#807 by Dispatches #3,455 by Thread Reach Member #6,038 DSDT Chameleon / Boot-132 AHCI / SATA

@hubba

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Member Number #6,038 Joined 2009-04-11

Active Window 2009 2009-08-25 → 2009-10-13

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Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3L • OS X 10.6.3 Retail thru BootCD • QX6600@2,6GHz • 8GB Kingston 666MHz • PNY GeForce 8600GTX • AsereBNL 1.1.9 • BlackOSX 01/17 dsdt.aml • LegacyHDA

Asus Rampage Extreme x48 • OS X 10.6.3 Retail thru BootCD • HAF 932 • PSU Corsair HX-1000W • QX9770 @ 4.1ghz • 4GB OCZ 3P20002G @ 1800mhz • EVGA GTX-285 • Boot 2x VR 300GB RAID0 ICH9

Dell T3400 • 10.6.3 • x38 • QX6750 • 8gb • 9800GT • Voodoo HDA • Netgear GA-311

Archive Standing: #807 of 6,691 by Dispatches (10 notes) · #3,455 by Thread Reach (27,093 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID: Member #6,038 · Joined 2009-04-11
Hardware & Kernel Topics: DSDT (6) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (2) · AHCI / SATA (2)
Frequent Thread Collaborators: @skydrone @OG-Phantom @Snow @diskeeper @jimmydigital00 @mormegil @thorazine74 @cmdematos

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 1 technical boards

Snow Leopard 10.6

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Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (10)

Direct links into threads where @hubba contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch Excerpt	Collection	Date & Reach
Slow Hard Drive access on Snow “Many thanks to The King & CSHARP for this fix... originally from InsanelyMac. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=181981&st=160 Post #162 Open & edit dsdt.dsl find occurrence of the following and delete any IRQ# within brac…”	Snow Leopard 10.6	2009-10-13 27,093 dossier reads
Slow Hard Drive access on Snow “Seems there are several threads about slow SATA 1-x on other motherboards as well. The following link seems to favor a fix in the dsdt.aml file for several interrupts that are conflicting. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopi…”	Snow Leopard 10.6	2009-09-18 27,093 dossier reads
Slow Hard Drive access on Snow “since AppleAHCIPort.kext - info.plist does not have a section listing ICH9 or ICH9M.. should I copy & paste that one section from netkas's version and ADD it to the info.plist making sure I include the correct device id? (it's actually 2922…”	Snow Leopard 10.6	2009-09-15 27,093 dossier reads
Slow Hard Drive access on Snow “Here's a clue if it helps one of the uber hackintosh crew... if I double click a hard drive on SATA 1... finder opens but spining beach ball appears during the long delay.. unless I launch an app that steals focus from that window... then i…”	Snow Leopard 10.6	2009-09-09 27,093 dossier reads
Slow Hard Drive access on Snow “I've been testing this Dell Precision T3400 x48 motherboard with SL for 2 weeks trying to get stable SATA0-5... minimizing the number of kext withing EXTRA\EXTENSIONS to the minimum seems to be key along with clean install from SL type driv…”	Snow Leopard 10.6	2009-09-05 27,093 dossier reads
Slow Hard Drive access on Snow “This is how I seemed to fix the issue for a Dell Precision T3400 X48 ICH9 based SL install. You'll need to install from the USB method... ***copy latest kextutility to the root of your USB flash drive... you'll need to copy it to the new SL…”	Snow Leopard 10.6	2009-09-04 27,093 dossier reads
Slow Hard Drive access on Snow “This same issue is still a current problem even after removing all but the necessary kext from EXTRA. SATA0 responds normally (maybe a little slower than normal)... while SATA 1-5 sometimes don't even appear on desktop as usable drive. Agai…”	Snow Leopard 10.6	2009-08-31 27,093 dossier reads
Slow Hard Drive access on Snow “Thank you diskeeper... I cleared those from the EXTRA folder.. used kext utility to rebuild cache & a quick hard drive access test on all drives seemed fine... but system profile now shows all 6 channels of Serial-ATA as unknown? Do you thi…”	Snow Leopard 10.6	2009-08-27 27,093 dossier reads
Slow Hard Drive access on Snow “10.6 installed on Dell T3400 x48 system with QX9650 8gb ram from 10.8 leopard drive. Initial boot into SL with -v -x32 flags & quick launch of Kext Utility to repair permissions. Reboot & now fully stable x64 BUT... if I leave any combinati…”	Snow Leopard 10.6	2009-08-25 27,093 dossier reads
Slow Hard Drive access on Snow “Thank you Snow... didn't realize that nullcpupower & disabler were doing the same thing.”	Snow Leopard 10.6	2009-08-27 27,093 dossier reads