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Hack for Apple's Superdrive to work with other systems than OSX / MacOS and MBA

superdrive-enabler

Hack for Apple's SuperDrive to work with other devices than OSX and MBA.

To unlock SuperDrive, compile superdriveEnabler.c

gcc -o superdriveEnabler superdriveEnabler.c

and execute it with the SuperDrive device path

./superdriveEnabler /dev/sr0

Alternatively, use a binary directly from the /dist directory.

sh dist/x86_64/superdriveEnabler_x86_64

For a detailed usage and automation guide, check my blog please.