CD in the status bar is not recognized - why?

Hello

Sometimes, my Mac Pro won't recognize a CD loading.   It is very intermittent.  When this happens, the drive icon does not appear on the desktop and the status bar does not eject with any normal methods.   In addition to the CD does not appear in the disk utility, and frequently disk utility does not open.

Based on other posts, this seems to be an unusual problem.  I've seen a lot of posts on how to get the tray open.

What I've not seen, that is WHY this problem occurs and that will set to put in place to prevent it from happening again.

Any help in identifying a cure is greatly appreciated.

Don't know... all I can do is to suggest a few things and hope that works... Try first, is a cleaning disc with brushes integrated in the drive or a good breath of air. If you have a Mac Pro Tower, you can remove the optical drive and open it, the laser inside lens may be dirty, if it does not, a Q-Tip and windex could. I don't know how old is your drive, but if it is one of the original Optiarc ones, they do and can go wrong sometimes, but are easy to replace. According to the age/model of your Mac pro, you can use virtually any SATA optical drive or a SATA optical drive with an ATAPI/IDE bridge Board connected to the rear. Make sure the jumpers on the back (if there are any) are set to CSEL, expected your drive must be replaced, too, zap the pram (well, it's worth a try, anyway) I... .is the commercial cd or it is home made?

Let us know how that turns out

Good luck

John B

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