Well, after some more investigating, I find that the cause of this
"problem" is, in fact, Disk Utility itself!
To determine this, I booted into Leopard and inserted the Panther
install CD - searched the CD and found its version of DU. Ran it
(again, under Leopard) - it saw the DVD drive & CD perfectly. Quit
Panther's DU and started Leopard's DU - it did not see the DVD drive.
I'd say that this is conclusive.
I used the Show Package Contents feature to look into all the files
which make up DU, and hopefully find some configuration that I could
change. I found nothing that appeared to be relevant. So it appears
that I'm at a dead end here. It doesn't appear that I'll be able to
change it to see DVD-ROM drives.
Unless someone has another idea, it looks like I'm at the end of the
road on this issue.
Bob
On Nov 2, 2012, at 4:25 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Nov 2, 2012, at 12:59 PM, MacBob61 <macbo...@cox.net> wrote:
I also want to tell you the results of my last check. As I said, I
re-installed the original CD-RW drive. When I booted up and went
into Disk Utility, the drive showed up perfectly! I then removed it
and put my DVD-ROM back in. Powered up and into Disk Utility - no
go! The DVD-ROM is not seen.
After observing how Disk Utility displayed the CD-RW info, I had a
theory as to why it might not be working. I wonder if Leopard's
Disk Utility (remember, the drive does show up in Panther's D.U.)
doesn't display the drive because it's not a burner? I considered
the fact that all of the iMac G4's optical drives are burners!
Maybe it's ignoring the lowly DVD-ROM because as a read-only
device, it doesn't "belong" in that Mac. Possible?
As verification, I ask you and all the members, is anyone running
Leopard who has a DVD-ROM drive that is seen in Disk Utility?
That's a thought, although it should show up if there's a disk in
the drive, regardless.
Sadly we just surplussed the last of our G4 macs from here or I
could test the theory, and the only Mac I have running 10.5 is my
old TiBook which has a burner in it.
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
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