No hard drive in Disk Utility

Good morning i am trying to install iDenebv1.3 10.5.5 everything works normal at the beginning but when i have to use Disk Utility in order to format my hard drive the disk Utility cannot find any of my hard drives.I tried to use an external one but the problem was the same although in the system profile my hard drive was visible,but not in the Disk Utility.Can you help me.
My Lap Top
Fujitsu Siemens
Processor intel 2,13
2GB ram
Mother Board:P50EA0 intel Chipset model 82915PM/GM/GMS, 82910GML Host Bridge
Hard Drive:FUJITSU MHV2100BH SCSI SATA
My Boot priority is:
1.Hard drive
2.CD/DVD
3.Removal HD

Thank you in advance

Hi there,
In your BIOS, is there an option for SATA to AHCI?
Have you try it?

Regards,

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Originally Posted by ratvn

Hi there,
In your BIOS, is there an option for SATA to AHCI?
Have you try it?

Regards,

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NO SATA to AHCI option in my BIOS trying to activate it using some programs i hope it will work otherwise i will let you know if you have something else, concerning my problem, in your mind.Thank you very much.

Hi,

So what options do you have under SATA?

Cheers,

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Originally Posted by ratvn

Hi,

So what options do you have under SATA?

Cheers,

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No options under SATA no options in BIOS concerning Hard Drive

Regards

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Originally Posted by mpampispal

No options under SATA no options in BIOS concerning Hard Drive

Regards

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Hi,
Your laptop came with a SATA hard drive and IDE DVD, correct?
In BIOS, is there anything like ATA/IDE Native/AHCI, SATA mode, hard drive S.M.A.R.T enable?
What is your Laptop model?

Cheers,

Quote:

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Originally Posted by ratvn

Hi,
Your laptop came with a SATA hard drive and IDE DVD, correct?
In BIOS, is there anything like ATA/IDE Native/AHCI, SATA mode, hard drive S.M.A.R.T enable?
What is your Laptop model?

Cheers,

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Good morning there is nothing like this in BIOS.The only thing that is similar to this is"Primary IDE Master :ATAPI CDROM" but i cannot change this and nothing else the model of my laptop is Fujitsu Siemens Amilo M 1437.Thank you.

Regards

Alright,
One thing you could try to check is at the installer screen, there is a hardware info tab under utility. You could look and see if OSX recognizes your motherboard chipsets, SATA driver correctly.

Cheers,

Hi,
I did some search for you and it looks like the FS 1437 does indeed having problem with its SATA controller, not just with all the windows versions but also Unbutu and Suse Linux.

The motherboard chipsets is Intel centrino 915 but with VIA SATA (and USB?) controller :confused: instead of the regular ICHx. (for SATA and USB)

My speculation is that OSX can not load your SATA controller correctly hence no SATA/USB drive.

Here is the reference link from Fujitsu Technical:
Fujitsu Technology Solutions - Forum • View topic - Amilo M1437 - HDD support problems

So maybe you can do some search to see if there is solution, or try a newer release, Ideneb 1.6 10.5.8, to see if it can identify that SATA controller better.

Good luck,
Regards,

Thank you very much for your replies you are very helpful i hope it will work otherwise i will let you know.

Regards