Hello!

I'm having a problem with my external DVD writer. It don't appear in K3B config and I can't mount it.

Sorry, I know there are threads like this in the forum, but none of them solved my problem.

The device is not on my fstab, because I don't know its name under /dev...

dmesg shows the following:

usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 5
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROM ATAPI DVD A DH18A1P ZB21 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
scsi 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
usb-storage: device scan complete

cdrecord --scanbus shows:

Cdrecord-ProDVD-Clone 2.01.01a23 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2006 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.24.3
cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'USB-HS ' 'ST3500630A ' '0.01' Disk
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) *
scsibus2:
2,0,0 200) 'ATAPI ' 'DVD A DH18A1P ' 'ZB21' Removable CD-ROM
2,1,0 201) *
2,2,0 202) *
2,3,0 203) *
2,4,0 204) *
2,5,0 205) *
2,6,0 206) *
2,7,0 207) *
scsibus1001:
1001,0,0 100100) 'TOSHIBA ' 'DVD-ROM SD-R2212' '1N15' Removable CD-ROM
1001,1,0 100101) *
1001,2,0 100102) *
1001,3,0 100103) *
1001,4,0 100104) *
1001,5,0 100105) *
1001,6,0 100106) *
1001,7,0 100107) *

where the section scsibus2 is this drive.

How can I figure its device name???

thx

Hi,

Which kernel are you using? From the cli do ; 'uname -r'.

I'm using 2.6.24.3

Hi,

Did you check the '/dev/sg1' to see if it is linked to the dvd?

Hello

Well, trying to mount /dev/sg1 (and /dev/sg0) as root it returns a "/dev/sg1 is not a block device"... it looks not to be linked to any device.

the devices /dev/cdr, /dev/cdr0, /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrom0, /dev/dvd, /dev/dvd0, /dev/cdwriter and /dev/cdwriter0 are all linked to /dev/hdc, that is the internal cdwriter + DVD (it is not a DVD writer) of my laptop. Is that a problem?

Is there any more output from dmesg? These devices are usually named /dev/srn, where n is a number.

No, there isn't any more info... anything that appears when I plug in the dvd writer is on the first post. I know it works fine under linux because it worked with Debian. But when I got back to Slackware, it stopped working.