Adding a cd rom device to My computer

[fookongmick]

I have a USB cd writer plugged into my SUSE linux. How do I get it to appear in My computer. It has already been detected by the OS.

[markwolfe Veteran]

To have it appear in "My Computer", you need to run Windows.

If you want to access it in Linux, I think SUSE's KDE environment should have auto-mounted it. If not, you might have to look through your dmesg to see where it is put. I think it would be detected as a /dev/sda or /sdb or some such letter. Perhaps it will also be assigned to /dev/cdrom or some such.

You say it was detected. How was it assigned? Can you access it at all?

[Codegen]

Should be something like this

usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2

SCSI subsystem initialized

Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...

scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices

Vendor: Sunplus Model: Icatch SPCA533 Rev: 1.00

Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02

USB Mass Storage device found at 2

usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage

USB Mass Storage support registered.

SCSI device sda: 65536 512-byte hdwr sectors (34 MB)

sda: Write Protect is off

sda: Mode Sense: 20 00 00 00

sda: assuming drive cache: write through

/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1

Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0