IDE to USB question

[Ryan]

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.:
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>>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.
>>
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> What does /var/log/messages tell you about the device?
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