El Capitan killed DVD drive

After updating to El Capitan on my mid 2010 iMac | 3.08 GHz Intel Core i3 | 16 GB memory 1067MHzDDR3, the computer:

has lost its built-in DVD drive.
does not recognize the drive. Finder cannot "see" it
Insert disc (which, yes, works find in other DVD drives) and it spins it around back and forth for awhile and then spits it out

This seems to be a fairly widespread problem.

iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010), iOS 9.0.2, just updated (darn it)

Posted on Oct 6, 2015 12:38 PM

171 replies

Jun 14, 2017 1:38 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

I don't think so.

DVD worked.

Installed el capitan.

DVD stopped working.

Jun 16, 2017 11:27 PM in response to Lee Dunkelberg

Since when are updates not supposed to be retroactively compatible? Or, if they are, shouldn't we be told? I agree. Apple should do a fix ASAP.

Jun 25, 2017 9:12 AM in response to Lee Dunkelberg

Dear Lee, My husband has solved it! There is a useful,external,disc drive called "Glow Geek" that is Mac Compatible!

Jun 25, 2017 10:26 PM in response to Luis Sequeira1

Yes. I installed el capitan and internal dvd drive stopped reading.

Seems others have had the same experience.

quid pro quo.

I'll be happy to provide an etrecheck report if you tell me what it is.

tx,

Dec 3, 2017 9:09 AM in response to Lee Dunkelberg

I’ve tried adding an external dvd drive to my el cap 10.11.6 Mac. The internal recognized the disc but the external doesn’t even reg

MzLortta

Level 1

30 points

Dec 3, 2017 11:57 AM in response to Lee Dunkelberg

For what it's worth, I could never get my external DVD drive to work on my mac mini when I had El Cap ... I now have Sierra 10.12.6 and the DVD drive works fine. Good luck!!

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El Capitan killed DVD drive