What kernel are you using? Under 2.6, this should work just fine. Under 2.4, it still has problems.
The problem is actually in the way the SCSI CD-ROM driver detects read-only vs. writeable. This was fixed in 2.6, but I don't think it ever made it back into 2.4 Matt On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 03:22:00PM -0500, C. Mensdall wrote: > Hallo, > > after the disaster with genesys-chipset i got my new USB-2.0 external case > with Cypress-Chipset. This works fine on burning CD/DVD with my Kernel > 2.4.25 and my LG 4081-Multiburner. > > But now there is another problem: > i can't write to DVD-RAM > > Mounting allways gives "read-only block device" or "block device is write- > protected, mounting read-only". Also remount with -o rw doesnt work. But a > df -H gives: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > dev/scd2 4.6G 2.4G 2.3G 51% /mnt/dvdram/ > > so it seems, as if the device is recognized as a writable media. > > I can only use device /dev/scd2 which is a symlink (i use devfs) to /dev/ > scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/cd for the usb-device. There is no /dev/sdc > (sda and sdb are real SCSI-harddisks), but if i put in my usb-memory-stick > i get a device sdc for this one. > > With the genesys-chipset i could mount dvd-ram writable without problems. > > Can somebody help me? > > Claudio > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel -- Matthew Dharm Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver I see you've been reading alt.sex.chubby.sheep voraciously. -- Tanya User Friendly, 11/24/97
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