cbagger01
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Posted: Mar. 23 2004,03:26 |
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It depends on the USB CD-RW device. If the device supports the USB Mass Storage standard protocol, then it is supported in Linux.
Sometimes even if it does not support the standard protocol, you can use it in Linux if someone has written a driver specifically for the device.
For example, I use a Micro Solutions Backpack CD recorder with the Linux firmware patch that was made by the company. It works fine in my distribution of choice (Peanut Linux). I would expect that it would also work fine in DSL except I would have to download and install the drivers every time I used the LiveCD.
Another way to mount/unmount a drive is to use Emelfm file manager.
Go to the /mount directory and right-click on the directory (in the right side window) that you wish to mount. Then choose "Mount" from the context menu. Then double-click on the directory again and you will see the contents of the drive.
For floppy or additional CDROM/CDRW you may need to go to /mount/auto, because for example the /mount/floppy isn't a real directory mountpoint and is actually a simlink pointing to /mount/auto/floppy.
Good Luck.
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