Re: Dicota PC-Link Z14438Z

["Gerard H. Pille" <ghpille@hotmail.com>]

Douglas Tutty schreef:

> 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.
>
>

I'd say that's a very good idea, Doug, since I had it myself, if it
wasn't for the fact that k3b tells me it is a read-only device.

# cdrecord -scanbus
scsibus0:
        0,0,0     0) 'OTi     ' 'EasyCopy-Net    ' '1.30' Removable
CD-ROM