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External DVD drive not recognised
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<blockquote data-quote="IWT" data-source="post: 1832300" data-attributes="member: 83420"><p>It may be faulty, but may I raise a few points which have nothing to do with that?</p><p></p><p>1. A CD/DVD Reader/Writer will not usually be "seen" by the Mac until a Disc is inserted - blank or playable. </p><p></p><p>2. It will then be visible on the Desktop (if Finder Preferences are set up to do so) and in Finder (again if you have preferences allowing it to be seen in Finder's Sidebar.) </p><p></p><p>3. Therefore, I suggest that you make sure that Finder > Preferences are set up to allow one or both means of seeing the Drive AND that you insert a Disc.</p><p></p><p>4. Here, I am being a little cheeky; but it happened to me, so it can happen to anyone. Are you sure it is both a CD and DVD Reader/Writer and not just a DVD Reader/Writer. I have the latter in front of me just now to remind me how simple mistakes are made. I couldn't get the blasted thing to work or be recognised because I was always inserting CDs. My bad!</p><p></p><p>BTW, my first three points almost certainly apply to Windows' PCs although I don't have one to verify that. So the Reader/Writer may be faulty..... or not.</p><p></p><p>Ian</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IWT, post: 1832300, member: 83420"] It may be faulty, but may I raise a few points which have nothing to do with that? 1. A CD/DVD Reader/Writer will not usually be "seen" by the Mac until a Disc is inserted - blank or playable. 2. It will then be visible on the Desktop (if Finder Preferences are set up to do so) and in Finder (again if you have preferences allowing it to be seen in Finder's Sidebar.) 3. Therefore, I suggest that you make sure that Finder > Preferences are set up to allow one or both means of seeing the Drive AND that you insert a Disc. 4. Here, I am being a little cheeky; but it happened to me, so it can happen to anyone. Are you sure it is both a CD and DVD Reader/Writer and not just a DVD Reader/Writer. I have the latter in front of me just now to remind me how simple mistakes are made. I couldn't get the blasted thing to work or be recognised because I was always inserting CDs. My bad! BTW, my first three points almost certainly apply to Windows' PCs although I don't have one to verify that. So the Reader/Writer may be faulty..... or not. Ian [/QUOTE]
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