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Hi,

Could someone step me through mounting an exteranl USB CDRW drive on my laptop running RH 8.0? I am trying to mount the drive on top of an internal DVD CDROM.

My system seemed to recognize both the internal and external devices after I rebooted my laptop with the external USB device plugged in. When I type "cdrecord -scanbus", I got the following:

Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'USB ' 'CD-R/RW 6X4X6 ' 'E.CC' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'TOSHIBA ' 'DVD-ROM SD-R2102' '1016' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *

When I typed "cat /proc/scsi/scsi", I got the following:

Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: USB Model: CD-R/RW 6X4X6 Rev: E.CC
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: DVD-ROM SD-R2102 Rev: 1016
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02

When I type "lsmod", the following modules are listed:

Module Size Used by Tainted: P
sg 36556 0 (autoclean)
vfat 13084 0 (autoclean)
fat 38712 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
i810_audio 25224 0 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 13384 0 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
soundcore 6532 2 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
sd_mod 13584 0 (autoclean) (unused)
sr_mod 18136 0 (autoclean)
agpgart 43072 3 (autoclean)
nvidia 1593856 11 (autoclean)
binfmt_misc 7524 1
parport_pc 19108 1 (autoclean)
lp 8996 0 (autoclean)
parport 37152 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
cisco_ipsec 401824 0
autofs 13348 0 (autoclean) (unused)
3c59x 30640 1
ipt_REJECT 3736 6 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2412 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 14936 2 [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
microcode 4668 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 10512 0
ide-cd 33608 0
cdrom 33696 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
usb-storage 62000 0
scsi_mod 107176 5 [sg sd_mod sr_mod ide-scsi usb-storage]
mousedev 5524 1
keybdev 2976 0 (unused)
hid 22244 0 (unused)
input 5888 0 [mousedev keybdev hid]
usb-uhci 26188 0 (unused)
usbcore 77024 1 [usb-storage hid usb-uhci]
ext3 70368 5
jbd 52212 5 [ext3]

The following info is found concerning "USB" in dmesg:

usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1800, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:1d.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.1 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1820, IRQ 5
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/1, assigned device number 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x1189/0x6000) is not claimed by any active driver.
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
Adding Swap: 530104k swap-space (priority -1)
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: USB Model: CD-R/RW 6X4X6 Rev: E.CC
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
USB Mass Storage support registered.

Lastly, the following is the content of my /etc/fstab after rebooting with the CDRW attached:

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/opt /opt ext3 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=/tmp /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

When I tried to mount /mnt/cdrom1, the system complains with the following:

mount: No medium found

Being a newbie, I have no idea how to use all these information to figure out how to mount the external device. Can anyone help? And which device file should be used? I haved tried scd0, and I got the same "No medium found" error. Finally, any recommendation for cd burner software for RH?

Thank you so much for your help.