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kazumotokun
Nov 16 2009, 04:46 AM
I have installed snow leopard 10.6.2 (by following the guide on lifehacker) on a Gigabyte EP43-DS3l motherboard and everything is running great... except for the DVD drive, a Pioneer DVR-216D. SATA is set to AHCI, and while the hard drives are clearly operating at full speed, the DVD drive won't push past a 1x read/write speed. I have switched the SATA ports around, and even swapped in a Sony Optiarc but the results do not change. I tried the newest ICH10 kext from this forum but it had no effect. 10.5.8 didn't have this issue for me. Could someone please offer me some advice? It would be much appreciated! smile.gif
kazumotokun
Nov 17 2009, 06:52 AM
QUOTE (kazumotokun @ Nov 15 2009, 11:46 PM) *
I have installed snow leopard 10.6.2 (by following the guide on lifehacker) on a Gigabyte EP43-DS3l motherboard and everything is running great... except for the DVD drive, a Pioneer DVR-216D. SATA is set to AHCI, and while the hard drives are clearly operating at full speed, the DVD drive won't push past a 1x read/write speed. I have switched the SATA ports around, and even swapped in a Sony Optiarc but the results do not change. I tried the newest ICH10 kext from this forum but it had no effect. 10.5.8 didn't have this issue for me. Could someone please offer me some advice? It would be much appreciated! smile.gif


Solved! Had to set the SATA port to native mode.
iOSX86_iATKOS
Nov 18 2009, 06:36 AM
QUOTE (kazumotokun @ Nov 17 2009, 06:52 AM) *
Solved! Had to set the SATA port to native mode.



How did you set SATA port to native mode?
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