Blu-Ray Drive using extra SATA port on Mac Pro not recognized in Windows!!

[nanofrog]

If you buy a sata optical drive and convert the connector to PATA, will you lose native sata speed?? I am now seeing that it is not worth it to buy sata optical drives for 2006-2008 mac pros because Apple ****ed up the firmware!!!!!!!!!! DAMN APPLE!

YES, I AM EXTREMELY ANGRY ABOUT THIS!!!!!!!!

gugucom's suggested an idea (here, start at post 34), as it seems a couple of members may have done it.

Go SATA only. Pull the IDE drives, and use a SATA optical on one of the ports, and a SATA HDD on the other, if you wish to do that. As I know you want optical, get the SATA optcal drive, and pull the IDE cable from the IDE optical drive, and see if that works.

That might be just the way to get around the IDE-SATA interaction on the optical drive port issue in the firmware.

 

[pastrychef]

If you buy a sata optical drive and convert the connector to PATA, will you lose native sata speed?? I am now seeing that it is not worth it to buy sata optical drives for 2006-2008 mac pros because Apple ****ed up the firmware!!!!!!!!!! DAMN APPLE!

YES, I AM EXTREMELY ANGRY ABOUT THIS!!!!!!!!

What are you talking about??? Apple never intended for anyone to use the extra SATA ports on the 2006-08 Mac Pros. How did they **** up the firmware???

 

[gugucom]

We know from multiple users that the 2008 MP3,1 can boot from SATA optical drives just as the 2009 model.

We have also reports that without IDE drives installed the AHCI mode works on the MP3,1.

So instead of fitting SATA->IDE dapters to the SATA ODDs it would be better to run the SATA drive directly after you have done the AHCI patch on a HDD in a HDD port.