twitzgall

@mcr, I know you said you're working on Lion, but I was successful in getting Mavericks installed on the MiniTower version on the 745 and attached my Extra folder here: https://osxlatitude.com/index.php?/topic/6366-optiplex-745-1092-storage-drives-not-showing/&do=findComment&comment=36398 I'm hoping one of those kexts will assist you. Specifically the IOATA one.

Yea, thats what I thought...I'm gonna try Mac-Fuse before I take any drastic actions and see if I can get it to mount..and least long enough for me to migrate data, format as GUID and then migrate data back. Thanks for your response!

Ah-ha!!!! Got it....after reaching the end of the internet, I figured out how to get them to show. In the end, I had to add the kernel flag -f to ignore the boot cache's and voila, the storage devices on SATA4 & SATA5 to show up in Disk Utility and one of them even mounts and is available. BUT, the other drive is MBR formatted and it's now prompting me to initialize it. Is there a kext to be able to mount MBR drives? Attached is my current Extra folder Extra.zip

I re-created the MyHack USB drive and added an updated IOATAFamily.kext to the E/E folder and am able to see all of the drives that I'm looking for in Disk Utility. Once I verified that, I used the Install Extra option in MyHack, chose Custom, and chose the Extra folder from the USB boot drive, then ran MyFix (Full). The installation boots up, but the storage drives on SATA4 & 5 do not mount nor do they show up in Disk Utility or System Profiler. I'm now at the point where I'm trying to figure out what's different between my USB boot disk and my Mavericks OS install on the SSD (SATA0) here is my extra folder any help or insight is appreciated! lspci -nn results: pcilib: 0000:01:00.0 64-bit device address ignored. pcilib: 0000:01:00.0 64-bit device address ignored. 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2990] (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 PCI Express Root Port [8086:2991] (rev 02) 00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2834] (rev 02) 00:1a.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2835] (rev 02) 00:1a.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:283a] (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:283f] (rev 02) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [8086:2847] (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2830] (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2831] (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2832] (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:2836] (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev f2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC Interface Controller [8086:2810] (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port SATA Controller [IDE mode] [8086:2820] (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:283e] (rev 02) 00:1f.5 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801HR/HO/HH (ICH8R/DO/DH) 2 port SATA Controller [IDE mode] [8086:2825] (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation Unknown device [10de:1282] (rev a1) 01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation Unknown device [10de:0e0f] (rev a1) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:167a] (rev 02) twitzgall.ioreg.txt

Setup: Optiplex 745 C2D Quad (Q6600) - 10.9.2 BIOS - 2.6.6 SATA0 - SSD - OS SATA1 - CD/DVD SATA4 - Storage1 SATA5 - Storage2 Successfully installed...all is working, but SATA4 and SATA5 drives will not mount even though SATA4 & SATA5 are enabled in the BIOS (And report themselves appropriately in the BIOS...SATA is also set to Legacy...) When I boot up w/ MyHack's vanilla Extra's folder, all drives show up as expected in Disk Utility When I boot up w/ my install, the SATA4 & SATA5 drives do not mount at all. They don't show up in System Profiler or Disk Utility. I have IOATAFamily.kext loaded in my install as well as an extra injector kext I cant remember the name of ATM. I'll post my full setup as soon as I get home as well as attach my Extra folder, but does anyone have an inkling at what may be causing this? Or what's different about the MyHack boot disk vs. my install?

As I've just spent the better part of 2 weeks working on this, I figured I'd chime in and help anyone out that I can. I now have Mountain Lion 10.8.5 working FULLY on a Dell Optiplex 745 ...iMessage, QE/CI, Audio, Graphics, the works. This was my boxes config: Intel® Q965 (ICH8) Express Chipset Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 1066MHz FSB Socket T with Dual Core technology XD, EM64T, 2MB and up to 4MB L2 cache, EIST and VT (E6000 series) Broadcom® 5754 Gigabit Ethernet LAN solution 10/100/1000 Ethernet with Remote Wake Up and PXE support 128MB ATI Radeon® X1300 ADI 1983 High Definition Audio Video Card Notes: The onboard video card's VGA works for all installation needs natively but sucks and doesn't support QE/CI..I saw some places that you could but it involved a lot more than I wanted to do. So, I ordered this ATI Radeon HD 5450 1GB for $30 - $20 rebate = $10...SOLD! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131338 My original install was all done through creating a MyHack USB with IOATAFamily.kext in the Extras folder on the USB Drive (Otherwise, Disk Utility won't show your SATA drive to install on) iMessage was by far the biggest PITA to get working...so I had to rely on a relatively new bootloader called Clover to get the job done. I'll upload my kexts/extras folder stuff if anyone still needs this, just reply to the post. I love this forum and this was a fun little project for myself so I'd be glad to help if I can but the main takeaway is...get a different graphics card.