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<blockquote data-quote="DriftNismo" data-source="post: 1611039" data-attributes="member: 79409">My apologies if there is already a thread on this, I searched Google and here but couldn't find anything on it.I recently got an official Apple external USB SuperDrive (pre-owned) from Ebay to use with my MBA, and it appears to be broken or at least something is wrong with it. When I plug the USB into the MBA, the drive makes a few noises and shows up in Disk Utility (albeit greyed out and not selectable). However, when I try to insert a disc, the disc does one of two things. Either I can only push the disc in halfway and something solid inside prevents me from inserting the disc any further (with no effort from the Superdrive to pull the disc in), or as soon as it senses me inserting a disc it acts as if it's trying to pull it in (noises and vibrations and such) but doesn't let me insert it at all, it's just blocked completely. If the disc is inside like 1/4 by this time it feels as if its trying to crush it then it stops.To get it back to the state it was when first plugging in i've just been using drutil eject in Terminal and trying it again but it looks like I'm not going to have any luck with it. Has anybody been through this and know a fix for it? Or is it likely that the optical drive needs replacing due to being broken somehow?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DriftNismo, post: 1611039, member: 79409"] My apologies if there is already a thread on this, I searched Google and here but couldn't find anything on it. I recently got an official Apple external USB SuperDrive (pre-owned) from Ebay to use with my MBA, and it appears to be broken or at least something is wrong with it. When I plug the USB into the MBA, the drive makes a few noises and shows up in Disk Utility (albeit greyed out and not selectable). However, when I try to insert a disc, the disc does one of two things. Either I can only push the disc in halfway and something solid inside prevents me from inserting the disc any further (with no effort from the Superdrive to pull the disc in), or as soon as it senses me inserting a disc it acts as if it's trying to pull it in (noises and vibrations and such) but doesn't let me insert it at all, it's just blocked completely. If the disc is inside like 1/4 by this time it feels as if its trying to crush it then it stops. To get it back to the state it was when first plugging in i've just been using drutil eject in Terminal and trying it again but it looks like I'm not going to have any luck with it. Has anybody been through this and know a fix for it? Or is it likely that the optical drive needs replacing due to being broken somehow? [/QUOTE]

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