Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm not sure if this counts, but: I have successfully used an external
> DVD drive, connected to my computer with a USB cable.  When I do that,
> it is accessible via both /dev/sr0 and /dev/cdrom, and GNOME (or
> something else I don't know about) automatically sees it and mounts it
> when I insert a DVD containing files.

If you see /dev/sr0, then I guess it counts.  Thanks for reporting.

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Pierre Neidhardt
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