Greetings,

Just finished installing iDeneb's 10.5.5 v1.3 but my DVD burner isn't being recognized. I thought it used to work with iDeneb's 10.5..4.

Anyone have any suggestions on how I can fix this?

Thanks

Try this http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?act...st&id=36067 (install with kexthelper, but before delete old kext).

Good luck, Giorgio.

I apologize for my bad english.

Thank you very much for the reply. I will give it a try when I get home. Your English is fine. Are u Greek or Italian?

Italian

Hello from a Greek neighbor!

****update. Ok, I read up on how to use 'kexthelper'. I simply dragged & dropped the download you provided me here and now my Leopard is messed up. I cannot boot into it, I get to the white loading screen with the apple logo and it hangs there. W

What happened, and how can I get back to my previous state?


Ok, I've never used kexthelper before. Do I just drop the entire folder from your previous post onto kexthelper? Anything more to it than that?

Thanks again.

Boot with -v flag and post the error.

Ok, I'll do that.

On a side note, I know what I did wrong when installing the kexts you provided. I unzipped them while in windows, which caused the problem as some of the contents were not unzipped properly due to filenames being too long. I should have unzipped the package while running in Leopard.

Ok, there is a long list of repetitive errors and I could not write them all out (don't know if a screens shot is possible in that mode) but it starts with:

"error while starting up the computer"
waiting 5 seconds

---then----

first one was extension com.apple.iokit.IOATAFamily cannot be found

couldn't allocate class "AppleonboardPCATARoot"
" "AppleGenericPCATAPCIRoot"
" "Apple VIAATARoot"

after this there were other messages about associations and then these were repeated and it finished at
"waiting for root"

From windows with macdrive cancel IOATAFamily.kext and replace it with the backup of the old kext (if you have made a copy of the old) and then unzip the kext from Leopard and reinstall it.

Since my last post, I went ahead and just reinstalled Leopard. After that, I used kextkelper and properly installed the download from the link you provided. After a reboot, it started up just fine BUT no change with my DVD drive Still wasn't showing.

Hello. I suggest you try Giorgi's kext again.

I have iDeneb 1.3 (10.5.5) with same problem, and kext fixed my problem.

namely, after you boot with correctly installed kext, if it doesn't work, then probably after the kext was loaded, then depending on your hard-drives configuration - the order in which OSX lays them out may have changed. For example Disk0 is pushed to being Disk1, and a new Disk0 is now showing. And as such, you need to tell the system to boot from Disk1.

you can do that by clicking F8 and boot with rd=disk1s1, or rd=disk0s1, or rd=disk1s2, or rd=disk0s2

Also add -V and -F (-v to see the errors, -f to make sure it loads the kext from disk rather from cache)

Ok, I will try the -V -F commands to get a clearer look as to what is loading.

On the other hand, I wondering if this problem would be solved if I could run the computer in AHCI mode vs IDE (from in the BIOS).

Thanks