Reply interspersed in quote below, point-by-point...
On Oct 31, 2012, at 12:42 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Oct 31, 2012, at 5:08 AM, MacBob61 <[email protected]> wrote:
While looking further into this, i did discover something
interesting. If I boot up the Panther install CD and run its Disk
Utility, it sees the DVD drive as well as the media in it perfectly
fine!
In my mind, this has to be a Leopard issue. My hope is that one of
you who are truly expert in OS X might point me to some
configuration file that I could modify in order to fix this. I
wouldn't know where to begin to look.
This is remarkably peculiar, because Leopard was the OS version that
completely did away with all the nonsense about 'supported' and
'unsupported' drives, and OS X went to an industry standard.
I'll take your word for that, since you obviously know much more about
it than I do - but it sure isn't acting like it.
What happens if you boot from your 10.5 installer disk?
Same exact thing. DVD-ROM drive is not recognized by Disk Utility.
Works fine otherwise.
First thing to do is determine if it's a problem with the system or
your user account. Create a new admin user, log off and log in as
the new user. See if it works as expected. If not it's a system
issue, if it does, it's something in your user settings somewhere.
No change. By your criteria, it would appear to be a system issue.
If it's a system issue:
If you have Applejack <http://applejack.sourceforge.net/> installed,
which I HIGHLY recommend, I'd run that first, see if it fixes things.
Downloaded AppleJack and ran it. Performed all repair procedures, No
change.
Next I'd apply the latest 10.5 combo update.
This was done already. I'm at the end of the line - 10.5.8
If THAT didn't work, I'd try re-installing the OS, but only as a
last resort, you shouldn't need to do this sort of thing.
Even though I didn't expect this to work, given the fact that it
doesn't work even booted from the install disk, I did it anyway. No
change.
I've got some RAM on order to max this thing out at 1 GB. When it
comes in, I think that while I'm installing that, I will re-install my
original CD-RW drive, and see if that is recognized properly in Disk
Utility. If it is, then I would say that it would point to some kind
of compatibility problem. If it isn't recognized, then I'm lost as to
a cause.
I'll post when I know anything further. Thanks again...
Bob
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