ducman Posted September 17, 2009 Share Posted September 17, 2009 I've been running Mac OS X on a Bad Axe II based hack for a long time. Everything was great (well, no sound after sleep...) until I upgraded to Snow Leopard. Before, I never had any trouble burning DVDs at 8X. Now, while Toast Ti 9Toast Titanium 10 shows 8X as an option in the available speeds, I never get an actual speed higher than 1X. No changes to hardware or software other than upgrading to SL, disks from the same package, and following the same process as before. Verification after the burn also takes much longer than before, so it seems like SL just thinks this drive is only capable of 1X speeds. Am I the only one having this problem? Any suggestions? Bad Axe II aka Bad Axe 2 aka Intel D975XBX, PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-111D I've found some posts that say IDE drives won't work with the Bad Axe 2, but I didn't run into any problems installing Snow Leopard. I have the Pioneer DVD drive on the IDE port, and a couple of SATA hard drives attached. My /Extras folder contains: IOAudioFamily.kext NullCPUPowerManagement.kext OSvKernDSPLib.kext OpenHaltRestart.kext PlatformUUID.kext SleepEnabler.kext VoodooHDA.kext fakesmc.kext Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187213-snow-leopard-toast-ti-10-slow-burning-dvds/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ducman Posted October 1, 2009 Author Share Posted October 1, 2009 I upgraded to Toast 10. No improvement. Anybody suggest what I can try to start figuring out what the problem is? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187213-snow-leopard-toast-ti-10-slow-burning-dvds/#findComment-1287007 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ducman Posted October 20, 2009 Author Share Posted October 20, 2009 I've found some posts that say IDE drives won't work with the Bad Axe 2, but I didn't run into any problems installing Snow Leopard. I have the Pioneer DVD drive on the IDE port, and a couple of SATA hard drives attached. My /Extras folder contains: IOAudioFamily.kext NullCPUPowerManagement.kext OSvKernDSPLib.kext OpenHaltRestart.kext PlatformUUID.kext SleepEnabler.kext VoodooHDA.kext fakesmc.kext I found a BA2 SL install guide that included an IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext, so I tried putting that in my /Extra folder. I got all excited when, after a reboot, System Profiler showed "Write Speeds:" populated, and Toast showed speeds up to 16X (the media I'm using) available. But when I tried burning a DVD, I still get only 1X burns and very slow verifies. Also, big Finder copies seem to really tie up my machine, now, so it looks like that kext was not the solution. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187213-snow-leopard-toast-ti-10-slow-burning-dvds/#findComment-1305293 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ducman Posted November 4, 2009 Author Share Posted November 4, 2009 I've found some posts that say IDE drives won't work with the Bad Axe 2, but I didn't run into any problems installing Snow Leopard. I have the Pioneer DVD drive on the IDE port, and a couple of SATA hard drives attached. I moved the Pioneer DVD writer to a Linux box so I can burn DVDs at reasonable speeds. When I swapped in a generic IDE DVD reader, Snow Leopard wouldn't even boot. Apparently the fact that my Pioneer burner is an "Apple supported" drive was the only thing that was letting it work, at all. I guess the only thing left to do is buy a SATA burner. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/187213-snow-leopard-toast-ti-10-slow-burning-dvds/#findComment-1319996 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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