Re: Dicota PC-Link Z14438Z

[Douglas Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 04:10:59AM -0800, Gerard H. Pille wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've just gotten this USB host-to-host device for my new-year, and I
> wonder if it can be used with Linux.
> 
> When connected, the device is recognised as a cdrom:
 
> scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM            OTi      EasyCopy-Net     1.30 PQ: 0
> ANSI: 2
> sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 126x/126x writer cd/rw xa/form2 tray
> 
> 
> But when I mount it, it stays read-only, even after a  "mount -o
> remount,rw".
> 

Hello Gerard,

I've never hear of such a device, but here's my 2c:

Since it looks like a CDROM, why would you be able to mount it rw?  Try
doing that with a regular CDROM.  You may be able to write to it using a
CDROM burning program.

Doug.