My SATA Optical Drive Won't Work!

[CC_333]

Hi,

 

I actually need to burn some CDs for the first time in years, and I can't get my drive to work.

 

My machine's specs:

• Gigabyte Z270P-D3 with Intel Core i7-6700k
• 64 GB RAM
• macOS Mojave 10.14.6 running from a 1TB SSD installed in motherboard's NVMe slot, and macOS Monterey 12.7.5 on a 256 SSD installed on a PCI-to-NVMe adapter, all booting via Clover EFI revision 5149.

 

I tried replacing the drive with a known working unit, and still no go.

 

I must note also that the drive works fine on other operating systems (Windows, Linux, etc.) and the BIOS properly recognizes it, so this is not a hardware problem.  I suspect it may be due to the SMBIOS I'm using (iMac17,1), which belongs to a machine without any native support for a built-in optical drive.  I'm not sure why that would cause my problem, but I don't want to break things while trying other SMBIOSes.

 

My config.plist is attached, in the hopes that it may be of some use in solving this problem, which hopefully has a relatively simple fix.  Please let me know if anything else is needed.

 

Thank you!

 

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config.plist

Edited October 17, 2024 by CC_333

[Slice]

I think it depends on DVD manufacture. For my experience Pioneer is not working in macOS.

[fabiosun]

@CC_333

it is a problem with some OSX version and it was a problem with different recorder brand (Pioneer for sure because i had it in the past)

here to some infos:

https://macos86.it/topic/6145-build-ryzen-9-79950x-asus-rog-x670e-hero/?do=findComment&comment=138608

here my old ventura with Pioneer BD recorder: