Macintosh 1.1 internal 2 SATA Ports and Windows

Hi, I have a SATA DVD burner conncted to one of the two SATA ports behind the front fans. It wors good on MacOSX but it seen not to work on Windows. Is there any driver or other solution for that Problem?

Sry. I'm not sure if it is clear. Because of the headline. Its a Mac Pro 1.1.

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Do the SATA ports of the motherboard support hard drives? If so what drives?
I just tried three different drives connected to the those ports. 2 drives would not allow me to even boot. 1 (the original MacPro drive) would allow me to boot but was freezing the computer.
I am booting off the regular drive connectors not the motherboard ports.
Doyle

You might, it is a tight fit getting those in, but I've done it twice now.
Or the external case and cables. I'm sure somewhere along the way I forgot to hookup the cables inside a drive case and had to make sure it was getting power, spinning up, and the data cable and jumpers (scsi) was set correctly.

P55-GD65 - SATA port and driver installs for SSD ?

Please can anyone help...
I have a MSI P55-GD65 mb (AMI BIOS v1.2/012.020.000.015) and am about to do a clean install of Win 7 64 bit onto an unused Crucial M4 SSD (firmware rev 010G). After disconnecting my existing HDD from SATA1.....
Q1 Should I update the mb BIOS? I currently have no probs....if it aint broke....
Q2 Which SATA port should I connect the SSD to?
   SATA 1-6 ports are Intel P55, SATA7 is supported by JMicron JMB363
Assuming the next steps are:
   plug CD/DVD drive into SATA 4
   boot into the BIOS, enable AHCI and set the SSD as the primary boot drive after the CD/DVD drive
   boot from the Windows 7 disc and install the OS,
Q3What do I do about installing drivers?
Allow any default drivers to install from Win7, then install drivers from the mb disc (starting with chipset drivers), then update them with the latest from MSI. Or what?
I understand that rebooting after installing each driver (and the updates) is a good idea (NickN from SimForums), but this suggests a lot of reboots !
If some reboots can be left till several drivers are in, at which points should reboots be done if there are 5 or 6 drivers+updates to install? I wouldn't be bothering with any RAID configuration or the floppy drivers.
Finally..
Q4 At what point do I perform the firmware update of the Crucial SSD (to rev 040H) ? I'm assuming a driver install will be required for this.
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Q1 Should I update the mb BIOS? I currently have no probs....if it aint broke....
If all is well don't do anything.
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Q2 Which SATA port should I connect the SSD to?
SATA 1-6 ports are Intel P55, SATA7 is supported by JMicron JMB363
All of the ports are SATA II, so any port 1-6 would be fine. I suggest port 1 or the purchase of a sata III card. IE:
http://www.amazon.com/SIIG-SATA-6Gb-2-Port-PCIe/dp/B006Q4MGOM/ref=sr_1_3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1368545006&sr=1-3&keywords=sata+iii+card
Although I won't make a huge amount of difference.
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Q3What do I do about installing drivers?
Allow any default drivers to install from Win7, then install drivers from the mb disc (starting with chipset drivers), then update them with the latest from MSI. Or what?
I leave the internet disconnected until I have loaded all of the drivers. I also generally do an F6 installation with the most recent AHCI / Raid drivers available if applicable.
Once all of the drivers are install, I connect the internet and let it update.
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Q4 At what point do I perform the firmware update of the Crucial SSD (to rev 040H) ? I'm assuming a driver install will be required for this.
If there is a firmware update available, the best thing to do would be to install the ssd in another computer, update the firmware, then place it in your computer. (or keep the existing hdd in for a moment to do this)
Data loss is very possible during an ssd firmware update.

