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Mine does the same thing on the boot drive, which is a SATA drive in AHCI mode. The Jmicron controller on my motherboard is in IDE mode and the HD attached to it looks like a normal internal drive.

 

Unfortunately, my Leopard install will not boot with the drive on the Jmicron ports...only the ICH8R ports in AHCI mode. If I change them to normal IDE mode, no boot. So it looks like I'm stuck with AHCI mode until a solution is found.

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Here's a fix that worked for me. I found it posted in another thread...I think by MacManiac. This corrected my problem but YMMV.

 

To correct hard drive icons incorrectly displayed as external drive icons:

 

Open up Terminal

 

sudo -s

 

<password> enter

 

mv /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns.back

 

cp /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/Internal.icns /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns

 

chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext

chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext

 

reboot

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Here's a fix that worked for me. I found it posted in another thread...I think by MacManiac. This corrected my problem but YMMV.

 

To correct hard drive icons incorrectly displayed as external drive icons:

 

Open up Terminal

 

sudo -s

 

<password> enter

 

mv /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns.back

 

cp /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/Internal.icns /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns

 

chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext

chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext

 

reboot

 

 

Thanx a lot for this tip!!

 

I did it in my asus p5k-e and it worked!

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You could always look up patches for your intel chipsets that allow for IDE mode. For instance I have ICH8 and I applied a patch that let me boot into leopard with IDE mode as opposed to AHCI, with either Jmicron or Intel. I have 2 drives in each, so I know they work fine.

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Would that kext allow me to use my mobo's IDE connector for a drive?

I can use my IDE CD-RW, but I need to use an IDE to USB to connect an old HD.

 

How do I undo the script of the icons? I applied it and now I want to go back.

 

Thanks,

Rodrigo

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Here's a fix that worked for me. I found it posted in another thread...I think by MacManiac. This corrected my problem but YMMV.

 

To correct hard drive icons incorrectly displayed as external drive icons:

 

Open up Terminal

 

sudo -s

 

<password> enter

 

mv /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns.back

 

cp /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/Internal.icns /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext/Contents/Resources/External.icns

 

chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext

chmod -R 755 /System/Library/Extensions/IOStorageFamily.kext

 

reboot

 

thank you very much ciao :)

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