Questions & Answers for Apple USB SuperDrive

Yes.

• Answered by Nicholas P from Westport
• 05 14, 18
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Will the SuperDrive record dual-layer DVD's?)

No. The SuperDrive is USB 2.0. There is no difference in speed between 3.0 and 2.0 because a CD can be written at max 16x which is 2 megabytes a second or a DVD can be written at max 8x which is 11 megabytes a second. (I am assuming you are using the fastest possible CD/DVD) USB 2.0 runs at a peak speed of 60 megabytes a second which is more than enough to handle the write and read speed of a CD/DVD

• Answered by Dean S from Encino
• 06 18, 12
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (So is this new Superdrive USB 3.0 or 2.0 then? Would like to hope it was 3.0 to match the new specs of the Macbook Pro & Macbook Air?)

Yes.

• Answered by Elliott C
• 06 21, 18
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (can apple superdrive be used to import CD to itunes on iMac 2017)

I just added a usb superdrive to my 2009 iMac 24", and like the others it did not work, as for the reasons given.
it seems that they only work with some macs.
Well looking round the net i found information on things to try nothing worked.

I then found a bit on a sudo command you put in with terminal.

ok your new superdrive dvd/cd rom want work on you mac?

it seems apple made this drive but its not back ward comparable with all macs.
Im told it works with 4 macs, that shipped without internal dvd/cd rom and a mac mini or two..

Well I found this in terminal type

sudo nvram boot-args="mbasd=1" Hit return

I rebooted my iMac and as the iMac was starting up it took the DVD that I had been trying to put in but all it did was push it back out.
Now with this little line of code script my USB superdrive is now working just fine.
I don't know much about this script code apart from what I read on the net, all I know it worked for me with no trouble I have wrote a few DVDS and wrote to a few re-writable CD and DVD with out any thing bad

hope it helps some of you out.
Leggoman

• Answered by Alan W
• 12 16, 15
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (2009 iMac and USB superdrive?)

There are no updates for USB Superdrive. Just keep your iTunes up to date.

• Answered by Don S from Three Rivers
• 01 20, 17
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (what updates are needed for the usb superdrive)

Almost certainly not unless you're running Windows on your MacBook Air.

But if you are running a suitable version of Windows in a Boot Camp partition or in a virtual machine on the Air, you'll almost certainly be able to play a PC video game from the SuperDrive. I've run lots of PC software on Windows 8 running under VirtualBox on a MacBook Air. Game software should be fine, too (although many games don't run well in virtual machines, but fine in a Boot Camp partition).

• Answered by Michael G from Campbell
• 06 15, 16
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Does the superdrive play PC video games on a Macbook air?)

it would've been very nice if you could do that, but unfortunately it's not possible as of yet. you have to stick to an external regular DVD player

• Answered by Ciprian L from Manchester
• 12 11, 12
• Flag as inappropriate Answer (Can I attach a SuperDrive to a tv and use it as DVD player (no MacBook involved))