LETTER OF THE MONTH

In your response to the Letter of the Month in the January 2021 issue about music CDs and ripping them, you said this regarding using an Apple SuperDrive: “The Apple SuperDrive reads and writes… plugged into an USB port (obviously on newer MacBooks you’ll also need a hub to do this).”

At least on my older Macs, if I don’t plug the SuperDrive directly into the USB port, it will not work. Plugging into a powered hub (either of the two different hub brands I have) is not sufficient to get my SuperDrive to be recognized by my Macs. The disk will not get sucked into the SuperDrive.

So, are you certain that on USB–C Macs you can go through a hub with a SuperDrive? MIKE SAKARIAS

According to Apple you can: support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202665. We’ve not tested the SuperDrive with different hubs or adapters, however, so we couldn’t comment on whether it works with other third–party devices. (Though we see no reason why it shouldn’t — Apple’s own recommendations aren’t powered.) Anyone else out there having problems powering it?