2twisty Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 I've got the 10.4.8 JAS OSX86 installed on my Dimension 4700. Everything is working fine. Sound, NIC. It's wonderful. However, I've installed Parallels and WinXP and when parallels starts up, it complains that it cannot load the CD/DVD-Rom device (I don't have the exact error with me at the moment) I've searched the parallels forums, and this problem was somewhat common in some of the early betas and was fixed some time ago. I have another PC that is based on the same chipset (Intel 915) but this is a PC I built myself from an MSI 915G motherboard. Parallels works fine on that motherboard. The only real difference I can see immediately is that the Dell motherboard configures the SATA ports as the 1st and 2nd IDE ports and the PATA ports as #3 and #4. The MSI 915G still assigns the PATA ports as #1, etc and the SATA ports come later. Has anyone experienced this? I'd like to try using a SATA DVD drive, but I don't have one and don't want to buy one just for a test. If you've seen this and have any feedback, please let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_nugget Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Hey, I had this problem too (Dell 4700 with JasOS 10.4.8) - I find that it is caused by parallels beind connected to the CD-ROM drive, then either parallels is shut down or suspended and the disc ejected, then if parallels is started. It also occurs if Mac OS X is accessing the disc before parallels get to it. This also happens on my real Mac (core 2 MBP 15") Once parallels has the disc (If you manually select it) it should work fine again. I also get similar problems where switching between an ISO and a real disc on my mac and dell. Cheers, Josh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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