Attention all Mac OS uber-geeks: I've got a problem that is buggin' the heck out of me.
The other day, I bought a LaCie Porsche CD-RW FireWire external optical drive. Came home and plugged it into my 17" PowerBook. iTunes saw the drive and within seconds, I was burning discs. The next day, I plug the PowerBook into it again but this time, nothing. No application sees that there is an optical drive on the other end of the FireWire cord.
So I plug the Porsche into my desktop Cube. Same problem. No application sees the drive.
But when I run System Profile on both machines and click on FireWire, System Profiler reports the existence of a "FireWire Device."
I have visited LaCie's site and have any and all of the latest drivers there. I am running the latest operating system software from Apple.
I installed the apps that you get when you buy a LaCie drive -- namely Roxio's Toast -- and have the same problem. The apps don't see the drive.
I have tried all sorts of combinations of starting up the machines with the Porsche on; starting up the Porsche when the machines are on. Nothing works.
I've found just one unhelpful article at Apple's online support.
Any ideas about what I'm doing wrong here?
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Help! My Macs cannot see my external CD-RW
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Re: Help! My Macs cannot see my external CD-RW
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Anonymous
on Thu 10 Jun 2004 12:38 PM EDT | Permanent Link
Make sure the power is on ^_^
been there done that..... don't put heavy items on top of external burners. A stack of 100 CD-Rs stopped mine.... Mick H Re: Help! My Macs cannot see my external CD-RW
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Anonymous
on Thu 10 Jun 2004 01:14 PM EDT | Permanent Link
I've run into some odd-ball behavior with my external firewire Pioneer burner. Sometimes it shows up and sometimes it does not. One trick I've used on, several occassions, is to unhook the burner while it is powered down. Power it up and then plug it in after it has come up (hot swappable = no risk). Another quirk I've seen is the chain seems to be sensitive about which port on the burner I'm plugged into. (I've not noted any preference of ports on the computer.)
L.A. Re: Help! My Macs cannot see my external CD-RW
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Anonymous
on Fri 11 Jun 2004 09:49 AM EDT | Permanent Link
it's broken, call LaCie.....
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