External Lacie DVD burner not being recognized

Maybe I'm doing things in the wrong order - I put a Sony DVD into the external burner and then click on the burn tab in DVD Studio Pro. But I get a message saying to put a burnable DVD into the optic drive. When I put the DVD into the internal drive, it's recognized. I never had a problem with the external burner. Am I doing something wrong?

I also have a Lacie burner and although they claim that one no longer needs to download their disc recording support with 10.4 or later, I had to install it because my system (10.5 at the time) wouldn't recognize it (if you recall, Mac OS did not recognize or support external burning in the old days, but is supposed to now - for whatever reason, it did not on mine without installing the Lacie software).
So, you might try first to see if your burner is listed in HD/Library/DiscRecording/Device Profiles. Mine has a file there: LaCie.drprofile from 2008. If you don't have a file there, try going to their support site and downloading the DiscRecording Support; it's an old file, but I've not had a problem with mine.

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Thanks for responding, Miriam.
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