External USB Optical Drive Not Recognized
What's the trick to get the OS to recognize your external USB optical drive, for playing CD or DVD disks?
The drive DOES show up in System Information:
DVD+-RW DS-8W1P :
Product ID: 0x1040
Vendor ID: 0x13fd (Initio Corporation)
Version: 1.06
Serial Number: 0000000000000000W
Speed: Up to 480 Mb/s
Manufacturer: Initio
Location ID: 0x00120000 / 25
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 2
Extra Operating Current (mA): 0
Media:
DVD+-RW DS-8W1P:
Capacity: 4.56 GB (4,560,750,592 bytes)
Removable Media: Yes
BSD Name: disk3
Logical Unit: 0
Partition Map Type: Unknown
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
USB Interface: 0
I can get DVD Player (app) to run, but it will not play a disk inserted. I've tried different DVD and CD disks, to no avail.
Any suggestions? Are we all done with optical disks on Mac OS X now?
Mac Pro, macOS 12.3