[gentoo-user] OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

[gentoo-user] OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

[Michael Sullivan]

My internal CD-R drive has been experiencing steadily
worsening power fluctuations over the past year or so.
 I haven't been able to write CDs in Windows in
months, but until recently could still write them in
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?


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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - How to work with USB DVD-RW/CD-RW drive

[Bob Sanders]

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005 14:15:45 -0700 (PDT)
Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@yahoo.com> 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
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