Adding an external DVD-R drive

[chelseasian]

Hi!

I have added an external DVD burner to my Powermac G5 and for some strange reason, OS X seems to think that this external drive is now the primary DVD drive. Is there a way to switch it? I.e. the built-in Superdrive as primary drive and the external as secondary?

Thank you.

 

[MacFan25863]

What do you mean by the primary drive? I don't think Mac OS really chooses a "primary" and "secondary" disk drive...

 

[Artful Dodger]

Hi!

I have added an external DVD burner to my Powermac G5 and for some strange reason, OS X seems to think that this external drive is now the primary DVD drive. Is there a way to switch it? I.e. the built-in Superdrive as primary drive and the external as secondary?

Thank you.

Turn it off and it won't be reconized or go into system profiler and look at the device tree and see which is listed. I know that using Toast this would happen and you could select one to be the primary but not since using OS9 have I had to do this in the profiler