On Jan 20, 2009, at 5:36 PM, PeterH wrote:

>
>
> On Jan 20, 2009, at 1:24 PM, insightinmind wrote:
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>>> 1) My DVD burners (LiteOn and Pioneer) won't work off of it, and
>>>
>>> 2) The drives attached to it don't show up in System Profiler.
>>
>> In Tiger 10.4.11, I believe there's a known bug that makes Tiger not
>> list them in the System Profiler. My ATA100 isn't listed either, as
>> an "ATA" device tree drive. It does come up under the PCI cards
>> listing.
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> The PCI PATA cards model the drives as SCSI, not as PATA.

Not to be argumentative, just informative: my Seagate PATA 80GB  
harddrive shows up under Disk Utility as an ATA drive:

Disk Description :      ST380021A       Total Capacity :        74.5 GB 
(80,026,361,856  
Bytes)
Connection Bus :        ATA             Write Status :          Read/Write
Connection Type :       Internal        S.M.A.R.T. Status :     Verified
Connection ID :         Device 1        Partition Scheme :      Apple Partition 
Map

The Sonnet (Ultratek) PCI ATA100 is what I am using for my ATA channel.

The harddrive does not show up under System Profiler's ATA listing  
nor does it show up under what Apple calls Parallel SCSI. When I  
highlight the listing of the PCI card, the drive does not show up  
there ... just the PCI card. I'm not sure who told me there is a  
"known bug" in Tiger regarding listing of PATA harddrives. I do  
remember along the way that they were treated as some form of SCSI.

So if the PCI cards model them as SCSI, is that why they don't show  
up in Tiger's Apple System Profiler?

Bill Connelly
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