Re: IDE to USB question

[Ryan <ryanag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This seems very similar to my problem with the samera card reader being 
auto-detected in FC 3, not in FC 4.

Stefan Held wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 21.06.2005, 10:56 -0500 schrieb Winston S. Percybrooks
> B.:
>
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I've been a user of Fedora for almost a year and a half. Currently my
> > laptop runs FC2 with a custom 2.6.11 kernel. Recently I try an IDE to
> > USB case with a 80GB HDD and it works without problems, I could mount
> > the partitions on the disk through /dev/sda*. Now I'm trying the same
> > case but with a brand new LG DVD writer and I'm having some troubles. I
> > can use the drive to burn CDs and DVDs (using cdrecord dev=0,0,0 ...)
> > but I cannot use the drive to read any disk because mount says that none
> > /dev/sd* device is valid. So, can any of you help me? I really need to
> > know how to mount that "hidden" drive. Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>
> What does /var/log/messages tell you about the device?