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.

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?

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