mounting usb dvdburner

d2490n · 01-17-2006, 08:59 PM

i searched around but dint find anything that i can use with my limited knowledge of the operating system. i want to mount my plextor px708uf2 usb dvd burner in slackware 10.2.

if i knew what the name of the usb drive was in /dev i think i wold be able to do it by adding /dev/(usb name) to fstab and using mount /mnt/usb. is that right?

any help is appreciated.
sorry if this is a dumb question.

michaelk · 01-17-2006, 09:23 PM

Check the output of the console command dmesg to see if the burner is being recognized. A USB burner is typically /dev/scd0. If the device does not look like it is being recognized then all of SCSI modules may not be loading. Post the output of the command lsmod.

d2490n · 01-17-2006, 09:56 PM

dmesg is vary long, but somewhare itn thair it gives this.

Quote:

USB Mass Storage support registered.
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: DVDR PX-708A2 Rev: 1.02
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 00
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
usb-storage: device scan complete

so its recognized.

heres lsmod, waht am i looking for here?

Quote:

Module Size Used by
usb_storage 68416 0
smbfs 58616 2
snd_pcm_oss 46240 0
snd_mixer_oss 15872 1 snd_pcm_oss
ipv6 225600 10
ohci_hcd 18436 0
intel_agp 19356 1
uhci_hcd 29584 0
ehci_hcd 29704 0
hw_random 4500 0
shpchp 91364 0
i8xx_tco 6036 0
tpm_atmel 4608 0
tpm_nsc 5504 0
tpm 7584 2 tpm_atmel,tpm_nsc
snd_intel8x0 27968 2
snd_ac97_codec 75388 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm 75016 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 19716 1 snd_pcm
snd 45572 10 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 6880 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7556 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
nvidia 3703688 14
8139too 22016 0
mii 4608 1 8139too
ohci1394 30388 0
ieee1394 85304 1 ohci1394
pcmcia 30368 2
firmware_class 7424 1 pcmcia
yenta_socket 21516 2
rsrc_nonstatic 11136 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 34320 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
nls_utf8 1792 1
evdev 7296 0
ntfs 182672 1
agpgart 28616 2 intel_agp,nvidia
psmouse 29956 0

thanx alot.

michaelk · 01-18-2006, 04:56 PM

Try mounting the drive via device /dev/sr0.
However, I do not see usbcore, scsi_mod nor sr_mod modules loading.
Do have any other USB devices like flash disks?

d2490n · 01-19-2006, 01:45 AM

mounted/dev/scd0 and that worked.
thanx for the help.