IDE to USB question

[Stefan Held]

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?


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