It worked!
I think I might of fixed mine. I had tried the various drutil commands a few times and given up without it working but I came across several posts including the one quoted below (apple forums) that suggested just repeatedly spamming the commands to "wake up" the drive and it seems to have worked. I was able to install a small game and listen to an audio cd after spamming these commands 20 or so times (with the disc in and out of the drive).
I'm still very confused as to why it just stopped working within the OS after installing Mavericks (yet I was still able to boot from the DVD just fine). Clearly something is bugged in mavericks. I even came across a post on the apple forums from someone with this issue and it was effecting both his late 08 and early 2013 Macbook Pros.
I'll keep an eye on my own machine to see if it stops working again but for now it seems my drive is "fixed" go figure.
I think I might of fixed mine. I had tried the various drutil commands a few times and given up without it working but I came across several posts including the one quoted below (apple forums) that suggested just repeatedly spamming the commands to "wake up" the drive and it seems to have worked. I was able to install a small game and listen to an audio cd after spamming these commands 20 or so times (with the disc in and out of the drive).
I'm still very confused as to why it just stopped working within the OS after installing Mavericks (yet I was still able to boot from the DVD just fine). Clearly something is bugged in mavericks. I even came across a post on the apple forums from someone with this issue and it was effecting both his late 08 and early 2013 Macbook Pros.
I'll keep an eye on my own machine to see if it stops working again but for now it seems my drive is "fixed" go figure.
I have the same problem on a late 2010 MBP. After several hours searching I found one similar fix in various forums. I tried it.
I entered the following in terminal SEVERAL, SEVERAL TIMES- with a cdRW disc and a music cd in and out of the drive.
drutil status
drutil info
drutil getconfig
drutil eject
I had accidentally entered drutil statu and received this info:
Usage: drutil -drive [drive-arguments] command [command-options-and-arguments]
drutil commands are:
atip Displays ATIP information about inserted CD-R/RW media.
bulkerase Bulk erases -RW media in either quick or full mode.
drutil bulkerase (quick | full)
burn Burns a given file or directory to disc.
drutil burn (burn-options) <path>
cdtext Displays CD-Text present on an audio CD.
discinfo Displays disc related info when media is present.
dumpiso Parses ISO-9660 directory structures.
drutil dumpiso <devnode> <block> [format]
dumpudf Parses UDF directory structures.
drutil dumpudf <devnode> <block> [format]
eject Ejects media from the drive (if any).
erase Erases -RW media in either quick or full mode.
drutil erase (quick | full)
filename Translates filenames for different filesystems.
drutil filename <name>
getconfig Displays current and supported device features and profiles.
drutil getconfig (current | supported)
info Displays detailed information about connected drives.
list Lists all connected burning devices.
poll Constantly polls and displays device notifications.
size Estimates size of a given file or directory.
status Displays detailed information about inserted media.
subchannel Displays subchannel (MCN, ISRC) info when CD media is present.
toc Displays TOC information about inserted CD media.
trackinfo Displays track related info when media is present.
tray Opens and closes drive tray, and ejects media.
drutil tray (open | close | eject)
version Display the OS and DiscRecording version numbers.
(specify drutil help <command> for command specific help)
(specify drutil help driveselect for drive selection help)
Since I know the cdRW disc was recognized in disc utility and when I entered drutil status, I decided to focus on the music cd. Whenever the music cd was in the drive it would give me Type: No Media Inserted.
I started entering drutil toc, drutil cdtext and drutil status several MORE times.
I was about to give up when I remembered reading a post that stated he had to enter them a bunch of times over and over and come back 5 minutes later over and over and then it finally started working.
So I decided NOT TO GIVE UP YET. Just after I entered drutil status the next time it kind of paused like it hadn't done before. Then I could feel the drive start to come to life! Then the information for the cd I had in the drive showed up instead of no media inserted! I entered the rest of the commands.
Then booyah! iTunes opened and asked if I wanted to import the songs!
CD is working now fine. BUT... my celebration was cut short when I tried a dvd and it still is not working. I finally got it to read the media in the command prompt, however it is not showing up in Finder or the dvd player.
