ACARD IDE: DVD drive not avail. w. MacOS-X |
March, 11, 2003 1:59 PM |
reinhard.knorr |
On my Mac 7600 with Newertech G4 card and ACARD IDE controller AEC-6280M the internal IDE DVD drive is recognized under MacOS 9.x but not under MacOS X! Is there a need for a special driver or a firmware upgrade? |
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RE: ACARD IDE: DVD drive not avail. w. MacOS-X |
March, 25, 2003 12:26 PM |
reinhard.knorr |
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Many thanks to all: my ACARD IDE controller works now as it should! CDs and DVDs are mounted immediately. I have updated the firmware to version 2.14 http://www.acard.com => support => Macintosh download http://161.58.88.33/download/mac/driver/ide/aec6280m/ Update6280MVer2.14.sit) |
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RE: ACARD IDE: DVD drive not avail. w. MacOS-X |
March, 13, 2003 7:09 PM |
marcush |
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The macbidouille patch is calld "DVD Player 3.2. no cocoa.sit". do a search on the site using "dvd no cocoa" as your search string and it will be the second of 3 results. I used it with my Acard 6280M and it worked as advertised. |
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RE: ACARD IDE: DVD drive not avail. w. MacOS-X |
March, 13, 2003 2:04 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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The french mac do it yourself web site has a patch that "fixes" the DVD player so that it will run on old world macs without the dreaded "No DVD drive available" message. http://macbidouille.com/ Works great for me. No need to play the mount a disk image game. Marty |
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RE: ACARD IDE: DVD drive not avail. w. MacOS-X |
March, 13, 2003 12:27 PM |
marcush |
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I can confirm jslewis' experience with his Sonnet Tempo ATA/133. I have identical results with my Tempo ATA/100. The DVD player works when I insert a DVD, Disc Burner works, and most importantly iDVD works with my Pioneer DVR-104 Superdrive. No software patches are required for any of this. My machine is a Power Tower Pro. Interestingly, my Toshiba SD-R1202 CD-RW/DVD drive also works with the DVD player over Firewire. I've read that this is because there is already a supported DVD drive installed internally. I have similar results in OS 9.2.2 with the DVD player and Disc Burner but I had to edit the device support plug-in extensions with Hexedit. iTunes still does not recognize the drive though. I'm rarely in 9.x.x anymore and so that was done just to see if it would work. |
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RE: ACARD IDE: DVD drive not avail. w. MacOS-X |
March, 13, 2003 12:09 AM |
jslewis |
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My experience from an older ATA card and the newer Sonnet ATA 133 card is that: You should be able to mount CD/DVD's with a DVD Drive attached to the Acard. That is putting in CD's they should spin up and mount on the desktop. Apple's 3.1.x/3.2 DVD player will not launch. Technically it won't be installed without pacifist and after that will refuse to launch. You can circumvent this failure to launch by mounting a disk image, any disk image, with toast. After mounting a disk image with toast apple's DVD player is fooled into thinking that there is a supported DVD drive and will play DVD's in the DVD drive. I don't believe you'll be able to burn CD/DVD on an appropriate drive if the drive is attached to an Acard adapter. With a Sonnet 100 or 133 adapters or an old ultratek 66 everything OSX is kosher. You can watch DVD's you can burn DVDs, burn CDs, etc. OS9 stuff might not work too well but the drives you add are fine under OSX because these cards use a promise chipset that shows IDE stuff as IDE stuff to OSX and doesn't fake being SCSI preventing identification. I have one of the Pioneer 105 superdrives working just fine off a sonnet ATA-133 card in a 9600. I don't have to do the toast trick to play DVD and can burn under OSX. OS9 functionality is not that good. |
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RE: ACARD IDE: DVD drive not avail. w. MacOS-X |
March, 12, 2003 9:13 AM |
marcush |
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My card is a 6280M. I bought it as an ATA/100 but tech support said at the time that the firmware that I was about to download upgraded it to ATA/133. The card itself had a stamp on it's back side "ATA 100/133" that indicated that it could be either. I didn' have any problems using cable select with it. With my present card, a Sonnet Tempo ATA/100, cable select does cause problems. |
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RE: ACARD IDE: DVD drive not avail. w. MacOS-X |
March, 11, 2003 8:43 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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FYI my card is the 6260. |
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RE: ACARD IDE: DVD drive not avail. w. MacOS-X |
March, 11, 2003 5:38 PM |
chibi_delenn |
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On the Acard66 (Tempo ATA/66), firmware 3.12 is required for CD/DVD recognition, although if you can get 3.21 to work (not a typo), use it instead as it's more stable. NOTE: If you intend to use the 3.21 firmware for the Acard based ATA/66 cards, DO NOT use the Sonnet 3.21. Use the 3.21 that's on Acard's own site, as it's newer. I'm not sure about the 6280M series, but I would try (HAVE A SCSI HD HANDY "JUST IN CASE") different firmwares. One of them should let you use CD/DVD IDE drives on the card. Also, stay away from Cable Select if you can - it's one hell of a headache on macs. I know THAT from experience. - Chibi Delennâ„¢ |
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RE: ACARD IDE: DVD drive not avail. w. MacOS-X |
March, 11, 2003 4:48 PM |
marcush |
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You probably need to update the firmware on the card. I had to do that before it would detect a Toshiba CD-RW/DVD drive that I had attached to it. |
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RE: ACARD IDE: DVD drive not avail. w. MacOS-X |
March, 11, 2003 3:14 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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I have the acard ahard 66 (don't remember #). I have me CD/RW hooked to the second channel and set to cable select and it works fine with this setup(10.2.4). It's a Teac 40X. Marty |
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RE: ACARD IDE: DVD drive not avail. w. MacOS-X |
March, 11, 2003 3:06 PM |
SlyTovak |
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I've experience a similiar problem with an internal CDRW not being recognised by the 6280. Toast used to recognise the drive while it was attatched to a UltraTek IDE card, but since that card died, I've been unable to use it. Is the DVD show in the system profiler? If not, maybe there are no OS X drivers for that particular drive. Also, make sure you check the jumpers on the back of the drive, and which connector you are using on the IDE cable. Sometimes that can make a difference. Though, if you have gotten it working in OS 9, its probably just the driver. Check the firmware of the card while you are in OS 9. Your version might not have very good support for some ATAPI IDE drives, though ACard says that in general, ATAPI drives work on the card |
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