[Hardware] How to moun my External DVD Writer on USB

[vesta]

I"d like to mount my dvd writer on USB how ca I do that?

lsmod returns :
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 0402:5621 ALi Corp.
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0ea0:2168 Ours Technology, Inc. Transcend JetFlash 2.0
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0b05:6206 ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

The devise looks to be ALi Corp.

cdrecord --scandevice

Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r6
cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.33
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
scsibus5:
5,0,0 500) 'PIONEER ' 'DVD-RW DVR-107D' '1.18' Removable CD-ROM
5,1,0 501) *
5,2,0 502) *
5,3,0 503) *
5,4,0 504) *
5,5,0 505) *
5,6,0 506) *
5,7,0 507) *

[boogerman]

It looks like it is already detected and has a device created for it, so I would do this mount /dev/sdx1 /mnt/cdrom

Normaly the device would be sda1, but if you have other usb devices or sata drives, it may sdb,c,d and so on. I think that will get you going.

By the way, when checking for a usb device I would run lsusb or dmesg, not lsmod. lsmod only shows loaded kernel modules, which would probably not be very helpful in this case. Let me know if that works.

--edit

I stand corrected, had forgotten. Ignore me and pay attention to the fellow that posted below. Sorry about that.

[cyrillic]

No, cdrom devices show up as /dev/sr0 , /dev/sr1 , etc. The /dev/sda devices are just for harddrives, memory sticks, and other disk type devices.

Take a look at dmesg after plugging in your cdrom, and you should see what name the kernel assigned it.