Dell XPS 1340 under OSX 10.6, including boot-132 install cd

[rameshb_v]

Does nobody has any clue y the graphic card isnt working under osx 3.6 universal ?

 

Can any one tell me how to install SL using this OSX 3.6 universal on XPS 1340 plz ?

 

Update: Installed SL using the OSX 3.6 universal and want to dual boot with windows 7.

Now I get the Boot0: error.. Can any one help me please ?

Options chose:

Bootloader PC EFI 10.5 (chameleon 2)

NullCPUPM

PlatformUUID

FakeSMC

IOATA Kernel panic Fix

Legacy AHCI

[rameshb_v]

Does nobody has any clue y the graphic card isnt working under osx 3.6 universal ?

 

Can you give me instructions/settings for install using osx 3.6 universal plz ??

[rameshb_v]

Hmmn..Finally was able to install SL using Universal 3.6. The problem was due to the additional recovery and system partitions. I got rid of all those extra partitions and now only have 2 partitions for WIN7 & MACOS SL.

I applied all the kexts & fixes listed by bcc9... Many thanks...

My sleep function does not work properly. It goes to sleep but does not wake up.. Is this a known problem ? Any fixes ?

[bcc9]

Hmmn..Finally was able to install SL using Universal 3.6. The problem was due to the additional recovery and system partitions. I got rid of all those extra partitions and now only have 2 partitions for WIN7 & MACOS SL.

I applied all the kexts & fixes listed by bcc9... Many thanks...

My sleep function does not work properly. It goes to sleep but does not wake up.. Is this a known problem ? Any fixes ?

I think the problem is that you're using some unsupported repack of OSX instead of simply using the boot132+retail disk solution recommended in post #1. In an earlier post you mentioned using NullCPUPM from that repack even though post #1 explicitly indicates that you don't need such kexts. From prior tests&reports, I believe that kext is sabotaging your sleep behavior.

 

If you still want to use a repack, recommend you ask the repack authors for support instead of asking here.

[rameshb_v]

I think the problem is that you're using some unsupported repack of OSX instead of simply using the boot132+retail disk solution recommended in post #1. In an earlier post you mentioned using NullCPUPM from that repack even though post #1 explicitly indicates that you don't need such kexts. From prior tests&reports, I believe that kext is sabotaging your sleep behavior.

 

If you still want to use a repack, recommend you ask the repack authors for support instead of asking here.

 

You are the man.. I have removed the NullCPUPM.kext and generated the kextcache. Now sleep works...Thanks bcc9..

[willpower101]

So off the technical topic for a minute. Besides the support for 8gb of ddr3 ram what benefits would I see of getting this laptop over a 13.3 inch macbook? it looks like either could be had on ebay for around 800$ +/-. If I get a macbook, it's going to work out of the box and then I can throw win7 bootcamp or vmware fusion on it. If I get this I have to do an awful lot of configuration before I can get osx running on it. Is it really worth the trouble? (I have a hackintosh quad core desktop at home that's a nice hack but a hell of a beast to maintain anytime something breaks.)

[bcc9]

So off the technical topic for a minute. Besides the support for 8gb of ddr3 ram what benefits would I see of getting this laptop over a 13.3 inch macbook? it looks like either could be had on ebay for around 800$ +/-. If I get a macbook, it's going to work out of the box and then I can throw win7 bootcamp or vmware fusion on it. If I get this I have to do an awful lot of configuration before I can get osx running on it. Is it really worth the trouble? (I have a hackintosh quad core desktop at home that's a nice hack but a hell of a beast to maintain anytime something breaks.)

Here's the hardware benefits of the 1340 vs a macbook that I listed last march:

"Its hardware is superior to the macbook in I/O ports (has ESATA, expresscard, firewire, hdmi, standard displayport). Not to mention cost effective options: SSD drives (1/2 price of apple), 4GB memory standard, and so on."

 

At this late stage in the product life cycle I would wait for ultraportable laptops with mobile core i5. Nvidia's sata controller implementation has proved buggy in both apple and dell implementations. Not a big surprise as nvidia had a long history of sata controller problems.

 

That said if you truly need an OSX machine you should buy a mac, not depend upon unsupported experimental mods.

[willpower101]

i don't really need an osx machine. I use both at home, a primary quad core hack and a primary dell m1210 win7. I just like access to both.

