External EZQuest Boa FireWire DVD-RW on 9.2.2

[Rick Dangerous]

The internal DVD drive on my cube died on my and I picked up one of these EZQuest Boa FireWire DVD-RW drives.  Its a firewire drive and plugs right in but no discs or DVD's will pop up on my desktop.  

Do I need drivers for this beast?  My assumption is that in 9.2.2 it should be plug and play as my MCE CDR drive is.

Thanks in advance!  

PS-No I do not have the one in the pictures with the disc, but from what I can tell it has information only on it no drivers. 

 

[rsolberg]

Do you have "FireWire Enabler" and "FireWire Support" in your Extensions folder?

 

[Macdrone]

and turned on in extention manager?

 

[Macdrone]

Also some drives do need drivers.  Especially when it comes with a disk like pictured, I would almost bet its not apple supported, and the cube was in the time frame that it may not play well with 3rd party drives. 

 

[Rick Dangerous]

I will check, thanks for the ideas guys. 

Where would you get drivers for something like this for OS9 these days?  Checked The Macintosh Repository drivers page but no luck.  Will have to check Mac Garden..

 

[rsolberg]

If the FireWire extensions avenue doesn't lead to a solution, I'd be inclined to suspect a problem with the drive. Does the drive show up in Apple System Profiler? If so, it's probably a hardware issue, not software.

Usually, FireWire-attached optical drives will read discs as long as the FireWire extensions are loaded. In Mac OS 9.1 and later, the Finder has disc burning capabilities. This may be limited or disabled if an Apple supported burner isn't present, but the Finder should still read discs, and third party burning software can write to blank media.

 

[Rick Dangerous]

I think the drive is busted because I tested it with my G3 Pismo under 9.2.2 and 10.4.11 and no disks would pop up on the desktop.  Bummer.

At least I got a refund from the ebay seller and my hunt for an external DVD-R drive that will also play DVD movies continues...and/or my search for a replacement for my internal cube drive, or instructions to lube/repair it.  

It works it just has the "lazy eject" problem and I have to pull the disc out with tweezers with electrical tape on them so I don't scratch the discs.  lol