Possible to disable Superdrive without physically disconnecting cables?

[star5]

Hello. I'm using a late 2008 UBMBP 15". I hardly use the superdrive at all, and I was wondering if there was a way to disable/enable via software or kext work as opposed to physically disconnecting the cable.

Will it help with battery life, being disabled?

BTW, I noticed that the EFI and superdrive updates that came out today eliminated the noise when shutdown/startup/sleep and sped up those times on my machine.

Thank you.

 

[kryptonianjorel]

If you dont have a disk in it, then it isn't using any power

 

[rgarjr]

Dude, if u ain't using the drive, it won't eat battery life.

 

[star5]

Thanks for the replies.

My wife has an Air Rev A, SL. Shutdown and sleep and awake from sleep are almost instantaneous. My macbook pro lagged b/c it was always checking the superdrive, which is another reason why I wanted to disable it because I wasn't using it.

I don't know if the new EFI / Superdrive update which eliminated the sounds the drive was making is actually doing anything more than just getting rid of the noise...

 

[Consultant]

My wife has an Air Rev A, SL. Shutdown and sleep and awake from sleep are almost instantaneous.

Does it have SSD drive? Probably due to the SSD drive instead of a disk based harddrive.

 

[star5]

Does it have SSD drive? Probably due to the SSD drive instead of a disk based harddrive.

Nope. It has the stock PATA drive, 80gb.