
You should be able to read "mbasd=1" where you have placed it.ġ2 - Done! Plug in your MacBookAir SuperDrive. How To: Dual Boot Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9 & Yosemite 10.10 How To: Create a Bootable Install USB Drive of Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan How To: Hunt Down. Some people believe that mbasd stands for: mac book air super driveĨ - press enter to confirm the file name.Ĭat /Library/Preferences/SystemConfigurantion/ Sudo pico /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ģ - You'll be asking to type your administrator password (you'll notice that you'll not see the typing!) - make it and hit enterĪfter your typing it'll looks like = mbasd=1 BE CAREFUL, TYPE SLOWLY, CHECK YOUR TYPING! It seems easy but, if you do some wrong typing you can crack down all of your system.ġ - Open your Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal)Ģ - type the following as a single line, please note that there is 1 space in between sudo and pico and /Library. Please make it carefully, you'll be hacking your system. Please bear in mind that I have done it making use of a MacBook Pro mid 2010 running Mac OSX 10.7.4. However, following the below it is entirely your own risk! So, I found the way below to sort my problem! My wife has a MacBook Air and an external MacBookAir SuperDrive, I have connected it to my MacBook and nothing. I have replaced my optical drive by a 750GB storage memory and I use to rip and copy DVD's of movies to a MPEG4 format for my little son watch in his iPad and suddenly I found myself without a DVD reader. The previously statement from our colleague "mayer" it's not accurate.Īpparently Apple protects our MacBook's of make use of a MacBook Air SuperDrive.
