So, I've been running Mountain Lion on my Z68MX for quite a long time without the new BIOS. I guess it's been slightly sluggish, but I find that it is less so after I reboot (which I do maybe once a week). Would you recommend upgrading to the new BIOS? I feel like the setup I have now is remarkably fragile in terms of my DSDT and boot.plist. I wonder what you can tell me regarding that.
Now, to the reason I actually came here. I am currently dual booting with Windows 7. I had three hard drives set up, a 500GB for Windows and games, 1TB for OS X, and 1TB for OS X clone. Recently, I enrolled in a Linux class at college and have been told that I need to install Linux. Totally fine. Now, in the past, I've experienced a problem where a block of two SATA connectors would not be recognized by OS X. I discovered this a while ago when I bought a second DVD drive, making for a fifth SATA connection (3 hard drives, 2 disc drives). The fifth connection refused to be recognized by OS X, but it was working without a problem in Windows. It ended up not being a huge issue since I needed to use Windows software with the second disc drive anyway. However, now that I have a sixth connection, a final hard drive for an imminent Linux installation, and have learned that this new BIOS removes the need for a DSDT, I can't help but wonder if the new BIOS could resolve this issue.
Any thoughts about what this means? I don't have the time for a full system cleanse until March, but I would like to have this up and running soon.
EDIT: I forgot to mention specifically which block of SATA ports was acting up. Here is a picture with the relevant block highlighted. This is from the User's Manual that came with the mobo. I also decided to upgrade the BIOS to the new one and see what happens. Late nights for computer repairs don't concern me
EDIT 2: Turns out, updating to the UEFI BIOS did the trick. The GSATA ports are now available, but now, in the future, when I have this issue on a Hackintosh, I know that I can install the JMicron.kext from MultiBeast (
http://tonymacx86.blogspot.com/2010/03/jmicron-ata-support.html). I totally should have researched this earlier.