I have googled and googled, and I just can't seem to get this to work. I have a Thinkpad X23 with an external CD-ROM drive that connects via USB. No matter what I do, it is not recognised in FC3. There is no entry in /dev and I can't figure out what the problem is. There are no /dev/scd* devices.
Anyone got any ideas??
Try booting without the device connected. Log in, then connect the drive. Wait for a few seconds, then look at the end of the file /var/log/messages to see what kernel messages appeared when the drive was connected. We'll make sure first that the kernel recognises the drive.
Paul.
