Wish to run my old Super Drive

How to connect the Apple USB SuperDrive

You will need a Thunderbolt 3 adapter. The SuperDrive will not work with a dock or hub. Never has in the past. You always had to plug it into a built-in port on a Mac.

Hmmm....you certainly have an interesting situation going on there, Owl02. As I understand it, the Super Drive (the external One) may need more power than can be provided by a dock, especially one that's not powered on its own. That might be part of the problem....the other part is that Apple has restricted it to certain models of MacBook Air and Mac Mini. and MacBook Pro's with a Retina Display in them*. Why ? I dunno. seems like a foolish idea to me. Any external dvd drive should work with any laptop or desktop computer, period. Just plug it in and it works....but in this case it doesn't..... Luckily there's a way around that.....

try this:

• By default, Apple restricts use of the
• SuperDrive to the MacBook Air laptop and certain Mac mini models.
• However, you can unlock the restriction and use it with any Mac computer
• running OS X by editing a file in the SystemConfiguration folder. In
• Finder, navigate to “/library/preferences/system
• configuration/com.apple.boot.plist.” Open the file and add the following
• two lines between the "" and "" tags:
• Kernel Flags
• mbasd=1
• Save the file and reboot the computer.

also, the superdrive will not show up directly until you put a disc of some kind in the slot.

you may wish to invest a few $ into getting an adapter for the superdrive....either the USB-C digital av multiport adapter, the USB-C vga multiport adapter or the USB-C to USB adapter, if you haven't done so already....

well, I tried, anyways.....

*If you go to the large Apple symbol at the top left of your screen, and then go to "About this Mac", you will get a rough model number. Go to everymac.com, and type it in under the "search" feature, and it should tell you everything you need to know about your MacBook Pro....

john b