jerryk Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 Hi, I successfully installed iTKAOS from my SATA DVD drive. However, when I throw an installation DVD in the drive, the drive does not appear on the desktop. Also, the drive does not appear in the finder under "Devices". Any ideas? Jerry Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172377-cant-find-dvd-drive/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 Hard to offer any help with that little information. Does the drive appear in the System Profiler? Hold the option key while clicking the apple menu, click System Profiler, then click Serial-ATA in the left pane. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172377-cant-find-dvd-drive/#findComment-1186076 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumbochilli Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 Hard to offer any help with that little information. Does the drive appear in the System Profiler? Hold the option key while clicking the apple menu, click System Profiler, then click Serial-ATA in the left pane. Hi, I hope I'm not intercepting, but I have the same problem OP does. I've installed "ideneb" 10.5.6 on my acer 4720 laptop, but OSX would not recognize the dvd drive. I've followed your advice and found only hard drive on "serial-ATA" not dvd drive. In case experts out there want to know, here goes my spec; installed OS:ideneb 10.5.6 CPU: intel core 2 duo T5450 1.66ghz Ram:4GB ddr3-667mhz HD: hitachi HTS541616J9SA00 ATA device Display: mobile intel 965 express chipset family DVD drive: HL-DT-ST-DVD ram GSA-T20N ATA device( NOT WORKING ) Sound: High Definition Audio Device device id:0x1025011D(NOT WORKING) Network: broadcom netlink gigabit ethernet(NOT WORKING) intel pro/wireless 3945bg network connection(NOT WORKING) Advice much appreciated. J.C Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172377-cant-find-dvd-drive/#findComment-1187009 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 As both of you were able to boot and install using the same DVD drive, the install DVDs you were using both contain drivers for the controller your DVD drive is plugged in to - otherwise it wouldn't have been able to boot from the DVD at all and you would just get the famous 'waiting for root device' error that people ask about here everyday instead of using the search and finding their answer in two seconds. You just didn't select the right drivers under customize install. You can use Pacifist to extract kernel extensions from your install DVDs. Of course you still need to discover what controller the DVD drive is attached to so that you can pick a driver accordingly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172377-cant-find-dvd-drive/#findComment-1187204 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ufo_all Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 some drivers not working i too have same problem i've installed XXX 10.5.6 no dvd is dected but after installing kalyway it shows dvd on desktop... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172377-cant-find-dvd-drive/#findComment-1187305 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 You don't have to reinstall when something like that happens. You can find drivers for most stuff here and install them yourself. The drivers that are available on all the different OSx86 install DVDs are mostly taken from here and/or other hackintosh forums anyway. And as I said, if you could install from the DVD using the same DVD drive, that means that the install DVD you used already has the required driver on it, and that you downgraded to Kalyway for nothing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172377-cant-find-dvd-drive/#findComment-1187340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumbochilli Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 As both of you were able to boot and install using the same DVD drive, the install DVDs you were using both contain drivers for the controller your DVD drive is plugged in to - otherwise it wouldn't have been able to boot from the DVD at all and you would just get the famous 'waiting for root device' error that people ask about here everyday instead of using the search and finding their answer in two seconds. You just didn't select the right drivers under customize install. You can use Pacifist to extract kernel extensions from your install DVDs. Of course you still need to discover what controller the DVD drive is attached to so that you can pick a driver accordingly. Thanks for the reply, but frankly all your words go over my head. As you see, I'm SUPER noob, this whole "kext" "kernel" thingies are all new to me- trying hard to catch up with you guys out there- so, PLEASE do not tell me to "go away". O.K, would anyone kindly explain to me what exactly I am in need of, I don't even know what words to type on search bar. Any explanation regarding "how to use pacifist" would be much appreciated. Thanks and have a nice day. J.C from Thailand Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172377-cant-find-dvd-drive/#findComment-1187359 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 Any explanation regarding "how to use pacifist" would be much appreciated. Download it, install it, read the manual. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172377-cant-find-dvd-drive/#findComment-1187436 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumbochilli Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 Download it, install it, read the manual. Thanks for the very informative reply, I whole heatedly appreciate. I guess a person like you with more than a thousand posts would know that there are more than few people who's got absolutely no idea about this hackintosh thing-like me, but would like to learn(know) from scratch. I was genuinely confused about what you've said in earlier post, well, maybe I used those smilies wrong. If my post unintentionally wound you up, I'd apologize. Thanks for your time anyway. J.C Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172377-cant-find-dvd-drive/#findComment-1187549 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerryk Posted June 28, 2009 Author Share Posted June 28, 2009 Hard to offer any help with that little information. Does the drive appear in the System Profiler? Hold the option key while clicking the apple menu, click System Profiler, then click Serial-ATA in the left pane. No drives appear in the Serial-ATA. The drives that do not show include both hard drives and DVD drives connected via SATA. The system boots from a USB hard drive. The motherboard is an ASUS a8V deluxe. The processor is a q9300. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172377-cant-find-dvd-drive/#findComment-1187607 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerryk Posted June 28, 2009 Author Share Posted June 28, 2009 No drives appear in the Serial-ATA. The drives that do not show include both hard drives and DVD drives connected via SATA. The system boots from a USB hard drive. The motherboard is an ASUS a8V deluxe. The processor is a q9300. I got it working. I installed the driver per the instructions in the post below. I rebooted with -f and the sata drives, including the DVD showed up. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...l=sata%20driver Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172377-cant-find-dvd-drive/#findComment-1187630 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted June 28, 2009 Share Posted June 28, 2009 I guess a person like you with more than a thousand posts would know that there are more than few people who's got absolutely no idea about this hackintosh thing-like me, but would like to learn(know) from scratch. Of course. But I'm not going to spoon feed you like a baby. Tell me why I should write a tutorial on how to use software that has perfectly fine documentation available. If you don't know what a 'kext' or a 'drive controller' is, look it up and find out!! It's easier, not to mention faster if you do a little searching yourself instead of waiting for an answer from some random idiot with +1300 posts on an internet forum. Here's a push in the right direction.. http://www.charlessoft.com/Pacifist_Docume...lish/index.html http://www.insanelymac.com/category/osx86/osx86-basics/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Technology_Attachment http://apple2pc.blogspot.com/2008/04/all-about-kext.html Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/172377-cant-find-dvd-drive/#findComment-1187718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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