No the Air doesn't, but there has to be command line you could use for the DVD player much like enabling the remote cd feature above.
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Any easy way to get DVD player to work on ext. drive?
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GREAT SUCCESS!! Long story short is you can't get this done easy and it appears the Hex editor is the only way around it. This will be my second week trying replacing files, reloading SL, trying to find other players, rebooting, playing w. Hex editor, reloading SL.....
It will work fine w. my MBA too. That isn't the problem. I wanted my MBA SD to work on my optibayed MBP. Hack hardware on MBA SD, hack software on MBP.
This has been quite an exercise but now I've got the X25 160 G2 as main drive, WD Scorpio Blue 500 as secondary and a working MBA SD for when I need an optical. I IZ happy!! Next operation is to remove glass and replace w. a MBA bezel.
Thanks for your help jessica. & Bear Hunter.
I am now watching Larry and as expected, screen shots won't work!
Alright, that's what I'm talking about. What did you do differently from the first time you tried the Hex method?
The Hex editor isn't the easiest to use and I believe there are six Internal - External changes. The last time I just deleted the "In" in internal and replaced w. "Ex" instead of the whole word. Went through and checked it thrice. Removed ext. SD before hack, made hack, rebooted, plugged in and it worked. Who knows what I screwed up before but for the life of me, I couldn't get it to work and inevitably screwed up SL. I think I could do it again pretty easily now that I see it working.
Good job man, yeah I knew the SL version had more than 4 instances of "internal". Thanks for being my guinea pig (just kidding). Glad it worked out for you.
Quick question, Now that you have your DVD player directed to an external source. What happens if you disconnect the ext SD and launch the DVD application? Do you get the error until you plug in the source?
so i installed the optibay, and then the superdrive, went through the hex editor and it worked great.
i just disconnected the drive now, and it will not work without the drive attached. anyone have any advice on how to make it work without the drive attached?
i just disconnected the drive now, and it will not work without the drive attached. anyone have any advice on how to make it work without the drive attached?