![]() ![]() PS: One can skip step #2 D above, just reinserting still usually fixes the problem. If your Mac has a built-in optical drive, or if you connect an external DVD drive (for example, an Apple USB SuperDrive), you can burn files to CDs and DVDs to share your. I doubt the USB ports on the Mac are defective, but one could just check each one in turn with a flash drive, make sure the flash drive shows up on the desktop, eject it and go to the next USB port and test.īTW: I'm on Mojave with a 2012 Mac Mini and I don't get the little "kadoobry", the eject button icon in the menu bar - wonder why - probably because the 2012 Mini didn't come with an internal CD/DVD drive. So the drive is getting power from the Mac via the USB port but it doesn't recognize it for whatever reason In this case, the drive does spin up but the Mac doesn't recognize it. With a CD/DVD drive one has to have a disk in the drive and the drive has to spin up before one knows if the Mac recognized it or not. With a USB flash drive one sees right away if the Mac recognized the drive or not The flash drive will usually show up then. When I insert a USB flash drive, the drive occasionally doesn't show up on the desktop. I find that the USB ports on the various Macs I had are a bit "flaky" (for want of a better word.) ![]() The other is to reinsert the USB cable at the iMac end. IMac has already been rebooted - this is one thing I would have tried. ![]() The drive used to work with the iMac but then suddenly stopped working.Īnd the drive has shown not to be defective.
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