From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QYsEJ-0001u5-DF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:06:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E675D1C0AA for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:06:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9F661C04D for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 03:16:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm8 with SMTP id 8so1419267fxm.40 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:16:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding :content-type; bh=Pc4h5b3mEDyDKMRcqJk9LxCApdSeflG7BfjmkULcz2E=; b=BqiBEWckRrPk2Fif37fN/fgo1yWn3uutc2/z3w25aIofuU0Bwhwvan6pUqF+lUeiw0 d/t6sWBWxgobpgrnmfIrjCF7Fokw2v+KiwvkC5RJ7PjxDZsE4D6J1F+pPdHcgH+6RR8a EHwXD45jQEHbvDouFjI6MY33k+coIhgzz2B0Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; b=pMdhL2BIWICWg1uVH3ejyffkLnK1DkoDjs13Kq624Yyket0/HDlZNuu4j5OdgvcpeC 5OdQ3lLC8c4wtftvIJO1d6VM8IVPf/Zk2DkuT9bZhTqFNbQ7oeu3MoPUQJp8HhK8/V6d fOktjNT03SCTaqVtp7pnXu8gNwtYB3cJe8OLo= Received: by 10.223.102.131 with SMTP id g3mr4776683fao.68.1308626168851; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:16:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localnet (p4FC7487E.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.199.72.126]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e16sm3126941fak.41.2011.06.20.20.16.07 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:16:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann 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 Message-ID: <11307678.UK13BfCpHt@localhost> User-Agent: KMail/4.6.0 (Linux/2.6.39.1r4; KDE/4.6.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20110620233409.GC20378@solfire> References: <20110620175052.GB20378@solfire> <4DFFD420.3070103@gmail.com> <20110620233409.GC20378@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: eb1d414d90dfa8ecd59e43712159be64 On Tuesday 21 June 2011 01:34:09 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > Matthew Finkel [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. -- #163933