What am I doing wrong??? Superdrive.....

[Applefan2015]

Got a 2018 MacBook Pro - Touch Bar.

Today I purchased a superdrive, when I plug it in via the usb c to USB adapter, it picks up the drive. But when I insert a dvd film to play it asks me to select region. I select region 2, and nothing happens.

Please tell me I have not made a mistake in purchasing a superdrive which is not compatible with my Mac?

Thanks

Applefan2015

 

[mpainesyd]

This Apple support page seems to indicate you should not have problems:

How to connect the Apple USB SuperDrive - Apple Support

Find out which Mac computers can use the Apple USB SuperDrive and how to connect it.

support.apple.com

Region selection advice is here:

Change your DVD drive region in DVD Player on Mac

To play a DVD in DVD Player on your Mac, the region code of the DVD must match the region code of your DVD drive.

support.apple.com

If you have recently updated software (eg Catalina) it is possible that you have encountered a bug. I expect that Apple engineers do not do much checking of DVD operation these days.

 

[Applefan2015]

This Apple support page seems to indicate you should not have problems:

How to connect the Apple USB SuperDrive - Apple Support

Find out which Mac computers can use the Apple USB SuperDrive and how to connect it.

support.apple.com

Region selection advice is here:

Change your DVD drive region in DVD Player on Mac

To play a DVD in DVD Player on your Mac, the region code of the DVD must match the region code of your DVD drive.

support.apple.com

If you have recently updated software (eg Catalina) it is possible that you have encountered a bug. I expect that Apple engineers do not do much checking of DVD operation these days.

Thanks for your reply.

I finally got it to play via VLC.

Opened VLC

Open Media

Select Disk

Then Open

Thankfully my money was not wasted

 

[Bigboyrolo]

My superdrive will not show in Finder, it shows in Disk Utility although the software on the disc is greyed out, it loads and ejects OK. I would like it to work because I need to try the old drivers on the disc for my Xerox workstation. Xerox have not produced a new Catalina driver yet, and the generic one does not work. Any ideas?