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  • Subject: [BL] USB CD-RW drives - please help
  • Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:39:41 +0000 (UTC)

The CD-ROM HOWTO says they are usb storage devices.

Mine is not recognized by the driver, even with a kernel that has built-in usbcore and usb-uhci (with modules scsi_mod and sd_mod) and ALL the USB storage drivers. Maybe I need newer kernel source code than 2.4?
LaCie Ltd. 24x 10x 40x - tested with the oldest/largest of the drives,
circa 2002. Will try again some day with a 2.6 kernel.

Drive works in an old iMac with OS 10.4.11 (2005?), seen by Puppy Linux as sr0, but will not mount there, and a forum search came up empty. Did not test with other live CDs.

An internet search only got me instructions for using GNOME with these.

Any ideas? We now have four working ones, one even plays DVDs, that would be handy for laptops without burners or with dead internal drives.


Sindi Keesan




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