785G-E53 Randomly disappearing SATA ports and IDE errors

I'm having an issue with various SATA ports on this motherboard "disappearing" or becoming non-functional randomly. Shortly after I built the system I noticed that one of my SATA optical drives was not showing up in Windows -- moving it to another SATA connector on the motherboard resolved the issue and I chalked it up to a flaky connector and moved on. Recently my system started hanging for ~ 30 seconds or so every minute or two and the event viewer was filling up with errors about the IDE port my other optical drive was connected to not being available. I replaced the IDE cable and things returned to normal. A couple of days ago I noticed once again that the SATA optical drive (in its new connector) had disappeared. I have not had time to move it to another connector yet, and yesterday while browsing the web my system suddenly hung. Upon rebooting, my Samsung 1TB SATA drive could not be found during boot-up. I tried rebooting several times with no luck. I turned the PC off for the night. When I came back to it the next day, it found the drive and booted with no problems. After immediately backing up any recent data, I reviewed the drive's SMART info (pristine) and then moved on to the event viewer again. Apparently the IDE errors started a few hours prior to the HD's SATA port going AWOL.
There appears to be something flaky with the drive controllers on this motherboard, but I'm unsure how to confirm or troubleshoot this further. Since the problem occurs at POST and boot-up, it is obviously not a driver or software issue. I do not believe it to be PSU related -- the system has an OCZ 600W PSU and happily ran with a MSI GTX 560 Ti for months previously. The 560 is currently out of the system and I'm using the onboard graphics, so the PSU is under even less of a load...
I'm going to be installing a new SSD and finally getting around to installing Win7 on this machine so I would like to resolve any potential motherboard issue first. I'd appreciate any help you guys can offer.
Here are the system specs:
AMD Phenom II x6 1055T
MSI 785G-E53 motherboard
16GB DDR3 1333 RAM
OCZ Stealthstream 600W PSU with 4x 18A 12V (72A combined)
Samsung Spinpoint 1TB SATA HD
2x Sony/OptiArc optical drives (1 SATA, 1 IDE)

To clarify, when I said POST and boot up, I meant everything prior to the bootloader taking over. In the case of this particular system, multiple OSes are installed, so I have to select the Windows OS before it even starts to load itself. The errors are present way before this step ever occurs.
With respect to the drives, it is not always the same drive. Up until the other day, it was always an optical drive that disappeared. The missing drive was not detected by (and would not show up in) the BIOS even after rebooting and going into the BIOS to check. The same occurred with the Samsung HD.
(I do know not installing Windows from scratch is less than ideal but I needed the system back up ASAP and still had some software that was not Win7 friendly at the time. Fortunately Acronis True Image handled most of the driver updates/replacements during the restore process and the few remaining I did from within Windows upon the first boot. I highly recommend their product if you ever need bare-metal restore across dissimilar hardware!)
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No way that is 72A combined.
Look at the label and see how many watts the 12V rail can do, then divide 12-rail-watts / 12v = combined amps.
Hmmm... I may have misunderstood the label. Here's what it says:
Voltage: +5V +12V1 +12V2 +12V3 +12V4 +3.3V -12V +5Vsb
Max Curr: 30.0A 18.0A 18.0A 18.0A 18.0A 36.0A 0.5A 3.0A
It does not list max watts for just the 12V rail. Total output for all voltages not to exceed 580W. When I bought it, the rep said add the 12V outputs together, but if that's not right I definitely need to know!
EDIT: Well, curious about the max amps, I popped over to Newegg and pulled up the legacy product page for this PSU...<sigh> It does not have a very good track record for longevity and, apparently, the 12V rail distribution is practically useless: 2 rails power the 8-pin ATX/EPS connector, 1 rail powers the 2 4-pin PCI-E connectors, and the remaining rail goes everywhere else. I'm thinking it's a miracle my GTX560 Ti ever ran in this system at all.

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Has anyone gotten the extra SATA ports to work in windows XP? they don't seem to be active.

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Shutdown and remove all drives but the xp boot drive. Install XP.

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I would recommend upgrading to LabVIEW 7.0 for a couple of reasons. First, LabVIEW 6.1 introduced remote front panels which allows you to control a VI through a web browser. Setting up remote front panels is very simple and that alone is worth the upgrade. As far a using the parallel port you can use VISA to send/receive commands via the parellel port if you are using a motor controller with a parellel interface. If you are talking about using the port on a bit level to control the motor, LabVIEW 7.0 ships which an example of how to do basic digital input output with the parallel port.
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Oooops, never mind got it working .
With, of course, absolutely no help from MSI tech support . They suck out loud .

I called tech support because I was having the same problem and apparently the K7D Master-L motherboard doesn't have driver support yet. The tech said he'd call Taiwan (or wherever) about getting driver status and that I was to give him a call on Tuesday.
It's bizarre to me that a dually board like this doesn't have 2003 support, even though 2003 has been out for, what, a year now?
What driver did you use to get the hardware recognized? Can you post a link?
Agrikk

Internal SATA ports?

I have a 2007 Mac Pro running windows and I know apple did not initialize the two internal SATA ports for adding a Blu-Ray drive, but I am looking at the new Mac Pros and was curious if they turned these ports on in the new machines? It would be nice to not have to run my cable out the back of my computer to plug into an external card.
Any thoughts?
Thanks

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Mac Pros extra two internal sata ports broken since Leopard 10.5??

