asus blu-ray writer not recognized by iMac

I have this same problem now. Were you able to resolve it Stanyyc? If so, how?

FYI,

The supplied Roxio Toast 10 software does not create or burn BluRay discs.

You will need to upgrade Toast to the latest version that does support BluRay which Toast Titanium 111 or Toast 11 Pro.

http://www.roxio.com/

Also, there is no native support in Macs for watching BluRay DVD discs.

You will need an OS X BluRay player app to watch BluRay DVDs.

Oone such software is VLC Player which is free OR if VLC won't play BluRay content use this,

http://www.macblurayplayer.com/

Good Luck!

Same here, Toast Titanium 11 didn't 'see' the Asus drive for burning a data Blur-Ray. It had worked fine before but yesterday I couldn't get it to work. The only drive it would find is the internal broken drive.

I tried several combinations of connecting, booting and launching Toast but had to give up in the end. Watched a movie with an external Lacie DVD drive.

This morning I gave it another try and magically it's now working.

I am having the same problem myself. Regrettably there is no answer here. Having Toast Titanium of any version has absolutely nothing to do whether your MAC can recognize that you have a burner mounted to your computer. The fact is that most burners on these threads were once recognized and now they are not. Some people have theorized it's because of the operating system update.

I was trying to burn a Blu-Ray movie using Adobe Encore, but now it doesn't even see the Asus burner, like it used to. To take it a step further, Encore wasn't even seeing the built in super drive to burn DVD's. However I navigated through that problem.

I've had an external burner for years - one thing is that mine will not show up on the desktop; the only way it will be recognized is if I insert a DVD. It then shows as available in Toast or as a popup in Finder "you have inserted a CD, what would you like to do with it" or similar (show on desktop, etc).

It's the same with. It won't show up unless I have a disc inside the tray.

As far as I know, that has been the default behavior for years - I got the burner when I was running Leopard and it didn't show then either unless I inserted a CD or DVD,

A kind sir helped me with this problem and it was resolved. I'll copy and paste it below:

BDAqua

Hello,

Do other USB things work in that port?

reset FW bus, same goes for USB reset...

Reset the Firewire bus

If your Firewire or USB isn't recognizing any device. A solution which has worked for some whose hard drive became invisible in 10.4 was simply to follow these four steps to reset the Firewire/USB bus:

1. Shut the machine down.

2. UNPLUG the power lead to the computer and any firewire/USB drive or devices.

3. leave it for 10 minutes.

4. Connect back up and reboot.

http://www.macmaps.com/firewirebug2.html

Have you done a PRAM reset, CMD+Option+p+r...

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

In fact, do 3 in a row, takes a bit of time.

jimNASIUMgoTEAM

A kind sir helped me with this problem and it was resolved. I'll copy and paste it below:

BDAqua

Re: ASUS Blu Ray burner no longer recognized

Sep 1, 2013 2:16 PM (in response to jimNASIUMgoTEAM)

Hello,

Do other USB things work in that port?

reset FW bus, same goes for USB reset...

Reset the Firewire bus

If your Firewire or USB isn't recognizing any device. A solution which has worked for some whose hard drive became invisible in 10.4 was simply to follow these four steps to reset the Firewire/USB bus:

1. Shut the machine down.

2. UNPLUG the power lead to the computer and any firewire/USB drive or devices.

3. leave it for 10 minutes.

4. Connect back up and reboot.

http://www.macmaps.com/firewirebug2.html

Have you done a PRAM reset, CMD+Option+p+r...

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

In fact, do 3 in a row, takes a bit of time.

Thanks - although I do not have a problem.

This worked out perfect these steps by (jimNASIUMgoTeam) and now I see my Asus DVD/Blue ray again on my Mac Pro. I had my printer connected and when I reconnected back the Asus that's when it wasn't recognizing it.