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 1QYoSD-0007x7-4w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:04:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 558321C1AC for ; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:04:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.22]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D380C1C04A for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:34:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 20 Jun 2011 23:34:05 -0000 Received: from p54851CA9.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO gmx.net) [84.133.28.169] by mail.gmx.net (mp046) with SMTP; 21 Jun 2011 01:34:05 +0200 X-Authenticated: #20088476 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/vE1llcJPvGzi3JGKPvGbjTuzQFBQj7RI6DUxzeG JNYry0IzcPaW9p Received: by gmx.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 Meino.Cramer@gmx.de; Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:34:09 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:34:09 +0200 From: meino.cramer@gmx.de To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] To be a dvd drive or not to be dvd drive... Message-ID: <20110620233409.GC20378@solfire> References: <20110620175052.GB20378@solfire> <4DFFD420.3070103@gmail.com> 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-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DFFD420.3070103@gmail.com> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d17a89c80652aed0efdf4dc29096e09f 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.