I'm missing something here, looking at the atmel source current spec (~20mA) and the ds18s20p current (~1.5mA) draw during a conversion it should be able to power a dozen temperature sensors on a single pin without a problem. Very odd. It is almost as if the Atmel is using its internal pull up resistor to go high instead of the buffer, but I don't see a combination of settings that would cause that. I'll try a bunch of resistors and make a current/voltage plot when I get back to m analog bench and see what those ports are really doing.