LG slim portable dvd writer

I purchased the LG Slim Portable GP60 today and discovered that it works fine with my iMac running 10.6.8 but when I plugged it into my MBP running 10.8.4 it gives me an initialization error "A valid DVD drive could not be found." [-70012]. Oddly, I put a disk in the drive and it shows up on the desktop but will not play. Have you heard of this issue and do you know of any solutions?

Thanks

It should be plug and play. I have a 3rd party external burner connected to my iMac. It burns data disks, with iDVD it can burn DVDs compatible with DVD players, and music CDs. I've never installed a driver for it.

ive got the same one...ive used it on my macbook air, macbook, and my mac mini, works fine

I found an article explaining how to change the DVDPlayback.framework file so now it uses the Apple DVD player with no problems.

Could you expand on your comment about the article you found? What article where? I've got an LG slim portable GP50 and have nothing but problems playing dvds on my mac air. Occasionally a movie will play but more often than not, it won't work.

The LG instructions suggest using both usb ports but my mac air gives me one on the right and one on the left and the LG cable isn't long enough to reach both.

BLOODY,

I'm not sure what your issue is but here is the info I used to get my GP50 to work properly. I modified the DVDPlayback.framework file. You might try another media player first before modifying the file.

Good luck

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20070591-263.html

I had exact same issue, and not just with external DVD player, also with hard drives I was using to try and transfer backups of previous data...
Finally out of frustration I tried a different plug which has a double usb (plugged both into imac) and then the normal plug that goes into the LG portable DVD writer and VOILA - worked like a charm :-) ... same was true of my Transcend hard drive!!!
Hope this helps!

Soooo... I can get it to play but how do you write a disk if you don't have software loaded. Playing is not a problem but I can't figure out how to write files to a disk.

Disclaimer: I have owned a Mac for 6 days.

brookentodd, you simply need to right click the files/ folders you want to burn and drop down the menu and click "burn to disk"...

Just plug it in. I have the same drive, Best Buy had a sale.

It should work out of the box, if not, return it. I burned a bootable Mavericks DVD without a glitch.

I to was having this same issue. After using my drive to burn a dvd only once, it quit working as if my MacBook Pro would not detect it no matter what I tried. So, after reading this thread I switched out the usb cable that came with my drive for another one that I had lying around and now my drive works perfectly every time. I am wondering if LG might have had a bad batch of usb cables that all ended up in these types of drives.

Thanks for the reply. The cord that came with mine was faulty. Grabbed another and it worked perfectly. Strange because the cord will work with importing images from my camera.

I walked into the same problem. I have a LG Slim Portable DVD writer GP30NW20. I used a USB-cable to plug in. Didn't work. Then used the USB cable (USB 2.0) that had been supplied with the device. It's a somewhat thicker cable with an extra USB connector. Now it worked.

I had success by plugging it into a powered usb hub!

This worked for me too! Just plugged it into the other USB plug on my iMac.