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 1QYnmq-0004IU-20 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:21:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 49EB81C1A8 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:21:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vx0-f181.google.com (mail-vx0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5E611C0AB for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:13:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxa40 with SMTP id 40so1737779vxa.40 for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:13:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:disposition-notification-to:date :from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=FC6ba7a2FWUInL1gFx3Xbzpa69kFl0E7n4PyIOj/14U=; b=kAcV18pfc55cP0Hk3gOlbd7JRPaRAuTvCpp8EZsNX+cmNER7Yxtq1zuiJm40My9x3H /LbiP1YsA609sfLP5yG2OFmJqWzEsmSVHS2082xVjeRJcAJnwmjYn++10jGgZSucpJOE oopRKwVS8ldf8bw6tlbIK0laevTQfqnxdt6g4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:user-agent :mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version :openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Ol/jTAh7949JziR3b/2gYHv8xAN6CUg+vf5d4GLFfs3Fs/y96fYyb+l2xlV12XMNz9 fdsJdhQ8SvlVTOhbt7aYpafZipW6KVYBXwEHegdNSmeU1PWulizKHryMvRzA8h62nQRU fF6OlrY6c+MPm1XHaLWb+PcAyg3/MT1hPb944= Received: by 10.52.99.10 with SMTP id em10mr4504715vdb.257.1308611630127; Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:13:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.25] (ool-44c64caa.dyn.optonline.net [68.198.76.170]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l18sm3805262vby.14.2011.06.20.16.13.49 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:13:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DFFD420.3070103@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:13:36 -0400 From: Matthew Finkel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110531 Thunderbird/3.1.10 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] To be a dvd drive or not to be dvd drive... References: <20110620175052.GB20378@solfire> In-Reply-To: <20110620175052.GB20378@solfire> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=A946BBCF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e6f75a35dabc8c9fead9758f580dcd41 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?