Mac Pro w Boot Camp - SATA, AHCI, EFI, BIOS - what can we do? (Cross Post)

so why not just stay here where there is allready info going on ?

such as this thread
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=596874&tstart=45

So Basically, before Windows XP can run smooth and quick with the new Mac Pro Apple is going to have get it together and make Boot Camp 1.2 with all the drivers.

Has anyone here successfully installed Windows Xp on the Mac Pro with little to no problems?
I sure am disappointed with this whole Boot Camp thing and hope the full version on the new Leopard OS works better.

I have a Macbook Pro running Boot Camp. Under device manager, the Primary IDE/ATA entry shows "Ultra DMA" rather than PIO. Why should the Mac Pro be different in this regard. It would seem that Apple should be able to "solve" the SATA issue. Any thoughts???

I think most people would like to discuss it, but here, not on another forum 😉

I've been waiting to buy to understand MacIntel and EFI more from "under the hood" side.



G4 MDD WD 320 OEM 9600 1.75GB SoftAID 3 Mac OS X (10.4.7) Mac Pro "rev 2" (hopefully)

I agree with all the posts. I did the whole thing again to 1.1 and find this system base device and the sata drive speed UDMA issue to be serious for cross platform. What I would like to know is what is the performance with the sata on the Mac OS side. I did a encode of video and it
didn't seem to be much faster than my G5 Dual 2.0 processor machine. I would like to hear from others on their video encoding to see if this sata issue goes throughout the whole machine. I'm dissappointed with the winxp thing. 1.1 is better and did alot better install, but I do realize that it is beta. Non the less, the sata issue is huge. What makes it worse is that Intel won't even give a little bit of support, basically they said to me that it was all Mac problems. I hope there are many changes, in the mean time the cross platform is not working for me. I did get autocad to run reasonable, but nothing like it should with the power under the hood.

Mike in WA

mac pro Windows XP Pro

At present my Mac Pro is stuck in an X1900 wait state. If Boot Camp is not happier with the SATA drives by the time it shows up (Mid September?), I am going to try to use a spare ATA133 drive as the XP drive (if that can be made to work with Boot Camp). My system only has one super drive, so I can use the other ATA connector for that hard disk.

Anyone else consider trying this one out?

Sigalarm

Is there any way to contact Apple about these issues so we can see some improvements?
I know you can e-mail your feedback to Apple but I sometimes wonder if they even read the messages.

I've emailed my feedback, haven't gotten a response. I don't know if they read it either.

Another person somewhere said they called Intel and Intel said they couldn't help and that it was Apple's problem. Apple considers this software beta and as far as I know, offers no phone support.

Feedback

Please provide bootcamp@apple.com
feedback to improve future versions of the software.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/