Existing users, 
Help please!!!
I've applied this update. Looked like everything was installed correctly. Progress Bar, Don't shut down-Warning, Optimizing System at the end, Restart, everything OK. "Fine" I thought, but: now my superdrive is not working anymore at all. It is completely dead! Though "about this mac" says it's still there (MATSHITADVD-R UJ-857D) it is completely silent and will not accept any CDs or DVDs or such...
Has anyone heard about this problem? Is it a common bug? Or do I have to "send in" my MB. Appreciate any hint...
Apple SuperDrive
Firmware update for some iMac & Mac mini.
Version: 3.0
SuperDrive dead?
Feedback Type: Troubleshooting Report
Contributed by: dr.weiberg Saturday, July 07 2007 @ 12:53 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
System Info:MBP 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB, Mac OS X 10.4.10
Comments
SuperDrive dead? - kamimac
It's unbelievable that Apple provided users with a faulty firmware update which killed off many people's Superdrives. Since then the firmware has been removed from the Apple's website and no solution has yet been provided! To my knowledge this problem wasn't even aknowledged by Apple, and given that they knew that the firmware was faulty to start with (otherwise they wouldn't have removed it), it just goes to show that Apple cares less and less about customer satisfaction. This behaviour is absolutely inexcusable!!!There has been a solution provided by a Mac user (ben11) that tried to repair Apple's blunder, and many people have reported success with his solution: http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?p=207704#207704
Good luck!
Sunday, November 11 2007 @ 12:12 AM PST
SuperDrive dead? - macguruguy
Did you apply the EFI firmware update first before applying the superdrive update? It says in requirements that the EFI firmware update is required for this update. Maybe you did, but I'm just asking as maybe you didn't and that is the problem...Monday, August 31 2009 @ 08:18 PM PDT
SuperDrive dead? - arcturus1
Sadly, this problem has been reported on the Macfixit site. Quoting from Macfixit:"Dozens if not hundreds of users are now reporting that SuperDrive Firmware Update 2.1 killed their optical drives, with the devices no longer reading media, nor accepting or ejecting."
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Tuesday, July 10 2007 @ 06:28 PM PDT