From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2htv-0002fO-Rb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 04:09:12 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7A47kTV028627; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 04:07:46 GMT Received: from mail24.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail24.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.26]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7A448op007341 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 04:04:09 GMT Received: (qmail 28151 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2005 04:04:44 -0000 Received: from dsl027-182-150.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO chi.speakeasy.net) (rmsand@[216.27.182.150]) (envelope-sender ) by mail24.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Aug 2005 04:04:44 -0000 Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 21:04:46 -0700 From: Bob Sanders To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive Message-ID: <20050809210446.06eed7e0@chi.speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <20050809211545.92554.qmail@web81109.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050809211545.92554.qmail@web81109.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4a (GTK+ 1.2.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f57a74e3-fc1c-452f-8b8b-ad087edaf200 X-Archives-Hash: 96c7936bb9f6f008a9b1e9c62df56c26 On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Gentoo. I ordered a Pacific Digital USB DVD-RW/CD-RW > drive on August 1 and it came in today. I'm not quite > sure how to go about using it though. I mainly use > xcdroast for writing CDs (I make daily backups and > write them to CD once a week.) I use GNOME, and > although my new drive shows up in the "computer:///" > nautilus listing, it is not available to be selected > in xcdroast - it's not listed at all. I don't even > know where to start looking for the solution to this > problem. Can anyone help me? > Hmm...in a shell, as the root user, you'll need to determine what cdrecord likes. You may need to try - cdrecord -scanbus cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATA cdrecord -scanbud dev=sg Generally, USB attached drives show up as SCSI devices, thus an - "ls /dev" will return a list with an sdx, where x is a,b,c, etc. Bob - -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list