Hi John,
John Sloan wrote:
john.sloan@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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.
As requested, I have checked "/var/log/messages" and here are the lines added when the USB CD-ROM drive was plugged in.:
Mar 25 11:20:45 LinuxForensics kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 Mar 25 11:20:47 LinuxForensics kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized Mar 25 11:20:47 LinuxForensics kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Mar 25 11:20:47 LinuxForensics kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
And here is the diff between the dmesg output before and after the CD was plugged in:
261,269d260 < usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 < SCSI subsystem initialized < Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... < scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices < usb 1-1: reset full speed USB device using address 2 < scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 < USB Mass Storage device found at 2 < usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage < USB Mass Storage support registered.
Note: I just installed Fedora Core 3 by booting from this USB CD-ROM and then getting the packages from an FTP server, so I know this CD-ROM drive is working OK.
Anyone got any ideas?
start your box w/ the drive attached, look at /etc/fstab and see if there is a pointer to your drive, remove the managed from the line, insert a cd and try mounting it...
Alex
