Matthew Finkel <[email protected]> [11-06-21 01:24]:
> On 06/20/11 13:50, [email protected] wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Attached to a USB port of my PC (linux-2.6.39.1 vanilla) there is a
> > USB to IDE converter, which makes my "old" dvd burner accessible via
> > my SATA only PC.
> > I thought...
> > When I connect everything as described, insert an empty DVD and start
> > k3b, an error message is displayed saying that there is no DVD drive
> > (or better no drive at all).
> >
> > Things change, when I insert an already written DVD first, connect
> > everything, start k3b and replace the dvd with an emplty one.
> > Then this world is one of the best to burn dvds. ;)
> >
> > I took a look into /dev and found, that there is a /deb/usbdev2.5 when
> > the drive is loaded with an empty dvd. This one is replaced by
> > /dev/sr0 (including correct links to /dev/dvd and such) when the drive
> > gets loaded with a already filled dvd.
> >
>
> Can you create a symlink from /dev/usbdev2.5 to /dev/dvd?
>
Yes, I did this before posting here and it does not work.
