My Apple Super Drive is not working on my new Mac Studio M4 under Sequoia 15.5.. Apple Support couldn't give any help. It seems, that it is not possible to burn a CD or import a CD under Sequoia 15.5.. I'm a musician and use the device very often. Does anyone know something about it? Is Apple planing a update to solve this problem? I'm sure not to be the only one with this problem!
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I can confirm that neither Sequoia 15.5 nor the M4 chip are an issue, since my SuperDrive works fine with my M4 Pro MBP running the current MacOS.
I will say that I initially saw the behavior you describe – the drive made a soft 'park' noise when I initially connected it but then the drive would not pull in a disc. But I was multitasking and swiping between desktops, and I had missed the usual popup asking to allow an accessory to connect. I clicked yes, then the SuperDrive worked as usual. It's connected with one of the inexpensive dongles mentioned by Owl-53 (a nonda adapter from Amazon).
Perfectly on a older system…
🙏 I will check it.
For what it's worth, the SuperDrive works with my M1 MacBook Air. I haven't tried any others.
Absolutely no sound. Unfortunately…
Heureka! With the USB C to USB A Adapter the Apple Super Drive is working correctly.
So the USB A connection on the Mac Studio M4 doesn't deliver enough power for the device, USB C does ...
I bought the adapter in a Apple Store and I discussed with the technician about this problem. He "warned" me, that in the next updates Apple wouldn't support anymore external CD and DVD Devices, the CD is dead!
:-( :-( :-( I think for a lot musicians this development is a great disappointment, especially in the world of classical music. I hope that Apple is aware of that and is ready to think about it.
I thank all of you for your great support, the advices, which at the end brought the solution.
Super Drive not working with Sequoia
