USB external DVD writer

[no.to...@gmail.com]

I bought a Samsung external CD/DVD reader/writer, and
discovered that it's just an ols IDE device, inside a box with a
USB interface added. Which is OK since I can use it externally
hot plugged via USB, or I can plug the IDE internal to my
spare box which has no USB facility.

Connected as an IDE, the BIOS detects a ...DVDW....

Q1.
How do I write CDs or DVDs ; should I just buy some blanks
and 'write as if it was a hard-disk' ?

I was expecting/hoping that to be able to just plug in an
old IDE hard-disk to the USB interface, but I can't mount it.
It is detected [differently when powered on or off] & I tried
/dev/sda, sda1, sr0; and get error: 'not a valid block device'.

scd0 shows: 'bad super block bad type ..etc.' error.

I got this:--
] # mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/scd0 -t vfat
] mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
] mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0,
] or too many mounted file systems
] (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
] ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)

Q2. Perhaps next time I boot, dmesg will tell me something,
or is it not possible to use the CDROM's USB <-> IDE interface
to drive a hard-disk ?

== TIA.

[Bill Marcum]

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On 2009-11-25, no.to...@gmail.com <no.to...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Q2. Perhaps next time I boot, dmesg will tell me something,
> or is it not possible to use the CDROM's USB <-> IDE interface
> to drive a hard-disk ?
>

If you want to connect an IDE hard drive to USB, you can buy a device to do
that. I doubt that the CDROM interface will work with a hard drive, but
you can try "fdisk /dev/sda".

[Joe Pfeiffer]

no.to...@gmail.com writes:

> Q1.
> How do I write CDs or DVDs ; should I just buy some blanks
> and 'write as if it was a hard-disk' ?

No, it can't be written to like a hard disk. There are several
applications to do this; cdroast or wodim on the command lie, xcdroast
or gcdmaster or brasero for a gui, I think there's a drag-n-drop style
interface for gnome. Those are starting points; there are a zillion
more.
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[Manuel]

I think that it's too much effort to obtain this. My two cents are to
just put away all that stuff and just buy an hard drive. It's no sense
to use a CDROM interface with an hard drive.

Anyway, if you want to swap data between two machines (you want to use
the USB in one and IDE in another one or something similar, right?)...
just try to upgrade the one without the USB.

So you can use flash drives... really... too much effort on this.

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[Tecknode]

no.to...@gmail.com wrote:
> I bought a Samsung external CD/DVD reader/writer, and
> discovered that it's just an ols IDE device, inside a box with a
> USB interface added. Which is OK since I can use it externally
> hot plugged via USB, or I can plug the IDE internal to my
> spare box which has no USB facility.
>
> Connected as an IDE, the BIOS detects a ...DVDW....
>
> Q1.
> How do I write CDs or DVDs ; should I just buy some blanks
> and 'write as if it was a hard-disk' ?
>

To do this properly you need DVD Writing Software. On my Ubuntu system
it comes with "Brasero Disc Burner."