I have a Mac Pro and according to xlr8yourmac.com and the newertech website, there are four sata ports for your hard drives PLUS an additional two more sata ports directly on the motherboard. Through a complicated and difficult disassembly, it is possible to dissect your mac pro and install their cable which they sell for about $30, and get at the rear of your mac pro housing connectors for these two internal sata ports. In short, it's nothing more than an extension cable that fits into a neat housing at the back of the mac pro. You can then plug up to two esata drives into those jacks and they are basically hooked into the macpro motherboard. I ordered this cable and it worked splendidly since 10.4.8 and for 10.4.9 without any issue (that I could tell). I was even able to raid them together etc etc. (edit to be clear I mean I had two Lacie 500Gb drives with esata, firewire 800, 400 and USB 2 on them).
When I installed 10.5 it was all broken!! What a disaster. I can't use these drives on the firewire bus (which by the way they work fine on) because I am already tieing up that with other devices and drives. I need these extra two buses, plus they were **** fast before- I guess it's the same bus as the internal drives get.
I have contacted Lacie - no luck - and also newertech, and did so again today, but so far no luck, and apple, no luck and even submitted a feedback request back when we were on 10.5.1 (just released at that time), and no luck. I hoped 10.5.2 would restore this functionality.
I was told Apple do not normally go out of their way to kill unintended functionality but could this be the case on this occasion?

www.xlr8yourmac.com its over my head but...
A Copy of the April 23rd, 2007 news page post is below (in reply to eSATA Extender cables (w/PCI slot bracket) from Newer Tech for use with the 2 unused ports on the Mac Pro motherboard.)
" this may be of some interest for your readers.
From the Intel 631xESB/632xESB I/O Controller Hub data sheet:
"Hot-Plug Operation
Dynamic Hot-Plug (for example, surprise removal) is not supported by the SATA host controller. However, using the PCS register configuration bits and power management flows, a device can be powered down by software, and the port can then be powered off, allowing removal and insertion of a new device. "
(I asked if he knew of any way to do that in OS X.)
the SATA controller does support AHCI mode, which enables hot plugging (same as with the raid southbridges ICH6R - ICH8R which support hot plugging with raid drivers from Intel without Intel assuring this).
But it does not support AHCI if the PATA port is used as in the Mac Pro. And without AHCI there is no way to do hot plugging.
Using a SATA DVD drive may not mean AHCI is used automatically. The controller has to be switched from IDE to AHCI mode. Maybe the Mac Pro does it on startup or some EFI specialist can finds out how to do that.
BTW Tiger can handle an ICH8R in AHCI mode on all SATA ports without a problem.
Kind regards,
Martin S. "
Info/Tips on using Spare SATA Ports with Windows: (from Jan 15th, 2008 news page) This may have come up in the past and I'd forgotten it (don't own a Mac Pro yet) but in reply to a post yesterday (1/15/2008) on the Pioneer SATA Blu-Ray reader/Superdrive combo drive, a reader mentioned the spare SATA ports are not usable in Windows XP at least with the standard drivers with Bootcamp. (Most readers have used the ports in OS X although I've not searched drive db reports for anyone that mentioned using Bootcamp/Windows also. BTW - The spare ports are bootable for OS X use, as noted in this article - although drives are not shown/usable when booted from Windows with standard drivers.)
(Update) Here's a reader mail w/tips on using the spare ports with Windows via a replacement chipset driver install and grub bootloader edit:
" after finding this thread in the onmac forums I finally was able to get my pioneer sata drive to work under bootcamp. Basically you have to do the following:
- Install Win XP and ubuntu linux with a pata dvd drive in XP, change the ide 2680 driver to the intel ahci driver found here (downloadcenter.intel.com) S5000 Based Server AHCI SATA Storage Driver for Windows.
- Boot into ubuntu and change the stage1 file of the grub bootloader to this:
http://www.olofsson.info/grub/stage1
This keeps the mac pro in ahci mode when booting a foreign OS
Now you can boot windows using the linux partition, this will start grub and keep the mac pro in the correct mode
I also installed Refit to make things a little easier but as far as i know using Alt key when booting should work too.
if anyone tries this and has any questions feel free to ask
-Forrest"

980a only showing 4 SATA ports!

