[solved] optical drive not recognized by xfburn

[Member grenouille]

My external USB cd/dvd drive (a massive LG super multi) is not recognized by xfburn on my 2006 Dell Optiplex 740 Athlon computer even if Antix 17.1 detected the drive.

$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    1 28,7G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    1 26,6G  0 part /
└─sda2   8:2    1    2G  0 part [SWAP]
sr0     11:0    1 1024M  0 rom  
sr1     11:1    1 1024M  0 rom  

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 019: ID 152e:1640 LG (HLDS)                 ← this is the one
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0781:5581 SanDisk Corp. Ultra
Bus 001 Device 016: ...

I found the solution at :
https://askubuntu.com/questions/232026/external-dvd-writer-not-detected-in-xfburn

The following command gave me the detail of my external optical drive :

$ udevadm info --name=/dev/sr1
P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.1/usb1/1-8/1-8:1.0/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0/block/sr1
N: sr1
S: disk/by-id/usb-HLDS_Inc_SuperMulti_RW_00101016400055415
S: disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:0b.1-usb-0:8:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
E: DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-HLDS_Inc_SuperMulti_RW_00101016400055415 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:0b.1-usb-0:8:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
E: DEVNAME=/dev/sr1
E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.1/usb1/1-8/1-8:1.0/host5/target5:0:0/5:0:0:0/block/sr1
E: DEVTYPE=disk
E: ID_BUS=usb
E: ID_CDROM=1
E: ID_CDROM_CD=1
E: ID_CDROM_CD_R=1
E: ID_CDROM_CD_RW=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_PLUS_R=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_PLUS_RW=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_PLUS_R_DL=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_R=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_RAM=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_RW=1
E: ID_CDROM_MRW=1
E: ID_CDROM_MRW_W=1
E: ID_FOR_SEAT=block-pci-0000_00_0b_1-usb-0_8_1_0-scsi-0_0_0_0
E: ID_MODEL=SuperMulti_RW
E: ID_MODEL_ENC=SuperMulti\x20RW\x20\x20\x20
E: ID_MODEL_ID=1640
E: ID_PATH=pci-0000:00:0b.1-usb-0:8:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
E: ID_PATH_TAG=pci-0000_00_0b_1-usb-0_8_1_0-scsi-0_0_0_0
E: ID_REVISION=0159
E: ID_SERIAL=HLDS_Inc_SuperMulti_RW_00101016400055415
E: ID_SERIAL_SHORT=00101016400055415
<strong>E: ID_TYPE=generic</strong>
E: ID_USB_DRIVER=usb-storage
E: ID_USB_INTERFACES=:080550:
E: ID_USB_INTERFACE_NUM=00
E: ID_VENDOR=HLDS_Inc
E: ID_VENDOR_ENC=HLDS\x20Inc
E: ID_VENDOR_ID=152e
E: MAJOR=11
E: MINOR=1
E: SUBSYSTEM=block
E: SYSTEMD_MOUNT_DEVICE_BOUND=1
E: SYSTEMD_READY=0
E: TAGS=:seat:uaccess:udev-acl:
E: USEC_INITIALIZED=3221998895

The problem comes from the ID_TYPE=generic as xfburn requires an ID_TYPE=cd.
(In the Ubuntu post the ID_TYPE was weirder : ‘floppy’). So with the command :
$ sudo geany
I edited /etc/udev/90-usb-semiauto.rules (since /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules doesn’t exist in Antix 17.1) and followed the rest of the instructions of the post:

2. add a new line SUBSYSTEM==”block”, ENV{ID_CDROM}==”?*”, ENV{ID_SERIAL}==”xxxxxxx”, ENV{ID_TYPE}=”cd”, ENV{GENERATED}=”1″
3. replace “xxxxxxx” with the serial number of your device from the above lines
4. save and restart xfburn, and also unplug and replug the device.

And it works!

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