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My USB SuperDrive would only play CDs

My USB SuperDrive would only play CDs


Having just purchased the above I found out it would not play DVDs. (Region is correct). After two hours in the Apple Store the Technicians agreed the device is not compatible with Catalina.

My MacAir was downgraded to Mojave and it worked fine.

Has anyone managed to get it to work with Catalina?


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Posted on Jan 17, 2020 3:56 AM

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Posted on Jan 19, 2020 3:30 PM

Update: Thought I’d return to Catalina and take the SuperDrive back to the Apple store.

I plugged it back in to the (Catalina) laptop to make sure there was no disk left inside and to my surprise it now works.

So it looks like I needed Mojave to install the SuperDrive to be able to run it on Catalina!

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Jan 19, 2020 3:30 PM in response to dialabrain

Update: Thought I’d return to Catalina and take the SuperDrive back to the Apple store.

I plugged it back in to the (Catalina) laptop to make sure there was no disk left inside and to my surprise it now works.

So it looks like I needed Mojave to install the SuperDrive to be able to run it on Catalina!

My USB SuperDrive would only play CDs

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