You can overcome this problem by sharing your Windows optical drive. Your Mac Mini or MacBook Air do not have an optical drive. How to share a DVD or CD drive on a Windows Machineĭescription: This article will show you how to share your Windows optical drive so your MacBook Air or Mac Mini can use it. Help options - 5 groups of items - 17 total selections

None of my authorizations are on that drive.ĭoes this sound like an OS issue, a failing SSD, or, some kind of virus behavior, or.PC Parts options - 10 groups of items - 47 total selectionsĮlectronics options - 12 groups of items - 61 total selectionsĪccessories options - 10 groups of items - 50 total selections Unfortunately, it's not my old system drive, so, I can't just use that drive. When I boot from that drive, I have access to everything. One of the hardwired drives has an OS on High Sierra. I've tried these things in Recovery Mode (I'm not able to boot into Safe Mode). I've used the Terminal in recovery Mode to try to boot the CD drives (diskutil mount ). Things I've tried: I've reset the SMC, I've reset NVRAM, I've First Aided the main drive and tried to manipulate the CD drives with Disk Utility. Today, my MOTU 896s, connected by FireWire stopped showing up today. The three drives that are hardwired into the shell of the computer (not easily removable) sporadically show up. The four that are in the Bays of the computer are always showing, the four external drives are always showing. Other symptoms, some of the hard drives aren't always appearing. This happens even when I have had no other programs open and have restarted only with Disk Utility open. If I try to mount, or, eject them, I get a message that they cannot be ejected because they are in use by another program. In Disk Utility, they show up as if unmounted.

Symptoms: Within the last week, I no longer see prerecorded CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs that are inserted into the drives in Finder, or, iTunes, or, other programs. I have 7 internal drives, 4 external drives, an internal optical CD/DVD drive and an external Blu-ray drive. I've upgraded the graphics card for Mojave.

I have a Mid 2010 Mac Pro 2 x 3.46 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon. I believe that I've been on 10.14.6 for a while too, but, I don't remember that for a fact. I've been on Mojave for a while, so, it's not just due to my switch to Mojave.

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