The Bios only shows 4 SATA ports and only 4 will recognize anything.. Any ideas?
AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE 3.8GHZ
MSI NF980-G65 1.0 BIOS
Patriot DDR3 1600MHZ 4GB
EVGA GTX280 1GB
1 Western Digital 500GB, 2 Western Digital 1TB
Windows 7 64Bit
Ultra X3 1000W

Are you saying it's OK now or do you get the blue screen you described earlier?
Have you tried this?:
- Set BIOS back to IDE
- Start Windows
- Run Registry Editor
- Go to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci
- Change the "Start" value to 0 not sure about this but is probably set at 3
- Reboot and go to BIOS immediately
- Set BIOS to AHCI
Another one says this:
1. In find type "Regedit"
2. Open Regedit
3. Open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
4. Open SYSTEM
5. Open CurrentControlSet
6. Open services
7. Open msahci
8. In right hand side...left click on "start" and go to Modify
9. In the value Data field enter "0" and click "ok" and exit "Regedit"
10. Reboot Rig and enter BIOS (hold "Delete" key while Booting
11. Go into "Integrated Peripherals"
12. Open OnChip PATA/SATA Devices
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Need help with e-sata card and Primera disc publisher.

Hello, I recently purchased a Primera Disc Publisher, you can read about it here:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/465853-REG/Primera_63124_Bravo_SE_Blu_Disc .html
About 20% of the time, it works perfectly.
The rest, it doesn't work at all. I've been on and off the phone with Primera support, and they've admitted something shocking to me: the e-sata card they bundle with their product, is known to not work well with Macs. I asked them to recommend one for me that will work well with Macs, and they said they don't really know Macs, that I should find someone who does and get the recommendation from them.
In their defense, once I buy the new card, they're going to send me enough free ink cartridges to match the purchase. I admit, that's pretty cool of them.
But the e-sata card. Jeez. This is the one I'm looking at:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/433920-REG/Sonnet_TSATAII_E4P_Tempo_SATA_E 4P_SATA.html
Do any of you have experience using this card on a Mac? I'm getting pretty specific here, but do any of you have experience using this card on a Mac Pro with a Primera product? I have a bunch of projects coming up where I will need to use the disc printer to finish the work, so I've got to find a suitable card! Any help is greatly appreciated!

Sonnet and the E4P is popular, good company, and of course great for 4 SATA ports and PM support.
If you are not using SATA drives though, there are other options. check OWC for SATA PCIe and support.
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What do the Ram timings mean and does it matter which SATA port?

hi
is it a thread or could you guys add 1. i just bought 2x p55a- gd65 mobos. im sorry i do not build pc's all the time. i buy every few years and try to get up to date tech..
my problem is. each new tech i go up say kn8 to an9 ddr to ddr2 etc. some of the wording in memory set up changes and or more setting options. im not sure what the 4 main settings are. say i have memory that is 8-8-8-24 and want to make it 9-9-9-24. im not sure exactly which settings to change.. i think 1 settings has cl in the wording- i know what cl is- im not sure of the others.. this lil bit of info added to the manual would help us simple folks a lot..
well maybe you guys could start another thread- maybe you can sticky them. or put all of this in a general new p55 build thread.. but.
i noticed in the manual for my 2 new p55a- gd65 and or on the mobo. the satas are stacked 2 in a stack which one is sata 1 and sata 2. its not clear in the manual. i want to guess sata 1 is the 1 closest to the mobo or pcb and 2 is on top.. i have not checked yet. but what about the io plate and say usb. i guess some of them are stacked and maybe a few of them. which is stack 1 or usb 1 and 2 etc. again id guess the 1 closest to the mobo is 1. but what about if it is a few different stacks. where would the count start from top of mobo or the bottom up.. lil things like this can snag us simple folks. but in less than 1/3 of a page in the manual for these issues could be explained with ease or by adding a few numbers to the photos etc. if i remember right my abit mobos always added the lil numbers what ever to the system photos or drawings. it helped to set up the system faster and helped even more us that do not build systems often.. we should not have to guess- a few simple lil numbers on the drawings would be sweet.
thank you if you guys could start a thread and answer these few things- i know it would help me a lot. i will have the rest of my 2 system builds by the end of the week.. i was just reading on the msi flash drive thingy- its seems cool. as long as my drives like it etc- i have 1x 512mb 1x 1g and 1x 2g drives. im not sure how much space it needs exactly. im not sure it said anything about that. it just said- make sure you have extra space- but not how much? i want to guess my 1 gig drive will be enough. i have to make sure i know what letter it will be called etc.. but i think i will be ok.. i more want to use memtest- i hope my bios will be up to date- or good enough to get it running- but i will check and see what is out and download it maybe burn it to disc etc.. i have a few days to get all of this together..
* mods feel free to move this post if need be. i started this post here because its memory related or part of it anyway.. im not sure it is threads for these lil things- maybe sticky s in another area. im not trying to take over the thread or anything. im new here..
thanks in advance.. see ya..

