(I thought I posted this yesterday, but it seems to have never made it)
Hello,
On a Debian Etch running 2.6.16-2, if I connect an external DVD USB
writer (Samsung SE-S164L), I get this in /var/log/syslog:
kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 12
kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
kernel: scsi10 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
kernel: usb-storage: device found at 12
kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
kernel: Vendor: TSSTcorp Model: CD/DVDW SH-S162L Rev: TS05
kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI
revision: 00
kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2
cdda tray
kernel: sr 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete
Sep 5 22:54:54 localhost udevd-event[2665]: find_free_number: %e is
deprecated, will be removed and is unlikely to work correctly. Don't
use it.
So it is detected properly by hal and udev makes the /dev/sr0 device.
So far so good. However, I do not get a KDE prompt asking what to do
if I put in a DVD or CD with data on it as KDE asks if I put a disc in
the internal IDE optical drive. And it doesn't even mount it. I have
to mount it manually using a mount point. Another point, the drive is
successfully detected by k3b in KDE.