 

One of the biggest things i noticed is that the sd card slot isn't working? Is there really no simple fix for this? I ask because I use the sd card slot on my m1210 ALL the time

[pratik.np]

hi there!

i tried the usb method... using boot 132 method and snow leopard 10a432.... but itsgives Waiting for root device...error... the hardrive is set to ahci mode... am i doing nething wrong??

[spyd3rm4n]

hi there!

i tried the usb method... using boot 132 method and snow leopard 10a432.... but itsgives Waiting for root device...error... the hardrive is set to ahci mode... am i doing nething wrong??

 

 

 

After a long day of experimentation, I was able to create a bootable USB from a retail Snow Leopard disc; essentially you have to load chameleon onto the USB stick so the installer is bootable.

 

My only issue now is that the default installation doesn't support the built in keyboard and trackpad of my Studio XPS 1340. Is there any way to modify the kexts that the installer uses?

 

Without a keyboard or trackpad I can't proceed through the installer (stuck at 'choose language'). Since one of my USB ports is occupied by the installer stick, am I to plug/unplug keyboard or mouse as needed throughout the installer?

 

Ideally I'd like to be able to have my USB installer stick with some working keyboard drivers for the installer.

[kalewallace]

After a long day of experimentation, I was able to create a bootable USB from a retail Snow Leopard disc; essentially you have to load chameleon onto the USB stick so the installer is bootable.

 

My only issue now is that the default installation doesn't support the built in keyboard and trackpad of my Studio XPS 1340. Is there any way to modify the kexts that the installer uses?

 

Without a keyboard or trackpad I can't proceed through the installer (stuck at 'choose language'). Since one of my USB ports is occupied by the installer stick, am I to plug/unplug keyboard or mouse as needed throughout the installer?

 

Ideally I'd like to be able to have my USB installer stick with some working keyboard drivers for the installer.

 

 

Once you install Chameleon onto the USB and make it bootable, it should contain the /Extra folder. Place the keyboard/mouse kexts from bcc9's initial post in the /Extra/Extensions folder, make a .mkext, and the installer will load these kexts at boot.

[Cow_King]

I made the bootable USB with a mac and made the bootable CD using the file link on the first post my xps 1340 boots intot he chamelion screen and i choose the USB install it runs through and says a ton of stuff but it always just stops at one point or another what am i doing wrong?

 

IT gets all the way done loading its stuff it seems it never gets tot he screen for me to choose to install Snow it stops with a ton of writing ont he screen and at the bottom says

 

"System uptime in nanoseconds: 3429608326

 

 

i know i sounds like a nub i really do know how to do this stuff (kinda) i i osx on my desktop i did myself and i ahve installed it on 2 dell mini 10v's and an asus netbook but i just cant seem to get this thing to work for me and i know its because i am doing somehting wrong

 

Any help at all would be awesome thanks much

[bcc9]

I made the bootable USB with a mac and made the bootable CD using the file link on the first post my xps 1340 boots intot he chamelion screen and i choose the USB install it runs through and says a ton of stuff but it always just stops at one point or another what am i doing wrong?

 

IT gets all the way done loading its stuff it seems it never gets tot he screen for me to choose to install Snow it stops with a ton of writing ont he screen and at the bottom says

 

"System uptime in nanoseconds: 3429608326

 

 

i know i sounds like a nub i really do know how to do this stuff (kinda) i i osx on my desktop i did myself and i ahve installed it on 2 dell mini 10v's and an asus netbook but i just cant seem to get this thing to work for me and i know its because i am doing somehting wrong

 

Any help at all would be awesome thanks much

So that would be a kernel panic, and the "ton of writing" would be the important part that you need to look at to know exactly what the panic was about.

Just guessing, but the most likely case is your kext cache was malformed, which seems to often be from doing something other than exactly what is in post #1.

[Vors]

Hi, I just installed from a different boot cd than the one provided because I kept getting the error 'cannot find mach_kernel' even after pressing F5, the boot cd would not update the screen to reflect the disc in the drive.

 

Everything installed then I used the post 1 boot cd to boot the os, which worked. I had sound but no wireless (10.6)

 

After installing chameleon rc4 and the kexts from the disc, (also edited boot plist and mkdir /Extra to put in the DSD... file) I reboot, and have no sound, no wireless, no battery indicator and no bluetooth...

