Superdrive not working on MacBook Pro when using Parallels in Leopard

Just wanted to mention this. I don't know if it's been reported before but I just recently discovered this when attempting to use my drive to read some DVDs. I installed Leopard a couple of weeks ago and haven't used the drive since, so yesterday when I couldn't read any discs I got worried that the drive might be malfunctioning. By accident I closed Parallells in the dock and a while later when giving the drive a last try I was surprised to see that it was fully working again
Just a tip so you don't unnecessarily go and turn in your MacBook (and have to wait like 3-4 weeks before getting it back...).
There are certainly a lot of bugs in Leopard...

When you configured your Parallels host OS you told it to grab the CD drive. Once it has done that it is no longer available to OS X. Go to the lower right corner of the Parallels window and find the CD drive icon. You can release the drive back to OS X there.

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Revision: 1720
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-05-14 14:50:06 -0700 (Wed, 14 May 2008)
Log Message:
Bugs: LCDS-304 - Authentication not working in all cases when using security constraint with NIO endpoints.
QA: Yes
Doc: No
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Update to the TomcatLoginCommand to work correctly with NIO endpoints.
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http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/LCDS-304
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Revision: 1720
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-05-14 14:50:06 -0700 (Wed, 14 May 2008)
Log Message:
Bugs: LCDS-304 - Authentication not working in all cases when using security constraint with NIO endpoints.
QA: Yes
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http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/LCDS-304
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