Bruce,
It shows up fine in System Profiler:
LITE-ON DVD SOHD-16P9S:
Model: LITE-ON DVD SOHD-16P9S
Revision: FS0J
Serial Number:
Detachable Drive: No
Protocol: ATAPI
Unit Number: 1
Socket Type: Internal
Low Power Polling: No
Power Off: No
I also want to tell you the results of my last check. As I said, I re-
installed the original CD-RW drive. When I booted up and went into
Disk Utility, the drive showed up perfectly! I then removed it and put
my DVD-ROM back in. Powered up and into Disk Utility - no go! The DVD-
ROM is not seen.
After observing how Disk Utility displayed the CD-RW info, I had a
theory as to why it might not be working. I wonder if Leopard's Disk
Utility (remember, the drive does show up in Panther's D.U.) doesn't
display the drive because it's not a burner? I considered the fact
that all of the iMac G4's optical drives are burners! Maybe it's
ignoring the lowly DVD-ROM because as a read-only device, it doesn't
"belong" in that Mac. Possible?
As verification, I ask you and all the members, is anyone running
Leopard who has a DVD-ROM drive that is seen in Disk Utility?
Just a thought.
Bob
On Nov 1, 2012, at 1:11 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Oct 31, 2012, at 4:39 PM, MacBob61 <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
It is odd…since this is just a DVD-ROM it shouldn't have mattered
anyway.
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.
Go to System Information in 10.5 and see what it says for ATA in the
hardware section…this might give some clues as to what is going on.
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
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