External USB Blu-Ray drives under Linux?

[phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

Thanks, Duncan, that sounds hopeful. I'll give it a shot.

Peter

> I have a generic adapter (USB to 2.5" IDE, 3'5" IDE, and SATA) that works
> fine on hard drives and DVD burners. Brasero and k3b work fine with that,
> and say that they work with Blu-Ray as  well. I do not yet have a blu-ray
> burner, but I plan to get one when media costs come down.
> (generic USB/IDE/SATA adapters are available on Ebay).
>
> Duncan
>
>> Folks -
>>
>> I've outgrown by DVD storage, so I'm considering upgrading to an
>> external
>> USB connected Blu-Ray burner. Using an external USB-connected hard drive
>> works great on this Suse Linux box, so I'm hoping there is a similar
>> solution for Blu-Ray.
>>
>> Any comments on the feasibility of this? Does it require special
>> software
>> or can you simply mount the drive and copy to it?
>>
>> Any advice would be appreciated. Here's the description of this system:
>>
>> cat /etc/issue
>> Welcome to openSUSE 10.3 (i586) - Kernel \r (\l).
>>
>> cat /proc/version
>> Linux version 2.6.22.19-0.4-default (geeko at buildhost) (gcc version 4.2.1
>> (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP 2009-08-14 02:09:16 +0200
>>
>> Peter
>>
>>
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