On Jan 7, 2012, at 3:13 PM, Dan <dantear...@gmail.com> wrote:

> At 11:29 AM -0800 1/7/2012, JIM RAPER wrote:
> 
>> can't get my super drive to open. I've got the arrow dohicky in my top menu, 
>> but when I click on it , it says "No Drives". I rechecked my connections. 
>> Everything looks and feels "OK".
> 
> Does the drive appear in System Profiler?  If it doesn't try reseating all 
> its cables, power and data.

Also, make sure you didn't bend any pins on the back of the optical drive. 
Another thing to try is switch the power connector with one from one of the 
hard drive bays and see if the machine sees the drive. You may not be getting 
powere to drive right now because of a bad wire. 


Chance

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