How to get K3b to find optical drive? SOLVED

[joe at actionline.com]

Thanks to all.  It is working now.
Actually, I did not change anything,
but when I tried it again today,
it worked fine.

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> You did not say what distro or release you are running so some answers
> people supply may not be right for your system.  That said, see below:
>
> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:49 PM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
>
>> I have an external dvd burner connected to my computer,
>> but when I try to run K3b, the following message appears:
>>
>> > No optical drive found.
>> > K3b did not find any optical device in your system.
>> > Solution: Make sure HAL daemon is running, it is used
>> > by K3b for finding devices.
>>
>> How can I determine if the HAL daemon is running?
>> Or if it is not, what do I need to do to make sure that
>> it always does run?
>>
>
> On my Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 systems, I do not see a hal daemon running,
> but plugging in an external USB CD/DVD drive is visible and usable (I am
> not set to use k3b).  That makes me wonder if hal has been replaced.
>
> Are you plugging in the external burner BEFORE starting k3b?  Sometimes a
> program queries for available devices only on program start.  If you start
> k3b first, exit and only start it AFTER plugging in the device.  Also, try
> having some media in the drive before starting k3b.
>
> Is it only k3b that does not see the external drive.  If the who system
> does not see it, the problem is more likely the external drive or not
> having a valid driver for it.  You might try an lsusb to see if it is even
> visible to Linux.  I get "Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0411:01dc BUFFALO INC.
> (formerly MelCo., Inc.)".
>
> You could also do an lshw -short before plugging it in and another after
> to
> see if another line was listed such as "/2             scsi7   storage".
>
> If you don't, try some other external USB device as a test.
>
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