Hi. it turns out i do have a dvd drive on the laptop, i just didn't know. lol Blessings! maria and Joe chapman Email, iMessage & fb: [email protected] twitter: bubbygirl
On 25 Apr 2014, at 2:21 pm, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > If it is a MacBook Pro from before the Retina Display models, then it > requires you entering a command in Terminal in order to make it work. The > older MacBook Pros with the built-in DVD player didn't normally accept the > USB Super Drive as they expected you to use the internal one. Some folks > have upgraded their MBP's to have an SSD and HDD in them instead of the > Optical drive thus requiring an external DVD of some sort. Third party ones > should work out of the box but the Apple USB Super Drive requires the > following command to be entered while in Terminal: > > sudo nvram boot-args="mbasd=1" > > This will allow the drive to be accessed even when it normally wouldn't be > usable. If you wish to use it with the DVD player app as well, there's > another thing that needs done but I'll leave that for another post if > necessary. > > HTH. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Apr 24, 2014, at 10:01 PM, Maria and Joe Chapman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> when I bought my mac mini a couple of years ago, I bought an external dvd >> drive. It has always worked fine on the mini although I haven't tried it >> since updating to mavericks. I recently bought a macbook pro and when I plug >> the drive in, I get a notification saying that this super drive is not >> supported by this mac. Do I need to update something, or do I need another >> external drive? >> thanks in advance. >> Warm regards and blessings >> Maria, Joe and FurBabies >> Email: iMessage:[email protected] >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
