How to mount Apple's SuperDrive in Ubuntu 20.04

Gerardo Marx Chávez Campos

10/26/22, 3:32 PM

Maybe it sounds strange to use a USB-CD Drive nowadays. However, I need to get an old data from a CD and the only available CD-Drive was my old Apple's SuperDrive. Thus, I did the following steps:

First connect the SuperDrive.
Then, install the sg3-utils by:
```
$ sudo apt-get install sg3-utils
```

Then, to identify where the SuperDrive is use:

$ ls -lt | less | grep sr

 brw-rw----+ 1 root  cdrom      11,   1 jun 26 09:55 sr1
 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root             3 jun 26 09:32 cdrw -> sr0
 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root             3 jun 26 09:32 dvdrw -> sr0
 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root             3 jun 26 09:32 cdrom -> sr0
 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root             3 jun 26 09:32 dvd -> sr0
 brw-rw----+ 1 root  cdrom      11,   0 jun 26 09:32 sr0

choose that with a b in the details of file, in my case is sr1

Then you need to have a CD or DVD ready on the device, please do not push the CD if you try it the Drive will not allowed, the send this code to initialize the Super Drive
```
$ g_raw /dev/sr1 EA 00 00 00 00 00 01 
```
and magically the SuperDrive will introduce the CD and the drive can be used.

However, this procedure has to be repeated after you boot the system again.
Is there a method or procedure to do it easier ???

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Koala Yeung

3/10/23, 10:48 AM

You can create a udev rule file to run this automatically. Create this as /etc/udev/rules.d/90-mac-superdrive.rules:

#
# Apple SuperDrive initialization rule
#
# See: https://gist.github.com/yookoala/818c1ff057e3d965980b7fd3bf8f77a6

ACTION=="add", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1500", ATTRS{idVendor}=="05ac", DRIVERS=="usb", RUN+="/usr/bin/sg_raw %r/sr%n EA 00 00 00 00 00 01"

Read for detailed explaination: https://gist.github.com/yookoala/818c1ff057e3d965980b7fd3bf8f77a6

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TSeymour

4/29/24, 2:27 AM

This worked for me on Pop_OS! 22.04, but only after I unplugged and re-plugged the drive. Sorta obvious, but wanted to post this in case a novice runs across your fantastic answer.

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