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I finally solved this tonight. I found it by chasing down some different web discussions: since the drive was visible to OSX, and could mount BD disks with no issue, but was TOTALLY UNAVAILABLE to MakeMKV. I ran SystemReport, then after verifying (for the eleventeenth time) that the physical machine...

I don't know if this is relevant for you, but I had a very similar problem, and solved it tonight. There was some piece of copy protection software, ProTec6, which had gotten installed by something I used, into /mybootdrive/Library/StartupItems folder. I found it by chasing down some different web d...

Yeah, mine's a 2012 mid-year unit (off topic: which can't support AirDrop - wtf?) Tried putting disks into the external BD both before and after starting MKV; I've reinstalled MKV; I've restarted the machine, clearing the PROM and SCM. Doesn't I've tried using MKV on the "hard drive" it se...

For what it's worth, I've started having the exact same issue. MakeMKV has always seen the BD drive since I plugged it in about 6 months ago (a highly recommended LG unit), and worked flawlessly. Suddenly, the OS sees the BD drive (it never has), and now it's not available as an optical drive for Ma...