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Q: My USB superdrive is not longer accepting disks after upgrade to El Capitan.

When I plug the drive in, I hear the drive mechanism engage, but the drive no longer pulls disks into the drive.   The same drive works on Yosemite on another Macbook Pro (retina 15, mid 2014).  The MBP I upgraded to El Capitan is an early 15" early 2011.

 

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Posted on Oct 3, 2015 7:01 PM

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Q: My USB superdrive is not longer accepting disks after upgrade to El Capitan.

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  • by Tony Matthews,

    Tony Matthews Tony Matthews Oct 23, 2015 7:12 AM in response to snig27
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    Oct 23, 2015 7:12 AM in response to snig27

    I also tried (despite concerns about going into Root mode) without any success - in my case the plist file came up as read only and I wasn't able to change it,  Also I found this forum http://www.hardturm.ch/luz/2011/10/how-to-make-the-macbook-air-superdrive-work-w ith-any-mac/ which says, at the end, that this solution is "Not recommended any more on OS X 10.11 El Capitan!]"

  • by snig27,

    snig27 snig27 Dec 10, 2015 6:49 PM in response to Tony Matthews
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    Dec 10, 2015 6:49 PM in response to Tony Matthews

    One hoped that today's OSX upgrade would have addressed this but no, it's still deal. I now use an ASUS drive and thats fine. Folks avoid the Apple Superdrive if you have 10.11.

  • by Tony Matthews,

    Tony Matthews Tony Matthews Dec 11, 2015 12:21 AM in response to snig27
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    Dec 11, 2015 12:21 AM in response to snig27

    Which model Asus drive?  Sounds like the best solution at the moment.

  • by Alex1410,

    Alex1410 Alex1410 Jan 6, 2016 4:43 AM in response to snig27
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    Jan 6, 2016 4:43 AM in response to snig27

    I have the same problem. I found a way to bypass it . When I plug in the superdrive and try to insert a CD it doesn't accept it. So I restart the my laptop (the superdrive remains plugged in) and after the restart everything is ok. Definitely its not a permanent solution so a week ago I contcted Apple's help center, they tried to find a better solution but without success. They told me that they will call me . I believe that this is due to El Capitan . In addition to that FACE TIME its not working at all.

  • by criscran,

    criscran criscran Feb 4, 2016 1:34 PM in response to snig27
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    Feb 4, 2016 1:34 PM in response to snig27

    I have the same problem in that my MacBook Pro has no internal optical drive. So I purchased the Apple SuperDrive thinking "Apple product should be good". After upgrading to El Capitan I can only access my SuperDrive if I reboot with it plugged in. Not a great solution - I really don't want to have to restart my computer every time I want to plug in an external hard drive.

     

    This is Apple product talking to Apple product that has ceased working after an OS upgrade. To my way of thinking Apple should be addressing this - not end users trying work arounds that involve meddling with system files.

  • by ccolotti,

    ccolotti ccolotti Feb 7, 2016 8:06 AM in response to criscran
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    Feb 7, 2016 8:06 AM in response to criscran

    This is absolutely ridiculous that you cannot simply plug in a USB superdrive to read a DVD and you need to REBOOT for it to work with El Capitan.  I mean seriously?  Is this 1982 or something?  *** Apple?!

  • by snig27,

    snig27 snig27 Mar 23, 2016 12:30 AM in response to ccolotti
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    Mar 23, 2016 12:30 AM in response to ccolotti

    Yep, and after the new update Superdrive is still not working. Appalling.

  • by ApteryxMAC,

    ApteryxMAC ApteryxMAC Mar 25, 2016 2:13 AM in response to tbown
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    Mar 25, 2016 2:13 AM in response to tbown

    Hi,

    I got the same problem and I tried the solution by drwilczur

     

    <<the problem is the lack of record "mbasd = 1" in the system. To solve this problem you need to open the "/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist." and edit "apple.Boot.plist" - Text Edit is sufficient.

    The key "Kernel Flags" is empty. You must add between start and end string "mbasd = 1" and the problem is resolved.>>

     

    The solution itself is not working for me, but during the procedure I noticed that the drive worked just fine when the csrutil was disabled...

    In fact the problem is somehow linked to the SIP for me. For now I'm going to leave it disabled, waiting for a working solution.

  • by Nicolene Erasmus,

    Nicolene Erasmus Nicolene Erasmus Jun 6, 2016 11:03 AM in response to Sillydg
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    Jun 6, 2016 11:03 AM in response to Sillydg

    Guess their engineers are still working on the problem - 8 months later!  I have the same problem!

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