Q: Superdrive not recognised in MP 5.1
Just recently my superdrive is intermittently failing to be recognised by my system, a MacPro 5.1 running 10.9.5. If I reboot it will be there as normal but after some time like the next morning it'll disappear (maybe after the mac sleeps, I'm not sure). If I check under disc burning in system report it says "No disc burning device was found. If the device is external, make sure it’s connected and turned on." as if it's been disconnected. I can manually open the drive by opening the MP, sliding out the drive caddy and pressing the button on the front so it has power just the system can't see it.
Do you think its my superdrive, a system software corruption or (I hope not) a motherboard problem?
Posted on Nov 3, 2014 12:46 AM
I zapped the PRAM and it seems to have solved the issue for the time being. Drive still recognised after a night's sleep. Its about the only time the four finger salute has actually done something useful.
Posted on Nov 4, 2014 3:40 AM