MacBook Air SuperDrive

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

I was sifting through the kext files and found out that the MacBook Air Superdrive called the file AppleUSBODD.kext upon further inspection I found the file I needed to modify
/System/Library/Extensions/AppleStorageDrivers.kext
/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBODD.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleUSBODD

Now I found the best program to edit the file to be BBEdit as you can authenticate right in the program and not mess up the file permissions. If you do a find for "macbook" you'll find the part you need to modify, it's in there twice.

You might notice the MacMini3,1 is in there. For some reason the new MacMini can use the MacBook Air SuperDrive right out of the box as well as remote disk access.

The only downfall for this setup on the MacBook is you have to restart the OS and after the startup chime hold the option key to bring up the boot manager. You should hear the drive being accessed, after that you can boot as normal and the drive will keep working as needed until it is unplugged from the computer. It also works in Bootcamp if thats your thing...

I've also posted a video for people to see

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