USB CD-RW

[seanmoul]

I'm messing around with my usb cd-rw trying to get it to work under RedHat 7.1. Here's the problem:

When I hook up the CD-RW everything seems hunky-dory, but . . . when I do $cat /proc/scsi/scsi it tells me that no device is attached. When I cat /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0/0 it gives me info to suggest that the computer recognizes the CD-RW. Any idea how I can get the scsi system to recognize my CD-RW? I believe I have all the modules loaded properly, i.e., usb-storage, scsi-mod, usb-ohci, usbcore, sg and sr_mod.

[IeraseU]

if you have cdrecord installed, did you try to enter the following command?:

cdrecord -scanbus

that should tell you if the drive is recognized as a scsi device or not. I have RH7.1, and when I boot with the drive powered ON, Linux will not recognize it......HOWEVER, if I boot with the drive OFF, and then turn it on after i have booted, the drive will be recognized, scsi and all.

[seanmoul]

I have tried "cdrecord -scanbus." It returns ". . . Cannot open SCSI driver . . ." I've also tried booting and then plugging in the CD-RW. When I cat /proc/scsi/scsi it still says "Atached devices: none." But when I cat /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0/0 it says the device is attached.