Needed this Superdrive to add to my 2007 Mac Mini after I added an SSD and a second hard drive for data.
This drive is badass! I had a few issues writing DVD's with the default DVD writer that came with the old Mini. With this drive I haven't had a failure yet.
Oh and for those who say the Superdrive only works on the Macbook Air and the newer Mac Minis all I can say is poppycock!! LOL!!
Here are the instructions on how to make this drive work on ANY Mac.
The trick is to add "mbasd=1" to the Kernel Flags in com.apple.Boot.plist. com.apple.Boot.plist exists by default in Lion, but not in earlier OSes.
There are multiple ways to edit a plist, I'll use TextEdit since every user has it. Since Lion already has com.apple.Boot.plist there are two subsets of instructions, one for Lion and one for all other OS Xes.
Bottom line: com.apple.Boot.plist will look the text between the starred lines when done:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" [...]
<dict>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>mbasd=1</string>
</dict>
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First, launch TextEdit.
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For Lion:
Copy /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist to the Desktop. Drag the file onto TextEdit's icon in the Dock. The file will look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" [...]
<dict>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string></string>
</dict>
Add the text "mbasd=1" (no quotes, no extra spaces) between <string> and </string>. It should look like the text between the starred lines above. Save and close the file.
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For Snow Leopard and earlier:
In TextEdit create a new document, then copy all the text above into the document. Save it to the Desktop using the name com.apple.Boot.plist and close the document.
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Finally: Copy the file to /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration and authenticate when asked. Restart, the SuperDrive will now work.
