I have an older iMac DV (in strawberry!) - I bought a CD burner, hooked it up with a fire wire cable and loaded up Roxio Toast Lite 5.2 and that was that - been a burnin' fool ever since.

Well, went to burn a CD the other day and for no reason - my computer does not "see" or recogonize the burner. I took the burner to a friend's and he connected it to his brand new Mac G5 and it worked fine there. He sent me home with a new fire wire cable and still - my burner is a NO SHOW on my computer.
I plugged the cable into both ports - NADA.

Can someone help? Wish I were more of a expert...

Have you tried recalibrating the motherboard?

2teh9s said:

I've had this Mac at home for years, but I have no idea how to do much of anything on it.

what os are you using? did you update it? that might make it incompatible with your burner. Does your system utilities thing show anything hooked up through firewire?

I thought this thread was about MAC makeup. I highly recommend the fluid line eyeliner. It's killer.

Natsume said:

You're an asswipe.

2teh9s said:

You're a turdburglar.

Natsume said:

Which detracts nothing from your being an asswipe.

2teh9s said:

I have a new avatar. Just wait till it's approved.

Natsume said:

Oh I'll be right here.

2teh9s said:

You really should get a life.

Natsume said:

http://www.prince.org/msg/100/164565

ufoclub said:

YES! I did update recently to 9.2 so I could use iTunes and my new iPod.

How can I remedy it?

Oh nevermind you meant mac computers...not mac cosmetics...


Sorry only used a mac for photoshop can't help ya...don't know enough to be a pro...but they basically work the same as a PC.

DiminutiveRocker said:

Oh please. Like you know what he said.

in all seriousness...it could be the firewire cable connection, it could be your ports, it could be the device you are trying to connect...it could be the drivers are not compatable with the operating system you are running. That is all I can think of off the top of my head.

2teh9s said:

I'm thinking it's probably a driver issue as Jess had suggested. Check the manufacturer's site to see if there are drivers specific to that operating system version.

look up your burner model number and os 9.2 compatability issues on google. Your only option might e to go back to the older os... I use tiger os 10.4 and that knocked out my printer which was only compatible up to 10.3...

DiminutiveRocker said:

TMPletz said:

ahhh ha I really knew what I was talking about...for once....

notoriousj said:

DiminutiveRocker said:

Toast Lite 5.2 ? And you upgraded your system to OS 9.2 ?

I'd upgrade your version of Toast... you know they are up to 7.0, Titanium. I would assume your 5.2 version is too old for system 9.2, before anything else.

Try upgrading Toast to whatever version is operable to your system software, that should fix it.

You can also check your system profiler with the burner connected, and see if your computer is recognizing that it is there. If your computer sees it, but Toast doesn't, it's because of your outdated version of Toast for sure!

This film clip show you what to do:
http://www.vega-nick.com/...ovieID=106


[Edited 10/20/05 23:23pm]

TMPletz said:

You all helped IMMENSELY! (except for 2th9s ! )

The Audience also sent me this link:

http://www.appletechs.com...00087.html


Apparently it is Toast - it doesn't recognize the burner after upgrading to the next system - I went from 9.0 to 9.2.1 so I cold get iTunes... why aren't these things ever easy... So I disabled the Firewire authoring extension... and voila - I can SEE the burner again!

Anyway THANK YOU - ALL OF YOU!

DiminutiveRocker said:

TheBatman said:

That was my next move

TheBatman said:

Good advice.

sag10 said:

Sag!