20
6,293 dossier reads
Software suggestions for Mac OSX Leopard
“Hey WinLinMac01 you have a "real" thing on a bay (TPB). [cite] WinLinMac01:cough cough…oops…wish--to----err--------whis----per----me------th-e------re-al---th---i---n-g =) T-han-x---s lol [cite] bhast2 but mine is not a demo i have the real…”
Leopard 10.52008-03-20
4,598 dossier reads
Mac OS X could not be installed on your computer
“silentmac, I’ve just realized that you have famous X200/SB400 chipset. There are many reports that Leo can’t be installed on that chipset although DoiX has claimed here that he has managed to do it.”
Leopard 10.52008-02-28
4,305 dossier reads
Mac OS X could not be installed on your computer
“It seems that the problem lies with your NEC DVD. As far as I know Optiarc is S-ATA DVD. There is a known issue with S-ATA drives. Try to install from P-ATA (IDE) drive or try to boot the install disk with -v switch (press F8 in Darwin and …”
Leopard 10.52008-02-28
4,305 dossier reads
Multi-boot on software RAID
“Here it is. Finally finished. @gaz919 Thanks for the wishes and warnings. I haven't confused the two, just forgot to disable the nVidia RAID. Anyhow my final setup is WinXP on nVidia S-ATA Raid and OS X on Apple software raid, on two IDE AT…”
Leopard 10.52008-03-10
2,486 dossier reads
Multi-boot on software RAID
“First report after half of a day of experimenting. Software RAID + S-ATA Drives + OS X = NO GO I was able to create Apple raid in several configurations (all in stripping mode) but it all ends up with error while trying to fix GUID bootload…”
Leopard 10.52008-03-09
2,486 dossier reads