 

here is my kernel.log

Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: npvhash=4095
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: PAE enabled
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: 64 bit mode enabled
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: Darwin Kernel Version 10.2.0: Tue Nov  3 10:37:10 PST 2009; root:xnu-1486.2.11~1/RELEASE_I386
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: vm_page_bootstrap: 706172 free pages and 14724 wired pages
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: standard timeslicing quantum is 10000 us
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: mig_table_max_displ = 73
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=0 LocalApicId=0 Enabled
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: AppleACPICPU: ProcessorId=1 LocalApicId=1 Enabled
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for Quarantine
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Quarantine policy (Quarantine)
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for Sandbox
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Seatbelt sandbox policy (Sandbox)
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: calling mpo_policy_init for TMSafetyNet
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: Security policy loaded: Safety net for Time Machine (TMSafetyNet)
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: MAC Framework successfully initialized
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: using 14417 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: IOAPIC: Version 0x11 Vectors 64:87
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: ACPI: System State [S0 S3 S4 S5] (S3)
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: RTC: Only single RAM bank (128 bytes)
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: mbinit: done (64 MB memory set for mbuf pool)
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: Not loading kext com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController - not found and kextd not available in early boot.
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: netkas presents fakesmc, a kext which emulates smc device
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: From path: "uuid", 
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting for boot volume with UUID 8E571E83-37E3-374F-A1C7-3FD3537DC109
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOProviderClass</key><string ID="1">IOResources</string><key>IOResourceMatch</key><string ID="2">boot-uuid-media</string></dict>
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: FireWire runtime power conservation disabled. (2)
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: com.apple.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib load succeeded
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient: ready
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: USBF:	0.632	AppleUSBOHCI[0x518b000]::InitializeOperationalRegisters Non-NULL hcDoneHead: 0x6ffefa90
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: Got boot device = IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SAT0@B/AppleMCP79AHCI/PRI0@0/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/ST9250421ASG Media/IOGUIDPartitionScheme/Untitled@2
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: BSD root: disk0s2, major 14, minor 2
Mar  3 22:37:29 localhost kernel[0]: FireWire (OHCI) VendorID 1180 ID 832 PCI now active, GUID 354fc00000e62890; max speed s400.
Mar  3 22:37:31 localhost kernel[0]: AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement: initialization complete
Mar  3 22:37:36 localhost kernel[0]: systemShutdown false
Mar  3 22:37:36 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: Sound assertion "0 == pciVendorProductID" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-179.1.4/AppleHDAController/AppleHDAController.cpp" at line 2682 goto Exit
Mar  3 22:37:38 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: Previous Shutdown Cause: 3
Mar  3 22:37:38 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.
Mar  3 22:37:38 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: Sound assertion ""( kRequestStateMatch == fCodecRequest->state )"" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-179.1.4/AppleHDAController/AppleHDAController.cpp" at line 3621 goto handler
Mar  3 22:37:38 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: Sound assertion "0 != executeCodecCommand ( fCodecList[addr], command, &fCodecVendorProductIDArray[addr] )" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-179.1.4/AppleHDAController/AppleHDAController.cpp" at line 2967 goto Exit
Mar  3 22:37:38 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: Atheros: mac 128.2 phy 13.0 radio 12.0
Mar  3 22:37:38 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: ApplePS2Controller: Timed out on mouse input stream.
Mar  3 22:37:39: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: VoodooPS2SynapticsTouchPad loaded
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: VoodooPS2Trackpad: Synaptics TouchPad v7.2
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: Warning - kext com.superhai.driver.VoodooPower has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel* and com.apple.kpi.* components; use only one style.
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: VoodooPower.kext: Max vid: 1f Min vid: 17
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: VoodooPower.kext: cid: 18 6 13
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: VoodooPower.kext: Lastgoodcid: 13 13
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: VoodooPower.kext: P-State now  0: FID-09 DID-00 VID-1F (12)
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: VoodooPower.kext: P-State now  1: FID-08 DID-00 VID-1D (11)
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: VoodooPower.kext: P-State now  2: FID-07 DID-00 VID-1A (0F)
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: VoodooPower.kext: P-State now  3: FID-06 DID-00 VID-17 (0D)
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: DSMOS has arrived
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: VoodooPower.kext: VoodooPower.kext 1.2.3 (Release) Sep  6 2009 19:46:06 [1060]
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: VoodooPower.kext: (C) 2008-09 Superhai, All Rights Reserved
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: NVEthernet: Ethernet address 00:22:19:e7:29:6a
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: AirPort_AthrFusion21: Ethernet address 00:22:5f:87:79:3c
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: IO80211Controller::dataLinkLayerAttachComplete():  adding AppleEFINVRAM notification
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: IO80211Interface::efiNVRAMPublished():  
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: ATHR: unknown locale: 60
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: WARNING - ACPI_SMC_CtrlLoop::initCPUCtrlLoop - no sub-config match for MacBookPro4,1 with 3 p-states, using default stepper instead
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: Sound assertion ""( kRequestStateMatch == fCodecRequest->state )"" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-179.1.4/AppleHDAController/AppleHDAController.cpp" at line 3621 goto handler
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: Sound assertion "0 != err" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-179.1.4/IOHDAFamily/IOHDACodecDevice.cpp" at line 147 goto Exit
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: FakeSMC: key not found BEMB, length - 1
Mar  3 22:37:39 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: Sound assertion "0 == codecListArray" failed in "/SourceCache/AppleHDA/AppleHDA-179.1.4/AppleHDA/AppleHDACodecGeneric.cpp" at line 126 goto Exit
Mar  3 22:37:40: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar  3 22:37:40 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: NVEthernet::setLinkStatus - Valid but not Active
Mar  3 22:37:40 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Down on en1. Reason 1 (Unspecified).
Mar  3 22:37:40 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: ATHR: unknown locale: 60
Mar  3 22:37:40 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: Ethernet [nvenet]: Link up on en0, 100-Megabit, Full-duplex, No flow-control, Debug [796d,0000,01e1,0065,45e1,0000]
Mar  3 22:37:40 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: NVEthernet::setLinkStatus - link Valid and Active
Mar  3 22:37:45 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: ATHR: unknown locale: 60
Mar  3 22:51:57 Vorss-Mac-Pro kernel[0]: ATHR: unknown locale: 60
Vorss-Mac-Pro:~ vors$

