mcdull Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 I don't want to waste money on another SATA DVD, please let me know if you have any solution. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mysticmac Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Just buy a USB box, put your IDE DVD in and boot on USB. Easy, works and cheap ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bench Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Yes, I also couldn't boot from Ide DVD-drive, on Asus P5B Deluxe, with USB DVD-drive works perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azurael Posted January 8, 2008 Share Posted January 8, 2008 Yes, it's fine, so long as the disk has JMicron support, and you set the controller to 'IDE' mode in the BIOS. Uphuck 10.4.9 1.2 definitely has the kext, as does a BrazilMac modded 10.5 (although under 10.5 you can delete the AppleVia kext and just add the deviceID to JMicron.kext after installing, which works better although it is a bit verbose - not great if you want to go back and read your system log.) However, the controller is a real POS, under any OS. It seems it was causing me bad burns for a long time, since the drive which was hooked up to it is now hooked up to an ICH7's native IDE port and it works fine. You won't regret getting an SATA DVD drive in the long term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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