Paul Wardenga wrote:

> hello everyone.
>
> i'm trying to figure out how to get my external dvd-r drive working
> with k3b. everything seemed to work just fine, plugged it in,
> automatically got assigned a /dev and a mountpoint.
> but k3b doesn't recognize it. even "add device" and giving the /dev
> manually doesn't work. also tested graveman, just the same there, just
> my internal /dev/hdc cdwriter shows up, but the external dvdwriter,
> /dev/scd0, is not available.
> any suggestions?

What versions of cdrecord, k3b and Fedora/Red Hat??

What is the output with the external device attached of the command;
cdrecord dev= -scanbus

Example(external usb device);
$ cdrecord dev=/dev/scd0 -scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg
Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in
this version.
scsidev: '/dev/scd0'
devname: '/dev/scd0'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version
(schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c
1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'TOSHIBA ' 'DVD-ROM SD-R6112' 'X231' Removable
CD-ROM


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Lenard schrieb:
> Paul Wardenga wrote:

>
> What versions of cdrecord, k3b and Fedora/Red Hat??
>
cdrecord-clone 2.01-dvd, k3b 0.11.24, fedora core 3 with some 2.6.9 kernel

> What is the output with the external device attached of the command;
> cdrecord dev= -scanbus
>

Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg
Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in
this version.
scsidev: '/dev/scd0'
devname: '/dev/scd0'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version
(schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c
1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'RICOH ' 'DVD+RW MP5316DAG' '2.B9' 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) *




seems like doing scanbus with cdrecord was the solution to the whole
problem. as i started k3b afterwards to check the version number, it
detected the drive, no probs. =)

thanks for your help

paul

Paul Wardenga wrote:

> Lenard schrieb:
>> Paul Wardenga wrote:
>
>>
>> What versions of cdrecord, k3b and Fedora/Red Hat??
>>
> cdrecord-clone 2.01-dvd, k3b 0.11.24, fedora core 3 with some 2.6.9
> kernel

Suggest that you upgrade both k3b (latest is 0.12.3) and the kernel
(latest is 2.6.12-1.1376). You can find the k3b-0.12.3 rpm for FC3 at;
http://rpm.pbone.net/



> seems like doing scanbus with cdrecord was the solution to the whole
> problem. as i started k3b afterwards to check the version number, it
> detected the drive, no probs. =)

Maybe just a matter of timing, depending on the hardware, process and
timing(you perhaps did not wait long enough). But I'm glad the device
is now usable.



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