Pioneer BDR-XS06 external player won't play blu ray discs

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Pioneer BDR-XS06 external player won't play blu ray discs

Been using a Pioneer BDR-XS06 blu ray/dvd burner/player for about a year to rip purchased blu ray movies to my 2016 iMac HD. Started having issues with ripping the movies (use Make MKV ripping software) so I assumed it was the drive itself or Make MKV had a problem. No.

Calls to Pioneer and Make MKV both resulted in them pointing me back to Apple.

Can anyone confirm for me if the latest OS X updates to either Sierra or High Sierra (I am running HS) could cause the drive issues that I now have? Pioneer doesn't think it is their hardware (the movie will mount to the desktop), also reads DVDs no problem. Make MKV thinks it is the Apple driver.

Thanks.

iMac with Retina 5K display, macOS High Sierra (10.13.1)

Posted on Nov 7, 2017 8:53 AM

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sakuragakuinふけい

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Nov 21, 2017 11:22 AM in response to CVGolfer

Hello ... If you haven't gotten around this problem yet, then listen to my story .... I have the 4K iMac. When I upgraded to OSX 10.13.1, makeMKV was unable to see my Pioneer BDR SX 06. My brother has an iMac several years older. When he clean installed 10.13.1 a week ago, he lost his track pad. Both are eventually USB interfaces. He had recovered by shutting down and unplugging, after trying many other things, so he recommended that I try that, and it worked. Before I unplugged, I tried another thing that points to some USB "state memory" situation - I had been successfully using that external BD drive with a 1 foot USB extension cable, so that I wouldn't have to get to the back of the iMac to plug it in. Before I did the "computer unplug reset", I plugged the BD drive directly into the computer without the additional 1 foot cable I had been using. In that configuration, I put in a CD, and it was read and mounted on the desktop. After the unplug reset, I could use the extra USB extension cable and makeMKV could see the drive, and I copied a short Blu-ray and then watched it with VLC. So ... its not an expensive experiment, and I hope you have success.

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Tesserax

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Nov 7, 2017 9:17 AM in response to CVGolfer

One possibility is that using Make MKV "accesses or bypasses" one of the core services on your Mac that is protected by System Integrity Protection (SIP). Although available earlier, SIP has been enabled by default, with macOS Sierra+

Ref:

About System Integrity Protection on your Mac - Apple Support
Resolve issues caused by changing the permissions of items in your home folder - Apple Support

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