Apple USB Superdrive works with Mac Pro

Not a question, just figured this would be good a place as any to post to help people that found themselves in the same situation as myself.

My internal superdrive stopped working and I really wanted an Apple Superdrive, but was afraid it wouldnt work. Found a website that helped me do it, but it was confusing enough that some people might not feel comfortable trying it. So i to the plunge and bought the Apple USB Superdrive that was not supposed to work with this computer and posted the instructions for others.

I performed the following task and it works just fine, reads data and works with Apple DVD Player, eject functions work properly. It only took a few seconds and was super easy.

My computer is a 2006 1st gen Mac Pro 2x3.0ghz quad-core intel xeon running Snow Leopard 10.6.8

Do the following:

Open Terminal and paste this:

sudo pico /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

Then press return

Then paste this:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC “-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN” “http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd”>
<plist version=”1.0″>
<dict>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>mbasd=1</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Then press Control-X, press Y, press enter to save it.

Restart your computer

It works

Hope this helps someone make the jump!

Mark