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The machine had been booted and rebooted numerous times, with and without the drive, and the device manager showed it no problem. Not to mention I also did a complete OS refresh at one point (so one short of a complete reinstall). My mobo only has two SATA ports, so I use an expansion card to give m...

Everything I can see confirms it's being identified as a CD ROM drive, from the Disk Utility to fsutil

Other software, which is only looking for optical drives, correctly identifies it.

Would be interesting to understand what MakeMKV uses to determine available optical drives.

I've been using MakeMKV for a while, largely without issue (none that an update didn't fix) but have recently run into the dredded "The program can't find any usable optical drives" error. It was working perfectly, but my Blu-ray drive was failing so I swapped it out. Since then, MakeMKV h...