The timing explanations are all over the net. For instance, at techpowerup, there is page explaining all the timings.
http://www.techpowerup.com/printarticle.php?id=131
An excerpt from the webpage.
Quote from: http://www.techpowerup.com/printarticle.php?id=131
Introduction
Have you ever wondered what those numbers “2.5-3-3-8” or “2-2-2-5” and so on mean? Or have you seen words like “CAS” and “tRCD”? These are the timings for the memory, or the speed at which it processes certain commands. This whole settings area can be quite confusing and you have to have a certain knowledge of it, if you plan on overclocking. But some of you may just be plain curious as to what they are.
Rated Memory Timings.
* CAS (tCL) Timing: CAS stands for Column Address Strobe or Column Address Select. It controls the amount of time in cycles between sending a reading command and the time to act on it. From the beginning of the CAS to the end of the CAS is the latency. The lower the time of these in cycles, the higher the memory performance.
e.g.: 2.5-3-3-8 The bold “2.5” is the CAS timing.
* tRCD Timing: RAS to CAS Delay (Row Address Strobe/Select to Column Address Strobe/Select). Is the amount of time in cycles for issuing an active command and the read/write commands.
e.g.: 2.5-3-3-8 The bold “3” is the tRCD timing.
* tRP Timing: Row Precharge Time. This is the minimum time between active commands and the read/writes of the next bank on the memory module.
e.g.: 2.5-3-3-8 The bold “3” is the tRP timing.
* tRAS Timing: Min RAS Active Time. The amount of time between a row being activated by precharge and deactivated. A row cannot be deactivated until tRAS has completed. The lower this is, the faster the performance, but if it is set too low, it can cause data corruption by deactivating the row too soon.
tRAS = tCL + tRCD + tRP (+/- 1) so that it gives everything enought time before closing the bank.
e.g.: 2.5-3-3-8 The bold “8” is the tRAS timing.
(The 2.5-3-3-8 figure is just an example for memory timings.)
These are the four timings that you would see when memory is being rated. It is in the order of CAS-tRCD-tRP-tRAS. The lower these timings, the higher the performance of the memory. Some motherboard manufactors (DFI for example) list the timings in their bios CAS-tRCD-tRAS-tRP.
Certain memories can take tighter (lower) timings at higher speeds. These are the more expensive memory modules out of the bunch. There are also other timings to consider in your BIOS. Not all boards will have options like these.
http://www.techpowerup.com
It doesn't matter which sata port on the same controller you insert a connector. This is not like the PATA controller where master and slave can be determined by the end or middle connector.

When I unplug Apple headphones from my MacBook Pro sond from internal speakers not work, and system soud preferences displayed: Output: optical digital out port only

When I unplug Apple headphones from my MacBook Pro sond from internal speakers not work, and system soud preferences displayed: Output: optical digital out port only

If you see a red light in the audio output port, then the internal switch is stuck. Insert the earphone plug a few times and see if you can trip the switch. If that fails, insert a cocktail stirrer and the like and jiggle it around inside. If that fails, take it to an Apple store and have the technicians at the genius bar do it for you.
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Internal SATA port

I have installed a Pioneer Blu-ray drive in the second optical drive slot and made the data connection directly to the unused SATA port on the motherboard. All Blu-ray things work perfectly, but now I am unable to boot from my system disk in my superdrive. Also just experienced a problem with a Photoshop update DMG file that won't install. Error message simply says update failed.
Has anyone experienced a similar problem?
Thanks in advance!

Look for cuts or nicks in the optical drive flat cable. It is easy for it to get pinched when the drive carrier is pushed back in place. Make sure the DVD drive is using the end connector of the flat cable.

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My audio port and internal speakers are not working when playing and/or streaming audio. I'm assuming it's a software issue considering it has happened straight after downloading OS X.
Any, simplified and jargon-free advice, would be very appreciated. Need music for my hours of coursework/essay writing ahead of me.
Many thanks for any help
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What works or does not work under what conditions? Internal speakers, earphones?
Have you opened System Preferences>Sound and checked the settings?
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