My Imac does not recognize a TEAC CDW54E with Mac OS 10.2.8

Jose Blanco...

In Mac OS 9 does it display a USB Bridge manufacturer from within Apple System Profiler? Make shure to expand the little triangles and post back your information.

Its a longshot should it come back as InSystem Design or Cypress, I have those drivers in a very safe place.

...Ron

I have the same drive (a PC friend gave it to me when they upgraded to an internal drive). Teac does NOT support the Mac. The only way I could get the CDW54E to work was in OS 9 and only with an older version of Toast. I gave up and brought the drive to work where I have to use a PC. It works fine with XP Pro. My suggestion (if it fits into your budget) is buy a $99.00 DVD/CDRW burner and be done with it (I suggest one like this model from OWC: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/optical-drives/). When you get the chance to buy a newer Mac, a drive like this will make the move with you easily. Trying to get this burner to work in OS X will continue to be a lesson in frustration. Good luck. I hope you find a way to prove me wrong. The cheapest alternative is forget about burning disks in OS X and keep on burning them in OS 9.

If you navigate on your hard drive to (are you ready?):

"/System/Library/Frameworks/DiscRecording.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/DiscRe cordingEngine.framework/Versions/A/Resources/DeviceSupport.drprofile"

you will find the file Device Support. Open it in TextEdit. Use Find to search for TEAC. You will find the supported TEAC drives listed, if you can wade through the text.