Aaron3 Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 I'm having problems with my blu ray drive not always recognizing. When I first reloaded with Mojave the other day, it showed up and worked properly. Now it doesn't show under 'Disc Burning', and shows up 'SATA/SATA Express' as Unknown. It did this same thing on a Z270 board I had it on, and I thought it might be the board, obviously not. I need this to work consistently.....what might be causing this? MSI Z170 Gaming Pro Carbon i7-6700k 16GB RAM MSI RX580 BLU-RAY Drive / LG-UH12NS40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
styrian Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 Hello! Here you go: https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/238159-apple-shipping-drive-dvd-fix-for-patasata/ Have fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron3 Posted November 23, 2018 Author Share Posted November 23, 2018 Thanks, I'll try that when I get home, but should it still work even though it's an 8 year old post? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marvelloard Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 Try disabling power saving for SATA devices (here called hard disks) in system preferences/energy saving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron3 Posted November 25, 2018 Author Share Posted November 25, 2018 styrian - Thanks for the link, but the download links are non existent anymore, and the process of finding anything with IORegistryExplorer is near impossible without explanation for ones who don't know anything about it like me. marvelloard - Thanks, I tried that hoping it'd be an easy fix, didn't work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LockDown Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 @Aaron3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron3 Posted November 25, 2018 Author Share Posted November 25, 2018 @ellaosx Thanks....that need to be installed in S/L/E or just L/E?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LockDown Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 Just now, Aaron3 said: @ellaosx Thanks....that need to be installed in S/L/E or just L/E?? clover's others folder or those 2 you mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron3 Posted November 25, 2018 Author Share Posted November 25, 2018 8 minutes ago, ellaosx said: clover's others folder or those 2 you mentioned. Thanks, installed in clover's 'other' folder and nothing changed. Maybe the screenshots of exactly what it's showing will help. Just remember, it worked last week on this exact setup, I changed nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LockDown Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 try rebuild cache Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron3 Posted November 25, 2018 Author Share Posted November 25, 2018 7 hours ago, ellaosx said: try rebuild cache Just tried that, no go either. Could it have anything to do with my system definition? It's iMac 14,2, which is an iMac that of course didn't come with an internal drive. If I should change it, what too...and the best way to change it, as every time I've changed it on Hacks in the past it crashed my system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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