Forum:Cant connect an external DVDRom

I've connected an exter DVDRom to my SPP by USB, but it doesnt recognize the unit. The DVDRom is self powered and runs ok in my PC. I see that the DVDRom is not mounted, how can i get mounted it manually? Or until the DVDRom is self powered, i have to try with a powered usb hub. Sorry for my english and thanks a lot for this wiki.
 * Does it appear as a device on the ScreenPlay at all? By that, I mean if you go to /dev do you see any entry for the DVD Rom?  I'm not sure what it would show up as.  It's been a while since I last did any mounting/unmounting with the screenplay, but I think the main drive partitions show up as /dev/hda0, /dev/hda1, etc. and the usb drives have been showing up as /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1.  See what else in the /dev list shows up after a couple of minutes when you plug in the DVD Rom drive.
 * I suspect you're wanting to play movie DVDs in the drive, which would be wonderful but I sincerely doubt it would work with any CSS protected movies (most commercially available DVDs). Any unprotected DVDs would probably work. You would need to mount them in a subdirectory off of the /tmp/usbmounts directory.  I believe you would need to use the -t ISO9660 modifier on the mount command, but it may be smart enough to do it by itself.
 * I don't know what else to tell you. It would take me a bit of experimenting and research to get the answer, and I just don't have an external DVD to try that out with.  --JCoug 15:29, September 16, 2009 (UTC)