Catch-22 Drive

A few weeks ago, the motor on my internal CD/DVD drive died, so I dragged out my old external CDROM as an backup while I shopped around for an external replacement (on the grounds that, as my machine is an iLamp, I really didn't want to be mucking about inside, and an external would be cheaper than an internal plus professional labor) and was generally procrastinaty. The old external died over the weekend, so I stopped shilly-shallying and order the external drive I'd decided on (a LaCie, the kind sold in the Apple Store, but nearly half off at CompUSA.com). It arrived today, and I got set to install it today.

Except it needed drivers and stuff from a CDROM. That I couldn't read. Gah.

Fortunately, the company's webpage has plenty of drivers, and I managed to install enough to get it to work (at least, it'll read discs). And they even had a link to a third party little app that would let me bind a key to open the drive. Unfortunately, I can't rebind the regular eject key, but I wasn't using F4 for anything else anyway.

Still, there's annoying irony in needing to install drivers for a CD/DVD drive off a CD before you can use the drive.