 

Does anyone know what's going on?

 

Thanks,

 

Vors

[Vors]

Sorry, got it working now. Reinstalled and put the kexts from post#1 in /Extra/Extensions and not the stuff from the cd.

 

Dunno why I couldn't boot from the iso though...

[Cow_King]

So that would be a kernel panic, and the "ton of writing" would be the important part that you need to look at to know exactly what the panic was about.

Just guessing, but the most likely case is your kext cache was malformed, which seems to often be from doing something other than exactly what is in post #1.

 

I made the boot CD with your link and it works and comes up i have a retail version of snow leopard i have put onto a 16gb usb i tell it to boot from it and it starts running things likes its going to work and then it stops, from what i inderstand in your first post i have done what i am supose to.

 

I am not the best at this and i will do anything u tell me to to get this workin thx much

[Cow_King]

I made the boot CD with your link and it works and comes up i have a retail version of snow leopard i have put onto a 16gb usb i tell it to boot from it and it starts running things likes its going to work and then it stops, from what i inderstand in your first post i have done what i am supose to.

 

I am not the best at this and i will do anything u tell me to to get this workin thx much

 

I got it working i used the same steps i was doing i just went to ignore cache and it went to install

Weird thing is when i installed everything seemed to be working out of the box audio and what not. after installing chameleon and the kexts fromt he first page it wouldnt even boot so i used the cd to boot and swapped the Extra folder formt he boot cd witht he one that i had put the files in.

 

After that it would boot just fine without the CD but sound no longer works and mouse pad no longer works the multitouch and everything was working out fo the box but now nothing and i cant seem to get it to work.

 

I have the hard drive partitioned and i am installing windows 7 on one and snow on the other so i am gonna go aheaded and install windows 7 then reinstall snow and see how that works out i will check back thx much

[spyd3rm4n]

I got it working i used the same steps i was doing i just went to ignore cache and it went to install

Weird thing is when i installed everything seemed to be working out of the box audio and what not. after installing chameleon and the kexts fromt he first page it wouldnt even boot so i used the cd to boot and swapped the Extra folder formt he boot cd witht he one that i had put the files in.

