Mac mini M4 suddenly stopped seeing optical drive

UPDATE: Problem solved. The cheap adapter to go from type A to type C failed. I used a quality adapter and the Mac instantly communicated with the drive.

Left the computer on for a while after successfully using the drive. Now it doesn't see it at all. Tried restarting both computer and drive. My keyboard is meant for windows so when I reboot and hold down shift, the computer does not go into safe mode. The optical drive reads discs. When I put a disc in, the drive runs like normal. The Mac does nothing when I put a disc in when the same disc used to autoplay.

Terminal drutil tray eject does nothing when it used to.

The optical drive does not show up under disk utility.

OWC Mercury Pro 24X Super-Multi 24X DVD/CD Burner/Reader External Optical Drive with M-DISC Support

model: OWCMR3USD24

macOS: 15.3.1 (24D70)

base model Mac mini M4 16GB RAM 256 GB HDD