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  1. Greets to all- Once again, thank you to the myHack crew for THE only working Lion USB install that has worked for me. I have one small issue, that I am sure someone can help me with. During the Lion installion, via the myHack USB method, when it gets to the point where it asks what hard drive to install Lion to, my SATA drives are showing, but not my (2) Legacy ATA drives. My BIOS settings are the same as used with my perfectly running SL installation, which, saw both of my Legacy hard drives. All drive references in BIOS are set to AHCI. Now, from all the research, and reading I have done, others have suggested to copy a Legacy patched IOATAFamily.kext to the USB installer sticks "S/L/E" folder, and try again. I did, and I also used numerous different IOATAFamily.kext, to no avail. Still only the SATA drives showing as available locations to install to. Even if I (delete/remove) (any/all) instances of any IOATAFamily.kext from the USB installer sticks S/L/E folder, the installation remains the same, only the SATA drives are showing. That, in and of itself, tells me that, the IOATAFamily.kext file, did not seem to be doing anything at all, as far as the installation, to begin with. Can someone please help me to understand what steps are needed to alter my myHack Lion USB stick installer, to see my two Legacy ATA drives, as available drives to install Lion to? System Information: Motherboard: (Asus P5K-Deluxe WiFi - Uses the JMicron JMB363 PATA Controller) Legacy Drives In Question: (Western Digital WD205BA / Western Digital Digital WD400BB-00AUA1) Thank you everyone for your time.
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    First off allow me to thank you, for being the only "hack" that actually got Lion installer to work. I have tried every form of installing Lion, from xfail, to making so-called bootable installation disks, other USB installers, etc, non of them work, at all. But your method, sir, was right on the money. Your website speaks volumes of your intelligence. So, about me. I hail from West Virginia, USA. Have been into computers since the XT/8086. Although not new to computers at all, (was a manager in Information Services for United Parcel Service for nine years), the whole Hackintosh thing is new for me. Predominantly a PC man, myself, what drew me to Mac was the need/desire to use Final Cut Pro X, and I was not about to purchase an entire Mac system, just to tinker with one single program. Once I started dabbling with getting the Mac OS to run on a spare hard drive on a PC, I was hooked. Funny thing, my first attempt was flawless. I got Snow Leopard installed using a retail SL DVD, and iboot (chameleon, stolen and rebranded). Budda-bing. Went right in and ran perfectly. I would say, roughly 94% ran out of the box. Lion on the other hand is another story. I have had such a rough time at getting Lion on to its own hard drive, that I almost gave up the Hackintosh thing, I was that frustrated. That is of course untill I found your site. Your "USB method" was THE only one that worked for me. I have never bought a PC, I have built and designed every system I have ever owned. I enjoy programming. Program in Visual C#/Basic/Assembly x86. Once ran a 4 telephone line BBS, TBBS as a matter of fact, and received downloads from Satellite via Planet Connect. I also wrote a program, which I ended up selling on FIDOnet, which parsed all the downloaded material automatically, and distributed material to its proper location within the board system. Thats about it really.
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