atapi DVD DRIVE NOT WORKING IN iATKOS v7 but shows up in about this mac

[u27westa]

im kina new to all this mac stuff so here is goes:

 

recently i managed to get iATKOS v7 leopard to install on an "intel desktop board" based pc, everything works great accept the dvd drive isnt showing up on the eject button on the task bar and neither is it showing up on the desktop if i put a disk into it. The strange part is that when i go into "about this mac" the drive shows up under "ATA BUS" as a "ATAPI DVDROM 16x"

 

please help i really need this pc to be able to write dvds

 

Thanks in advance

 

Andy

[gyozadude]

I'm pretty new to Mac OS X too, so not sure how much help I could be. But some things that have gotten me around the issues of ATAPI optical drives that you might try:

 

1. Go to Applications -> Utilities -> disk utility and see if the disk util sees it. If it doesn't, that's a problem likely with hardware/bios like your ribbon cable, your interface connector/adapter, your master/slave jumper, etc. (many of me slim IDE optical drive adapters which I paid just a buck for on eBay from HKG/China aren't truly compliant with standards - and the time I wasted with these wasn't worth the savings...). Sometimes, I've read others have issues with IDE disk and dvd drive on the same cable if disk is the Master, and optical is slave. Some folks swear by reversing the order - make Optical the master and Disk the slave. I have a combo system - SATA HD, and primary master IDE DVD burner. Works okay and plays DVDs just fine. But check BIOS on boot and enumerate drives that it sees and if they are properly setup as master/slave (no slaves without masters) and that each SATA drive can be seen.

 

2. Maybe your bootloader, or DSDT.aml file in /Extra/ directory are not really compatible with your system or it could be that your system is just slightly different and so the IOATA driver you're using isn't happy. First thing to check is if your Distro of OSX includes an IOATAFamily.kext and if it's installed in /Extra/Extensions or /System/Library/Extensions (/S/L/E). If the default isn't working for you, try web search for IOATAFamily.kext and your chipset/mobo version if applicable and download a copy onto a USB stick, or if your networking is up, just go on the browser and download it and unpack it, or if you download to another system, scp the wad over. And then once unpacked, copy the whole directory to /Extra/Extensions:

 

$ cd /path/where/u/unpacked/IOATAFamily.kext

$ sudo cp -pr IOATAFamily.kext to /Extra/Extensions

 

Or if you're an old UNIX guy like me, you might simply:

 

$ su - root [input password]

# mv /Extra/Extensions/IOATAFamily.kext /Extra/Extensions/IOATAFamily.kext.bak ( <-optional if you already have older kext and it ain't working)

# cp -pr IOATAFamily.kext /Extra/Extensions/

 

Then get a kext utility (search for the latest) and install it and run it. Will take a minute to rebuild your kext caches in both /S/L/E and /Extra/Extensions. Then reboot this time and see if SysProfiler and disk util see your drive now and if so, stick a DVD in there and is it recognized?