05-29-2011, 04:32 PM
Update 2: The drive is actually fine, no problems with the Hitachi.
It looks like this is actually an eSATA / Hackintosh issue. Can't explain why it worked at first, but the drive will not mount on eSATA now. Works 100% over USB. Also, if I startup using the iBoot disc it works fine over eSATA. I tried installing the JMicron36xeSATA.kext from within MultiBeast, but it did not help.
Trying to figure out what to try next. I just tried doing a UserDSDT install but it crashes on startup, I might have the wrong BIOS version.
EDIT: One thing I have never understood is why everything seems to work 100% using iBoot, but when you don't use that (and boot straight from your system drive) you have to mess around with finding the correct extensions for everything.
It looks like this is actually an eSATA / Hackintosh issue. Can't explain why it worked at first, but the drive will not mount on eSATA now. Works 100% over USB. Also, if I startup using the iBoot disc it works fine over eSATA. I tried installing the JMicron36xeSATA.kext from within MultiBeast, but it did not help.
Trying to figure out what to try next. I just tried doing a UserDSDT install but it crashes on startup, I might have the wrong BIOS version.
EDIT: One thing I have never understood is why everything seems to work 100% using iBoot, but when you don't use that (and boot straight from your system drive) you have to mess around with finding the correct extensions for everything.