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Optical drive from 2009 MacBook incompatible in Late 2011 MacBook Pro?

Hi all, i swapped the (working) disc drive from a Late 2009 MacBook into a my Late 2011 MacBook Pro that had a broken drive and all it does is take the disc then spit it back out again, is the drive just incompatible? or is there something i could do?

I haven't tested the original drive from the 2011 in another Mac, but could it be that the logic board has an issue with disc drives?

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Hi

Have you considered that the issue could be caused by a bad optical drive cable?

As you said it could also be a logicboard issue but it might be worth trying a different cable

I don’t think it would be a compatibility issue as optical disk drives are like hard drives ,they all use SATA so they are all basically interchangeable

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Apple changed vendors and the drives firmware a few times as such some won’t work across different series.

Compare what you have across these two lists.

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