Hi, I bought the LGs slim portable DVD writer know that I bought a product that is compatible with mac (says so on the box). I opend up the box and there was no installation disc for apple or installation instructions. Ive tried various ways to resolve this issue, ive tried patchburn but theres no version for my specific mac version. Does anybody know how to resolve this issue for me?.
I purchased the LG Slim Portable GP60 today and discovered that it works fine with my iMac running 10.6.8 but when I plugged it into my MBP running 10.8.4 it gives me an initialization error "A valid DVD drive could not be found." [-70012]. Oddly, I put a disk in the drive and it shows up on the desktop but will not play. Have you heard of this issue and do you know of any solutions?
It should be plug and play. I have a 3rd party external burner connected to my iMac. It burns data disks, with iDVD it can burn DVDs compatible with DVD players, and music CDs. I've never installed a driver for it.
Could you expand on your comment about the article you found? What article where? I've got an LG slim portable GP50 and have nothing but problems playing dvds on my mac air. Occasionally a movie will play but more often than not, it won't work.
I'm not sure what your issue is but here is the info I used to get my GP50 to work properly. I modified the DVDPlayback.framework file. You might try another media player first before modifying the file.
I had exact same issue, and not just with external DVD player, also with hard drives I was using to try and transfer backups of previous data...
Finally out of frustration I tried a different plug which has a double usb (plugged both into imac) and then the normal plug that goes into the LG portable DVD writer and VOILA - worked like a charm :-) ... same was true of my Transcend hard drive!!!
Hope this helps!
I to was having this same issue. After using my drive to burn a dvd only once, it quit working as if my MacBook Pro would not detect it no matter what I tried. So, after reading this thread I switched out the usb cable that came with my drive for another one that I had lying around and now my drive works perfectly every time. I am wondering if LG might have had a bad batch of usb cables that all ended up in these types of drives.
I walked into the same problem. I have a LG Slim Portable DVD writer GP30NW20. I used a USB-cable to plug in. Didn't work. Then used the USB cable (USB 2.0) that had been supplied with the device. It's a somewhat thicker cable with an extra USB connector. Now it worked.
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In computing, an optical disc drive is a disc drive that uses laser light or electromagnetic waves within or near the visible light spectrum as part of the process of reading or writing data to or from optical discs. Some drives can only read from certain discs, but recent drives can both read and record, also called burners or writers (since they physically burn the organic dye on write-once CD-R, DVD-R and BD-R LTH discs). Compact discs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs are common types of optical media which can be read and recorded by such drives.
As of 2021[update], most of the optical disc drives on the market are DVD-ROM drives and BD-ROM drives which read and record from those formats, along with having backward compatibility with CD, CD-R and CD-ROM discs; compact disc drives are no longer manufactured outside of audio devices. Read-only DVD and Blu-ray drives are also manufactured, but are less commonly found in the consumer market and mainly limited to media devices such as game consoles and disc media players. Over the last ten years, laptop computers no longer come with optical disc drives in order to reduce costs and make devices lighter, requiring consumers to purchase external optical drives.
Optical disc drives are an integral part of standalone appliances such as CD players, DVD players, Blu-ray Disc players, DVD recorders, and video game consoles. As of 2017, the PlayStation and Xbox consoles are the only home video game consoles that are currently using optical discs as its primary storage format, as the Wii U's successor, the Nintendo Switch, began using game cartridges,[1] while the PlayStation Portable is the only handheld console to use optical discs, using Sony's proprietary UMD format. They are also very commonly used in computers to read software and media distributed on disc and to record discs for archival and data exchange purposes. Floppy disk drives, with capacity of 1.44 MB, have been made obsolete: optical media are cheap and have vastly higher capacity to handle the large files used since the days of floppy discs, and the vast majority of computers and much consumer entertainment hardware have optical writers. USB flash drives, high-capacity, small, and inexpensive, are suitable where read/write capability is required.
Disc recording is restricted to storing files playable on consumer appliances (films, music, etc.), relatively small volumes of data (e.g. a standard DVD holds 4.7 gigabytes, however, higher-capacity formats such as multi-layer Blu-ray Discs exist) for local use, and data for distribution, but only on a small scale; mass-producing large numbers of identical discs by pressing (replication) is cheaper and faster than individual recording (duplication).
To support 8 centimetre diameter discs, drives with mechanical tray loading (desktop computer drives) have an indentation in the tray. It can however only be used in horizontal operation. Slot loading drives, frequently used in game consoles and car radios, might be able to accept 8 centimetre discs and center the disc automatically.
Optical discs are used to back up relatively small volumes of data, but backing up of entire hard drives, which as of 2015[update] typically contain many hundreds of gigabytes or even multiple terabytes, is less practical. Large backups are often instead made on external hard drives, as their price has dropped to a level making this viable; in professional environments magnetic tape drives are also used.
With an option in the optical disc authoring software, optical disc writers are able to simulate the writing process on CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R and DVD-RW, which allows for testing such as observing the writing speeds and patterns (e.g. constant angular velocity, constant linear velocity and P-CAV and Z-CLV variants) with different writing speed settings and testing the highest capacity of an individual disc that would be achievable using overburning, without writing any data to the disc.[4]
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