Narrative:
My computer is a Mac (MBP Retina 15") but my team sets up servers and some Windows support so I need it to work on both Mac and Windows.
I received my 2 ISOSticks today. Initially everything was fine on my Mac until I noticed that my card had a guid partition table and therefore the ISOstick would not work on Windows. I saved the config directory and the ISOs to a folder on my desktop and then re-formatted the card w/ MBR,FAT32,4K. I put the files back on the card and now the contents show up on windows and Mac, but the CD-rom drive never shows up. On windows the CD-rom is listed in the Disk Manager, but not in My Computer. Cards are 32GB and 64GB cards listed in compatibility list as working great. I made sure the txt file was names properly ("/config/iso_filename.txt") and opened it in notepad++ to make sure the text was ANSI. the ISO filename is correct and is in the root. The same ISO w/ the same iso_filename.txt worked before the swap to MBR instead of GPT.
TLDR:
On both my Mac and 2 windows machines the card shows up fine inside the device, but no CD-rom.
Not sure what the deal is here.
Side notes (not complaints, just observations):
1. When updating firmware both mine show up as "isostick emergency recovery (/dev/cu.usbmodem40121)" instead of what you said in the tutorial.
2. Figuring out the direction of the card was fairly easy by looking in the hole, but knowing how far to push it in wasn't. I thought that I would be pushing it in too far and either damage the connector or lose the card inside the device.
3. The crypticness/non-straightforward way this device works is fine for a Kickstarter thing, but I kinda expected something being sold on Amazon to be a little more polished. It almost seems easier to just keep carrying around a keyring full of 4GB usb sticks to install things from. :-(