Help with FC3 + LG DVD DL Burner in USB enclosure

[fwelland]

LG GSA-4163B DVD "multi' DVD-DL burner
In a Rosewil RX50 USB2.0 enclosure.
FC3 ( 2.6.9-Fred) on Dell Latitued D600

cdrecord and x-cdroast will not scan/see the drive???

Linux/FC3 sees it ok - automount a CD. DMESG says (when I plug it in and 'modprobe usb-storage' ):

usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using address 2
SCSI subsystem initialized
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: HL-DT-ST Model: DVDRAM GSA-4163B Rev: A101
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISOFS: changing to secondary root

hwbrowser sees the drive and lshw sees it and prints out all sorts of stuf about it (oh and works under WinXP too).

How do I make cdrecord/xcdroast see it?

[shoekstra]

What's the output of cdrecord --scanbus?

[fwelland]

cdrecord -scanbus doesn't even record/see the device...

It does see my internal CD/DVD drive. But nothing about external drive.

[shoekstra]

what modules are loaded?

[shoekstra]

I plugged my usb dvd writer today and it was detected right away and created a new folder in /media

[fwelland]

lsmod:
Module Size Used by
sr_mod 17700 0
usb_storage 61896 0
scsi_mod 119248 2 sr_mod,usb_storage
ipw2200 159784 0
ieee80211 37060 1 ipw2200
ieee80211_crypt 7044 2 ipw2200,ieee80211
fglrx 226688 9
parport_pc 25024 1
lp 11884 0
parport 42312 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 24452 0
sunrpc 161252 1
ds 17284 8
nls_utf8 2304 1
ntfs 132624 1
dm_mod 55316 0
button 6928 0
battery 8964 0
ac 5124 0
md5 4352 1
ipv6 233664 8
yenta_socket 19072 1
pcmcia_core 60488 2 ds,yenta_socket
uhci_hcd 31768 0
ehci_hcd 31876 0
snd_intel8x0 32348 2
snd_ac97_codec 67320 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 48424 0
snd_mixer_oss 18048 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 93064 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 30340 1 snd_pcm
snd 56036 8 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_ oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 10336 2 snd
snd_page_alloc 10120 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
tg3 85892 0
ext3 116744 3
jbd 74904 1 ext3
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[fwelland]

mine too is recognized as CD/DVD reader. The issue is that I can't burn to it - because cdrecord doesn't see it.

[shoekstra]

is there an entry in the /dev/ marked scd0?

try cdrecord -v dev=/dev/scd0 speed=8 -data FC3-disk1.iso

or what ever iso you have

[fwelland]

Interesting - I have been farking around with this for a couple of weeks on and off - and never tried this - i guess I am mildly red - faced at the moment....

I put in blank media (cd-r) in the LG drive - and now stuff *look* like it will work more like I am used to....I have been relying on 'cdrecord -scanbus' to acknowledge the drive and it simply won't. Oddly (or not), cdrecord -scanbus sees my other (built in CD-RW/DVD-ROM) fine - reguardless of presence or type of media (blank, cd, dvd).

I was expecting the same behaviour of the LG drive - it doesn't.

Your suggestion about 'dev=/dev/scd0' (which I thought I had tried before) led me to try some stuff:

cdrecord -prcap -dev=/dev/scd0 (no disc printed stuff about FAKE ADAPTEC??? but no errors)

on a whim I inserted blank CD-R and the FC3 CD/DVD Creator thing came up - good sign.

cdrecord -prcap -dev=/dev/scd0 then prints out rather detailed info - IDs the drive and most of its capabilities (did not list write DVD+R DL - but maybe cdrecord doesn't know about this yet).

Now to test burn...

[shoekstra]

sound's good so far