cmdshft Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Ok, I have a DVD burner similar to this model: Click Me It's older, doesn't burn DVD's at 18x, but it dual layered, and everything. Problem is, my main DVD-ROM drive is detected and working, but not my second DVD drive. How can I get it to work? I have it plugged in so it *should* be detected. I'm wondering if it had anything to do with me installing via VMware, where I only gave it one DVD-ROM drive to use...? Any idea's on how to correct this? I have everything working, minus this, my logitech camera, and my dual screen setup (nVidia). I'd like to at least have this working, though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38153-dvd-burner-not-being-detected/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmdshft Posted January 9, 2007 Author Share Posted January 9, 2007 /bump Why does it seem that my post's are never responded to? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38153-dvd-burner-not-being-detected/#findComment-272425 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prawker Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Because you have no patience Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38153-dvd-burner-not-being-detected/#findComment-272436 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmdshft Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 Yeah true, Im pretty excited about this Hackintosh of mine, it's working great. I found drivers for my Logitech camera even! The only things that dont work are my DVD burner and my dual screen setup, and I cant seem to figure out why the above scenario is happening. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38153-dvd-burner-not-being-detected/#findComment-272443 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatS Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 I'm having a problem like this as well... except my burner is my primary drive, and the regular dvd rom is the slave... if there is a fix (i haven't really looked yet, sorry) then that would be great to know. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38153-dvd-burner-not-being-detected/#findComment-272628 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmdshft Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 My ROM drive is Master, and my Burner is slave. If I switch the drives and the jumpers so that the opposite is true, would I regain my burning capabilities? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38153-dvd-burner-not-being-detected/#findComment-272696 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 You can only try Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38153-dvd-burner-not-being-detected/#findComment-272700 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmdshft Posted January 11, 2007 Author Share Posted January 11, 2007 I reversed the drive order so that the burner is Master and the regular reader is Slave. The system now properly detects both drives. Does OS X require some specific order of the drives if one is a reader and the other is a writer? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38153-dvd-burner-not-being-detected/#findComment-273432 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitr- Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 (edited) Does OS X require some specific order of the drives if one is a reader and the other is a writer? Not really... but since real Mac:s only have one optical device per default it's hard to tell if that is the case Edited January 13, 2007 by Pitr- Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38153-dvd-burner-not-being-detected/#findComment-274750 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmdshft Posted January 13, 2007 Author Share Posted January 13, 2007 Well, I have both drives working. Holding the F12 key only opens one, but when I manually open and load a disc in the other, it does show up. It also shows in my system profiler. So not sure. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/38153-dvd-burner-not-being-detected/#findComment-274825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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