Apple usb superdrive is not supported on this mac

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Apple usb superdrive is not supported on this mac

I bought used Apple USB SuperDrive yesterday for $30 as I want to load my DVDs from time to time and found out that suddenly it did not work.

I spend some time trying to find a way to make my Apple USB SuperDrive working as I was getting Apple usb SuperDrive is not supported on this mac error.

Nothing I found really helped. Below is the way I was able to make it work for my Mac.

I have: MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) | Mac OS High Sierra | 10.13.6 | 2,9 GHz Intel Core i7 | 16 GB RAM

A few years back I replaced my RAM and chucked in 2 8GB slots and replaced build in DVD drive with hard drive caddy, so I can put in 256 GB SSD drive as a primary boot drive and 750 GB HDD as data storage placed in DVD drive slot - HDD caddy.

Step by step:

01. check your settings first by running nvram -x -p and searching for <key>boot-args</key>

If you can not find all is good. Continue.

02. reboot your Mac

03. as soon as you hear the "Mac sound" on the grey screen, press Cmd+R to enter Recovery mode

04. Open Utilities -> Terminal

05. Run the command “csrutil disable” to temporarily disable SIP

06. Run the command nvram boot-args="mbasd=1"

07. You can verify if boot-args is added by nvram -x -p and check if you can see:

<key>boot-args</key>

<string>mbasd=1</string>

08. Enable SIP with csrutil enable

09. Reboot your Mac

10. Done. Connect Apple SuperDrive and all works like a charm

It may also work without disabling SIP. I did not try. I just temporarily disable it anyway.