Gregor Waluga wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I don't know what to do, so I try it here with the hope to get help. > I got an external USB-CD-drive Freecom Traveller connected to my notebook and > everything worked fine until my little cousin came and read MP3s from a CD... > in the next moment I saw Linux booting. He made a hadware reset without > unmounting the CD-ROM. > > Since then I can neither mount this drive nor Eject the CD by pressing on the > Eject-button it is completely without control though LEDs are on. > The mechanical Eject-button doesn't interest me at this time. > I have even tried to test this drive under Windoze and another PC, but there's > the same problem. > I interrupted the current and removed the battery, but this didn't help. > Th fact is that the drive seems to be OK for there is a LED on the cable which > lights up by transfer. When the device is connected at bootup, the LED > flashes when the "hardware scan on boot" is executed. > I tried to use the SuSE bootdisks with modules to manually connect to the > drive. The LED flashes only. It seems to be blocked... > So my question to you, how I will be able to connect to the device? It only > wasn't unmounted... so I think it is a kind of software-block? > I hope you can give me some hints, because I haven't found something yet. I > googled, I posted in newgroups, but there was no answer...
I may be that the device is broken as others have suggested. However I ( being a bit dumb ) am not sure what you actually did when you tried it on another PC. You say you think it is a software problem but if that was it then, provided you have software on the windows PC which should access the device ( Windows Explorer springs to mind :-) ) you should see it if it isn't broken. As you say your young cousin had been using it there are other things he could have done as well as hard booting the PC. Might he have damaged the usb lead? When you say " I interrupted the current and removed the battery " which device did you remove current from and which battery did you remove, from the Notebook? If it is then how long did you leave the battery disconnected? If it was only a few seconds then that may not have been enough time try 1 minute and see if that helps. hope this helps, norm > http://www.nelliott.co.uk registered Linux user 277766 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
