[sllug-members]: Newbie Question

[Andrew Johnson]

Hmm... never done that on SuSE before.  Try this: unplug your drive, run
'tail -f /var/log/messages' (you may need to be root) then plug it back in.
That will let you know if your drive is being detected at all, and may tell
you which device it is.  Ctrl-C will stop the command.

Next, unplug your drive, run 'ls /dev/sr* /dev/scd* /dev/usb*', then plug it
in, wait 10 seconds or so, and run the same command again.  Anything that
appears in the second command that wasn't there in the first is probably the
drive.  Try mounting that device somewhere and see if you can read the files
on the disc there.


On 7/28/06, Adam Barrett <dragen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Apologies - let me give more detail.
>
> I am trying to connect a USB external DVD-RW (I just realized its DVD) to
> my Linux box. I am running SuSE 10.0.
>
> To my understanding the drive should be autodetected and added to my
> /media
>
> However, it is not, and I am not sure how to go about mounting it, I can't
> seem to find any documentation (in english) that explains where the device
> is to be found, and how to make it readable.
>
> I am new to using Linux, this is my first major attempt.
>
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