[vox-tech] USB-DVD burner

[Jonathan Stickel]

Richard Harke wrote:
> My wife has an external USB DVD reader/writer which I
> thought I'd try. I get some lines in dmesg when I power it up
> but I can't find it with dvdrecord -scanbus
> I have an ATAPI CD burner which works fine. I suspect that its
> presence may interfere with the USB model. I've googled until
> I'm google-eyed. I found one persons remark that he had it
> working fine now, the hard part was determining the /dev
> to use. He didn't say what worked, however.
> 

I've had a USB dvdrw drive working, but it was awhile ago.  I've been 
using K3b for cd/dvd burning for so long that I don't know how to do 
command line troubleshooting of optical drives anymore.  Most everything 
"just works" with K3b.

Jonathan