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RufusD

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Registered: 2010-03-21

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can I tell KDE to treat my USB-to-IDE-connected DVD drive as DVD?

Hi there!
I'm running KDESC 4.6 HAL-less. I've connected a USB-to-IDE converter to the box, which brings up a device notification in KDE upon inserting a DVD. Clicking the notification mounts the DVD and opens dolphin.
My problem, however, is the following: if I tell the device notifier to eject the drive, it unmounts it (like a USB pen-drive) without actually ejecting the disk. Is there any way to achieve this? Maybe by some udev magic? Note: udev sees the USB-to-IDE-converter, not the DVD drive (at least that's what udevadm suggests).

Best wishes,
Rufus

Mr Green

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Re: can I tell KDE to treat my USB-to-IDE-connected DVD drive as DVD?

Would not have thought the fact dvd is connected via usb would make any difference to being able to eject/open dvd tray

Try using eject command from a terminal see if it works

MrG

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pyther

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Re: can I tell KDE to treat my USB-to-IDE-connected DVD drive as DVD?

I'll go out on a limb and say there is nothing that you can do to change this behavior. It is a probably a controller (hardware) limitation.

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