From: Matthew Finkel <matthew.finkel@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] To be a dvd drive or not to be dvd drive...
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:13:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DFFD420.3070103@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110620175052.GB20378@solfire>
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-20 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
2011-06-20 23:34 ` meino.cramer
2011-06-21 3:16 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
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