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Use apple DVD drive (superdrive) in Linux

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Attach DVD drive

See if it is recognized

$ dmesg | tail
[357251.566256] scsi 8:0:0:0: CD-ROM            Apple    SuperDrive       2.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[357251.594859] sr 8:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[357251.594867] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[357251.595222] sr 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[357251.595424] sr 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5

Now check the dev folder to see what device id is assigned to the apple drive

$ cd /dev/
$ ls -l sr*
brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 May 22 20:49 sr0

See if the device showed up as sr0. If the drive is identified as sr1 (in case you have another DVD drive plugged in already) then replace sr0 by sr1 in the following commands.

Make sure sg_raw is installed ($ which sg_raw). If it is not installed then install it first by

$ sudo apt-get install sg3-utils

Use the following command to send bytes to the drive which will initialize it.

$ sg_raw /dev/sr0 EA 00 00 00 00 00 01

Insert a disk and test. It should start reading disks now.

Rip audio CD with Asunder and video DVD with Handbrake.

To learn more about ripping video DVD with Handbrake see my Handbrake DVD ripping tutorial.

References:
Use Apple’s USB SuperDrive with Linux: christianmoser.me/use-apples-usb-superdrive-with-linux/


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