liebowa Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 MY PC has two optical drives - a DVD Reader, and a DVD writer. OS X is only recognizing the first drive. Is this a drivers issue, or is this just a limitation of the OS? Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12731-can-os-x-recognize-two-dvd-drives/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
dualBooter Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 How do you have your drives attached? What type of drives are each, including hard drive(s), and in what order are all drives attached? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12731-can-os-x-recognize-two-dvd-drives/#findComment-80600 Share on other sites More sharing options...
telmac5 Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 What is your hard drive? IDE or SATA. If it's SATA, the the IDE channel should recognize both DVD drives if one is set to master, the other to slave. If the HD is also IDE, then it may not see all three. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12731-can-os-x-recognize-two-dvd-drives/#findComment-80612 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Padrino Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 i've had both my ide dvd drives in and it worked and read both of them including my hdd drives Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12731-can-os-x-recognize-two-dvd-drives/#findComment-80626 Share on other sites More sharing options...
liebowa Posted March 22, 2006 Author Share Posted March 22, 2006 Thanks for the replies, everyone. I have a DELL 8400. It has a single SATA hard drive. It has two DVD drives. I just checked, and they were setup as Cable Select. I just changed them to Master and Slave on the same channel. I booted XP first, and the drives are still recognized. However, OS X still does not see the second (burner) drive. I can't eject the second drive's tray manually, and System Profiler still show's only the first drive. So, I enabled JUST the second drive (the burner) all by itself (removed the first from the chain, and made this one the Master), and OS X recognizes it correctly, so I know that the drive is OK, and that OS X understands what it is. Any more ideas? Thanks again... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12731-can-os-x-recognize-two-dvd-drives/#findComment-80861 Share on other sites More sharing options...
liebowa Posted June 5, 2006 Author Share Posted June 5, 2006 Just wanted to *bump* this post up, as I now have a real need to see both of my optical drives. Thanks.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12731-can-os-x-recognize-two-dvd-drives/#findComment-125177 Share on other sites More sharing options...
numberonekiwi Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 Have you tried using both devices on different IDE channels and setting both devices as master? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12731-can-os-x-recognize-two-dvd-drives/#findComment-127737 Share on other sites More sharing options...
subzero1266 Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 Thanks for the replies, everyone. I have a DELL 8400. It has a single SATA hard drive. It has two DVD drives. I just checked, and they were setup as Cable Select. I just changed them to Master and Slave on the same channel. I booted XP first, and the drives are still recognized. However, OS X still does not see the second (burner) drive. I can't eject the second drive's tray manually, and System Profiler still show's only the first drive. So, I enabled JUST the second drive (the burner) all by itself (removed the first from the chain, and made this one the Master), and OS X recognizes it correctly, so I know that the drive is OK, and that OS X understands what it is. Any more ideas? Thanks again... Sorry to bump, but I have exactly the same problem. When we boot into XP, it recognizes the drives but when we boot into OS X, it recognizes the master drive and the slave drive gets no power! Any solution ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12731-can-os-x-recognize-two-dvd-drives/#findComment-258006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacRetail Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 I have two IDE CD-drives (one DVD-R + one CD-RW) and a IDE Hard drive with OSX installed. First, OSX only recognised one CD-drive. So, I had to switch some cables, try if it worked, switch cables again... Eventually, it worked. OSX recorgnises both drives fine. Just try and play a bit! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12731-can-os-x-recognize-two-dvd-drives/#findComment-258073 Share on other sites More sharing options...
39thRonin Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 I have a Dell 8400 as well and would like to run with both optical drives connected. Thus far, I've not been able to make it work, and have simply un-plugged one of the drives. Anyone with a solution to this would be much appreciated! Thanks! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12731-can-os-x-recognize-two-dvd-drives/#findComment-258091 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-jordn- Posted December 19, 2006 Share Posted December 19, 2006 mine works perfectly, all ATA drives detected and working. DVD-ROM (master) and HDD (slave) on IDE1, and DVD-RW (master) on IDE2. wouldnt be suprised on buffer overflows tho. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/12731-can-os-x-recognize-two-dvd-drives/#findComment-258098 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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