MacBook Pro Matshita DVD Super Drive

[Kaelon]

Hi there, everyone,

Thanks for an awesome tool in HW-Probe.  I recently "rescued" my Late 2011 MacBook Pro 17", which I had assumed had a faulty DVD drive (since MacOS stopped detecting and using it for years) by installing elementary OS.  When I ran HW-Probe, I was surprised to see the DVD Drive detected!  Here is my public Probe URL:

https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=fb5a640b14

I then further validated this output through the following Terminal command:

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dmesg | egrep -i --color 'cdrom|dvd|cd/rw|writer'
Which produced the following validation:

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[    1.250951] ata2.00: ATAPI: MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8, HA13, max UDMA/100
[    1.258490] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM            MATSHITA DVD-R   UJ-8A8   HA13 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    1.440122] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[    1.440137] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20

So, how exactly do I start making use of this drive on elementary OS? Inserting a CD into the device doesn't trigger the auto-load sensor (the way these superdrives historically worked), but pressing my keyboard's "Eject" button does accurately produce the Eject symbol on my screen along with an illustration of the superdrive itself.  I'm just a bit nervous about inserting something that I won't be able to get out.

Any thoughts?

[linuxhw]

I usually use K3b program which does everything for you (including the available hardware operability test before writing a disc). And it ejects disc on exit.

But you can try to eject it manually by:

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eject /dev/sr0

[Kaelon]

Thanks for the reply.  However, the drive isn't even detected because it's not mounted.  And when I try to mount /dev/sr0 to, for example, /media/iso, I get the standard "no medium is detected" message.