 

After that it would boot just fine without the CD but sound no longer works and mouse pad no longer works the multitouch and everything was working out fo the box but now nothing and i cant seem to get it to work.

 

I have the hard drive partitioned and i am installing windows 7 on one and snow on the other so i am gonna go aheaded and install windows 7 then reinstall snow and see how that works out i will check back thx much

 

If you installed the Voodoo kexts for PS2 support and the audio (in /Extra/Extensions) you should be OK. Boot into SL (use a USB keyboard/mouse if you can't use the trackpad) and update the kextcache:

 

rm -f /Extra/Extensions.mkext /Extra/Caches

kextcache -m /Extra/Extensions.mkext /Extra/Extensions

[lennyG]

I was able to install snow leopard to my 1340 successfully with bcc9's instructions. Thank you bcc9!

one weird thing is that i cannot use chameleon RC4.

With RC3, everything is working perfect except waking up from deep sleep. So, I've tried install RC4, then stuck in the first line of booting process. It seems that reading sleepimage fails. RC5 prerelease showed the same symptom for me.

Any suggestions? I have WIN7, OSX, FAT32 disk for data on a GPT disk.

[hxh103]

OP said there are tutorials for 10.6, is there any newb tutorials for 10.6 on the 1340? I haven't found any so far.

[+eCHO+]

Is anyone else having issues with the DVD drive on startup? I've tried 10.6 - 10.6.2 and am having the same results. On startup, if there is a CD/DVD in the drive, OSX boots up fine and and I'm able to swap discs around no problem. However, if I start up OSX without a disc in the drive, the drive will not work at all in OSX. Odd thing, though, is that System Profiler hangs if I select the Disc Burning field, though the Serial-ATA tab reports the drive no problems (TS-D663A connected to a MCP79 ACHI port). Any help would be appreciated.

[bcc9]

I was able to install snow leopard to my 1340 successfully with bcc9's instructions. Thank you bcc9!

one weird thing is that i cannot use chameleon RC4.

With RC3, everything is working perfect except waking up from deep sleep. So, I've tried install RC4, then stuck in the first line of booting process. It seems that reading sleepimage fails. RC5 prerelease showed the same symptom for me.

Any suggestions? I have WIN7, OSX, FAT32 disk for data on a GPT disk.

I've been using chameleon RC4 since it came out, no problems here. Sleep&resume work; no error messages concerning sleepimage.

[bcc9]

Is anyone else having issues with the DVD drive on startup? I've tried 10.6 - 10.6.2 and am having the same results. On startup, if there is a CD/DVD in the drive, OSX boots up fine and and I'm able to swap discs around no problem. However, if I start up OSX without a disc in the drive, the drive will not work at all in OSX. Odd thing, though, is that System Profiler hangs if I select the Disc Burning field, though the Serial-ATA tab reports the drive no problems (TS-D663A connected to a MCP79 ACHI port). Any help would be appreciated.

If I boot 10.6 without a CD/DVD mounted, I can insert one after boot and it mounts just fine.

Actually now that my optical drive is a year old it sometimes takes 2 or 3 tries to mount things, but that's not an OS specific problem

My optical drive is an HL-DT-ST G20N.

 

OP said there are tutorials for 10.6, is there any newb tutorials for 10.6 on the 1340? I haven't found any so far.

I haven't seen one, but post #1 plus generic newbie help that is all over this site should fill in the gaps. Newbie info isn't 1340 specific anyways.

I keep recommending you guys make your own 1340 newbie thread but nobody does...

[+eCHO+]

Thanks for the reply, bcc9. The TS-D633A is a Samsung drive, though I can't see why that would matter to the ATAPI driver. I guess I'll look at the IOAHCISerialATAPI kext and see if I can figure out something there. In the meantime, what brand is your drive? Would that be a Hitachi, by chance? Again, thanks for the reply.

[bcc9]

Thanks for the reply, bcc9. The TS-D633A is a Samsung drive, though I can't see why that would matter to the ATAPI driver. I guess I'll look at the IOAHCISerialATAPI kext and see if I can figure out something there. In the meantime, what brand is your drive? Would that be a Hitachi, by chance? Again, thanks for the reply.

HL-DT-ST, per my last post, meaning Hitachi LG Data Storage.