I found out that using dsmos was the problems for me with drives not looking like drive icons but folder icons so I switched to fakesmc.
Before I switched dsmos for fakesmc diskutil would kp 3/4 way on verify or repair permissions

Now all my drives look like drives & no panics

When u turn off auto mode in the bios it disables 2 of the SATA ports (Disabled IDE mode) this is not acceptable to me since I have 6 drives installed and making the sata run in ide mode turns off the drives above 4

I still have no sound or PS2 KB or Mouse yet.

Retail Snow Leopard installed but still testing.

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iDeneb v1.4 10.5.8 Vanilla
MB: Intel DG31PR (ICHx,USB,PS2 Fixed)
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 2.20GHz
Video: PNY-NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB (Install with onboard Video, Add EFI String to boot)
Ram: Corsair 2048MB PC6400 DDR2
Audio: Realtek ALC888(ALC88X Fixed)
Net: Working out of box
HDD: 3 SATA / 1 IDE (Win Xp, Win 7, OSX86)
CD/DVD: LG -R, -R DL, -RAM, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW

Snow Leopard install in progress.