[Discuss] ​ Fedora 28 Doesn't See External DVD Drive on USB Port

[vsharris at gmail.com (Steve Harris)]

FWIW, on my system the USB CD player is not "seen" until I put a disc in
the drive.

- Steve


On Sun, Dec 30, 2018 at 11:02 PM <discuss-request at blu.org> wrote:

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> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 18:44:47 -0500
> From: Nancy Allison <nancythewriter7 at gmail.com>
> To: "Anderson, Charles R" <cra at wpi.edu>
> Cc: "discuss at blu.org" <discuss at blu.org>
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Fedora 28 Doesn't See External DVD Drive on USB
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> Hello, all.
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> Charles, Fedora 28 was installed fresh; Ubuntu had been on the system
> previously.
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> I ran the lsusb command first before connecting the DVD drive and again
> after. The list of devices did not change.
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> Here is the output of the two commands:
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> [theauthor at new-host-2 ~]$ lsusb
> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8001 Intel Corp.
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 13d3:5652 IMC Networks
> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:07dc Intel Corp.
> Bus 002 Device 006: ID 04f9:0062 Brother Industries, Ltd
> Bus 002 Device 064: ID 046d:c52b Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver
> Bus 002 Device 063: ID 1a40:0101 Terminus Technology Inc. Hub
> Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0409:0058 NEC Corp. HighSpeed Hub
> Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0424:2507 Standard Microsystems Corp. hub
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> [theauthor at new-host-2 ~]$ dmesg | grep sd
> [    1.585719] ahci 0000:00:1f.2: flags: 64bit ncq pm led clo only pio slum
> part deso sadm sds apst
> [    1.923206] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
> [    1.923302] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1465149168 512-byte logical blocks: (750
> GB/699 GiB)
> [    1.923341] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
> [    1.923346] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
> [    1.923462] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled,
> doesn't support DPO or FUA
> [    2.035151]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
> [    2.035429] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
> [   27.766377] EXT4-fs (sda2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> Opts: (null)
> [19434.731622] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
> [19434.903269] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Stopping disk
> [19435.577907] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Starting disk
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