From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] To be a dvd drive or not to be dvd drive...
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 05:16:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11307678.UK13BfCpHt@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110620233409.GC20378@solfire>
On Tuesday 21 June 2011 01:34:09 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Matthew Finkel <matthew.finkel@gmail.com> [11-06-21 01:24]:
> > On 06/20/11 13:50, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Attached to a USB port of my PC (linux-2.6.39.1 vanilla) there is a
> > > USB to IDE converter, which makes my "old" dvd burner accessible via
> > > my SATA only PC.
> > > I thought...
> > > When I connect everything as described, insert an empty DVD and
> > > start
> > > k3b, an error message is displayed saying that there is no DVD drive
> > > (or better no drive at all).
> > >
> > > Things change, when I insert an already written DVD first, connect
> > > everything, start k3b and replace the dvd with an emplty one.
> > > Then this world is one of the best to burn dvds. ;)
> > >
> > > I took a look into /dev and found, that there is a /deb/usbdev2.5
> > > when
> > > the drive is loaded with an empty dvd. This one is replaced by
> > > /dev/sr0 (including correct links to /dev/dvd and such) when the
> > > drive
> > > gets loaded with a already filled dvd.
> >
> > Can you create a symlink from /dev/usbdev2.5 to /dev/dvd?
>
> Yes, I did this before posting here and it does not work.
have a look at udev rules.
I have a dvd burner in an externel usb case for ages - and everything works
well.
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2011-06-20 17:50 [gentoo-user] To be a dvd drive or not to be dvd drive meino.cramer
2011-06-20 23:13 ` Matthew Finkel
2011-06-20 23:34 ` meino.cramer
2011-06-21 3:16 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
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