Month: October 2013

  • How to use Superdrive on any Macbook Pro

    Adds mbasd=1 (MacBook Aire Super Drive) to /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist as a kernal flag:

    <?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>
    

    Or, use the following command in Termimal:

    sudo nvram boot-args="mbasd=1"
    

    Note that nvram may be reset for some core system update (you can also manually reset nvram), so I prefer the .plist method.