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Has anyone successfully used a USB optical drive in BL? Someone gave us a 
USB CD/DVD-RW drive which was detected once (but not again) as sr1 by 
Puppy Linux (in a computer that is having trouble finding its internal 
drive) and I was hoping BL (in another computer that finds its internal 
drive just fine but where Puppy cannot find the USB one) would work better 
with it.  Am I missing some step?  I don't have a known good USB optical 
drive to test with (just pcmcia or internal).

I found a USB CD-RW howto.  It assumes you have a usbmgr that 
automatically loads required modules when you plug in something USB, but 
did at least list what they were.

I installed all the required modules for USB storage (and CD-ROM):

cdrom
isofs
ide-cd

usbcore
uhci (or ohci)
scsi_mod
sr_mod
sd_mod
sg

It is supposed to find sr0 (or sr1 if there is another CD-ROM drive, or 
maybe sda1?) but does not.

Probably the drive is failing or finished failing and that is why we have 
it.



Sindi Keesan