07-17-2023, 05:46 AM
Hello all, I'm curious as to whether anyone has been able to use an optical drive such as a USB DVD drive with a Pinephone or Pinephone Pro?
My use case is - my preferred way to acquire music is to buy a CD. I would like to set up a Pinephone as a one-stop shop for listening and ripping CDs. I have been able to do this before with a Samsung Galaxy S20 5G under Android.
My Pinephone running Postmarket OS recognizes USBdevices and can also run with a Nexdock. It can read flash drives too. If I use an optical drive, including powered variants, it shows under lsusb but not fdisk -l.
Before I go down a complete rabbit hole trying to get this to work, I wanted to ask if anyone had used this setup with any success? Or if it works on a Pinephone Pro I can upgrade. I'm wondering if the hardware supports it but there's something missing at the Linux kernel level, or need certain drivers.
Happy to post logs etc. but mainly wondering if anyone else has made this setup work previously?
My use case is - my preferred way to acquire music is to buy a CD. I would like to set up a Pinephone as a one-stop shop for listening and ripping CDs. I have been able to do this before with a Samsung Galaxy S20 5G under Android.
My Pinephone running Postmarket OS recognizes USBdevices and can also run with a Nexdock. It can read flash drives too. If I use an optical drive, including powered variants, it shows under lsusb but not fdisk -l.
Before I go down a complete rabbit hole trying to get this to work, I wanted to ask if anyone had used this setup with any success? Or if it works on a Pinephone Pro I can upgrade. I'm wondering if the hardware supports it but there's something missing at the Linux kernel level, or need certain drivers.
Happy to post logs etc. but mainly wondering if anyone else has made this setup work previously?
