How do I get a USB CD-ROM working in Fedora Core 3?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Mar 22 13:26:48 UTC 2005


john.sloan at rogers.com 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.




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