![]() ![]() But still, you'll be doing this entirely on your own risk! Using command line in recovery mode and editing system files incorrectly can damage things severely - make sure you have a backup before starting! Basically, it's a clean and safe trick that has proven working fine for many users since 2011. This option can be activated on El Capitan (10.11) and later following the procedure below. With some investigation and hacking back in 2011, I found out that Apple engineers apparently had the need to test the superdrive with officially not supported Macs themselves, so the driver already has an option built-in to work on any machine. Nowadays, Apple does not sell these models any more, but many of these older Macs are still very good machines, especially when upgraded to SSD like my MBP. Only to find out, like many other people, that Apple prevents the superdrive to be used with Mac models that originally came with a built-in superdrive. Long time ago, I bought an external Apple USB SuperDrive for my MacBook PRO 17" late 2010, in which I had replaced the built-in superdrive by a SSD to speed up the machine. ![]() For earlier Mac OSes (and more context), please refer to the original post. It describes how to apply a simple trick to make the MacBook Air SuperDrive work with any Mac. This is an updated version of an earlier post, adapted for Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan and later. ![]()
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