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How to use USB Superdrive with Macbook PRO (non retina display) with Mountain Lion

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macoffman

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Sep 29, 2012
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The internal optical drive is no longer reading disc so I bought a USB Superdrive not knowing it wasn't compatible with my computer. I know there are easy modifications out there to make it work but I can't find the files on my computer to modify. The most common and easiest fix is to modify the com.apple.boot.plist file but I cannot find it in mountain lion. Can anyone help?

Thanks!
 
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palmharbor

macrumors 6502
Jul 31, 2007
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not going to work

the external superdrive for 10.8.2 does not work..AppleCare does not know why so don't bother. I have the same issue. Its the .2 Update. U cannot get a clean copy of 10.8 anymore as Apple added the updates if you want to reinstall the OS.
 
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switon

macrumors 6502a
Sep 10, 2012
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RE: nvram...

Hi,

You might try setting the nvram boot arguments yourself using:

sudo nvram boot-args="mbasd=1"
<reboot the MBP>

to see if this works under 10.8.2. I haven't tried this myself since I no longer have the machine to test this on, but I do know that it worked on a MBP under 10.8.1 when I did own that machine.

Good luck,
Switon
 
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karsten

macrumors 6502a
Sep 3, 2010
891
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switon said:
Hi,

You might try setting the nvram boot arguments yourself using:

sudo nvram boot-args="mbasd=1"
<reboot the MBP>

to see if this works under 10.8.2. I haven't tried this myself since I no longer have the machine to test this on, but I do know that it worked on a MBP under 10.8.1 when I did own that machine.

Good luck,
Switon
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is there a way to do this when booting off a mountain lion install CD? just making sure my bases are covered
 
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