Other Help Topics :: Flaky recognition of external CD burner

Thanks everyone for your help with CDW. I have been able to get it to work at least sometimes.

However, I'm finding that my computer's recognition of the external CD burner (connected to a USB port through a USB hub) is flaky. Sometimes, (as shown by "cdrecord -scanbus"), it's on scsibus 2,0,0; sometimes 1,0,0; sometimes 0,0,0; and sometimes not recognized AT ALL. When my computer stops recognizing my external CD burner, I'm able to remedy things by rebooting, but burning CDs is STILL hit-or-miss.

Why exactly does this keep changing? How can I get the external CD burner to stay on the same scsibus? And what causes the CD burner to drop out of the scsibus altogether sometimes?

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