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Current version by Glen Meiring, Feb 20 2011

Title:

Optical drive not recognized in 10.6 but works when booted in 10.5

Text:

I have a Macbook A1181 with Snow Leopoard installed. The optical drive is not recognized in the OS, but I can boot from it. In fact, I installed another hard drive, installed a new OS (10.5) and the drive is recognized. I have also installed another optical drive with the same results.

I ran the Software Update in 10.6, but no change.

It looks like there is a software problem in the OS. How can I fix the software to recognize the optical drive?

Thanks.

Device:

Tags:

optical cd dvd superdrive

Status:

open

Original post by Glen Meiring, Feb 19 2011

Title:

Optical drive not recognized in 10.6 but works when booted in 10.5

Text:

I have a Macbook A1181 with Snow Leopoard installed. The optical drive is not recognized in the OS, but I can boot from it. In fact, I installed another hard drive, installed a new OS (10.5) and the drive is recognized. I have also installed another optical drive with the same results.

I ran the Software Update in 10.6, but no change.

It looks like there is a software problem in the OS. How can I fix the software to recognize the optical drive?

Thanks.

Device:

Macbook A1181 Early 2009

Tags:

optical cd dvd superdrive

Status:

open