[Solved] Random freezes with second hard drive Sierra installation

[Pescado]

Hi,

I'm getting several issues with IO performance and random freezes, I detect that it's occurs when I've my secondary hard drive with my last Sierra installation connected.

Does anyone knows a solution of this problem?, Do I need a HFSPlus.efi on UIEFI clover folder drivers?.

Regards.

 

[BreBo]

@Pescado, please add details of your motherboard (Mobo) to your profile (personal details). Your motherboard is not 10.12.2

Profiles need to contain at least your primary system to assist others with helping you.

 

[Pescado]

@Pescado, please add details of your motherboard (Mobo) to your profile (personal details). Your motherboard is not 10.12.2

hi, updated details.

UPDATE STATUS

I made a backup of all my important files from the Sierra hard drive, and I formatted the hard drive to MSDOS partition map and NTFS partition file system, and after this I formatted again to GUID and HJFS+. But for some reason the problem persist, I thought the partitions or map partition had problems and re-creating could fix that io problem.

To make the backup I mentioned, I connected two additional hard drives, both with 500Gb. I noticed when I explore hard drives in both 500Gb expand a folder and tasks like that are fast as I expect, but doing it on 1Tb disk (old Sierra install, now only have files) this tasks are so slow and freezes Finder some times, when it doesn't freeze the entire computer.

Why only this hard drive could make this problems?. I'm going to test exchange the connection between hard drives.

This is my actual hard drives composition.

Blue one is the problematic HDD.

 

[Pescado]

@Pescado, please add details of your motherboard (Mobo) to your profile (personal details). Your motherboard is not 10.12.2

Hi,

I updated my mobo details, Have you some idea about this problem?.

Regards.

 

[P1LGRIM]

Have you some idea about this problem?.

Firstly the drive only has a 3 Gigabit speed.

Your motherboard has three SATA controllers, make sure that the drive is connected to an Intel port.

The AHCI_3rdParty_SATA.kext may help if you have not already installed it :

 

[Pescado]

Firstly the drive only has a 3 Gigabit speed.

Your motherboard has three SATA controllers, make sure that the drive is connected to an Intel port.

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The AHCI_3rdParty_SATA.kext may help if you have not already installed it :

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Hi, thanks for your help.

I checked my hard drive connections, all hard drives are connected to 6Gbs speed sata mobo connectors. However if any hard drive only reach 3Gbs should be negotiate the speed to 3Gbs and I suppose it shouldn't generate problems, I'm right?.



In my first post I supposed by light test that the problematic HDD was the Hitachi one because it has io bad performance. But I tested the system booting without this hard drive and I got random freezes too.

And I checked if I've already installed AHCI_3rdParty_SATA.kext and yes it is.

$ sudo find / -name "AHCI_3rdParty_SATA.kext"

/System/Library/Extensions/AHCI_3rdParty_SATA.kext

 

[eradicator006]

I had similar issues with my p7p55d which uses the intel series 5 controller. Using these clover patches for the ich10 controller fixed things for me. It's strange because I don't even have a ICH10 controller and this worked. It may be worth a try for you. There's really no harm in trying.

            <dict>
                <key>Comment</key>
                <string>fix I/O error for ICH10</string>
                <key>Disabled</key>
                <false/>
                <key>Find</key>
                <data>
                RYX2D5XCiciD4P5mhcl4D4TSdQs=
                </data>
                <key>Name</key>
                <string>AppleAHCIPort</string>
                <key>Replace</key>
                <data>
                iciD4P5mhckPmMFBCMyQkJCQdQs=
                </data>
            </dict>
            <dict>
                <key>Comment</key>
                <string>fix I/O error for ICH10</string>
                <key>Disabled</key>
                <false/>
                <key>Find</key>
                <data>
                icglQGACAD1AIAAAdQyB4b9///+Ji1EBAAA=
                </data>
                <key>Name</key>
                <string>AppleAHCIPort</string>
                <key>Replace</key>
                <data>
                kJCQkJCQkJCQkJCQkJCQkJCQkJCQkJCQkJA=
                </data>
            </dict>

 

[Pescado]

I had similar issues with my p7p55d which uses the intel series 5 controller. Using these clover patches for the ich10 controller fixed things for me. It's strange because I don't even have a ICH10 controller and this worked. It may be worth a try for you. There's really no harm in trying.

            <dict>
                <key>Comment</key>
                <string>fix I/O error for ICH10</string>
                <key>Disabled</key>
                <false/>
                <key>Find</key>
                <data>
                RYX2D5XCiciD4P5mhcl4D4TSdQs=
                </data>
                <key>Name</key>
                <string>AppleAHCIPort</string>
                <key>Replace</key>
                <data>
                iciD4P5mhckPmMFBCMyQkJCQdQs=
                </data>
            </dict>
            <dict>
                <key>Comment</key>
                <string>fix I/O error for ICH10</string>
                <key>Disabled</key>
                <false/>
                <key>Find</key>
                <data>
                icglQGACAD1AIAAAdQyB4b9///+Ji1EBAAA=
                </data>
                <key>Name</key>
                <string>AppleAHCIPort</string>
                <key>Replace</key>
                <data>
                kJCQkJCQkJCQkJCQkJCQkJCQkJCQkJCQkJA=
                </data>
            </dict>

Thanks for your help. I going to try it as soon as posible and get feedback.

Could you provide the source of this solution?.

 

[Pescado]

Thanks for your help. I going to try it as soon as posible and get feedback.

Could you provide the source of this solution?.

I'm testing if this patch fix my freezes problem.

But the first thing I noticed after put it in clover conf.plist is it fix my problem related about bad performance using my below mentioned Hitachi 1Tb hard drive. And also and much better thing this patch fix for me is that now I can access properly to the partition of another hard drive with all my data (2,5TB), what I'd disconnected for a while and now when I connected it I though it was corrupted partition because it can't was mounted and any partition was readable.

So I really glad for your help @eradicator006, you free me for spend weeks recovering my data .