USB CDRW no go

[Anniedog]

I am trying to get an old freecom usb 1 cdrw to be recognised in FC5 been searching everywhere just more confused can any one step by step me through this I have been playing with fstab but all the reading I have done seems that scsi must be working I have no proc/scsi/scsi. Do not know how to get scsi support working. :confused:

[stevea]

I am trying to get an old freecom usb 1 cdrw to be recognised in FC5 been searching everywhere just more confused can any one step by step me through this I have been playing with fstab but all the reading I have done seems that scsi must be working I have no proc/scsi/scsi. Do not know how to get scsi support working. :confused:

Plug in the drive, and (if you are using Gnome) start the Computer' Icon or point 'nautilus' at "computer:///". The drive should show up there.

If no gnome then check "Applications->System Tools->System Control Center". Select "hardware", then "HARDWARE BROWSER". It should appear.

If not examine the tail end of dmesg and look for an indication of a USB problem. You should see lines like
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
...
If you can't decipher what is happening - post the tail of the dmesg output.

[Anniedog]

Have managed to get icon in computer but records 'unable to mount special device /dev/scd0 does not exist' I have done dmesg check and system has found the usb ports but not the drive attached. No errors reported. Reading all the articles I can it seems to be device scd0 that is the problem which appears to be scsi when I checked as one article said 'proc/scsi/scii ' my system records this as not present.