usb dvd writer driver needed

[Tapas Mishra]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
>> On 11 October 2010 10:34, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>  Bus 002 Device 006: ID 13fd:1640 Initio Corporation
>>> does any one have any idea of what driver is required for the above
>>> device that is the USB DVD writer.
>>>
>>
>> Have you tried using it as a burner? What happened?
>>
>> What does this command return:-
>>
>> wodim -scanbus
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Al.
>>
> scsibus1:
>        1,0,0   100) 'PLDS    ' 'DVD+-RW DS-8A3S ' 'HD13' Removable CD-ROM
>        1,1,0   101) *
>        1,2,0   102) *
>        1,3,0   103) *
>        1,4,0   104) *
>        1,5,0   105) *
>        1,6,0   106) *
>        1,7,0   107) *
> scsibus9:
>        9,0,0   900) 'TS8XDVDR' 'Transcend       ' '1.66' CD-ROM
>        9,1,0   901) *
>        9,2,0   902) *
>        9,3,0   903) *
>        9,4,0   904) *
>        9,5,0   905) *
>        9,6,0   906) *
>        9,7,0   907) *
>
> The transcend is the one I want to use.

Also when I am trying to install k3b I get following error
sudo apt-get install k3b
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  k3b: Depends: kdebase-runtime (>= 4:4.4.2) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: kdelibs5 (>= 4:4.4.2) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: libk3b6 (= 1.91.0~rc2-0ubuntu3) but it is not going to
be installed
       Depends: libkcddb4 (>= 4:4.2.96) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: libqt4-dbus (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: libqt4-network (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: libqt4-qt3support (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not going to
be installed
       Depends: libqt4-svg (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: libqt4-webkit (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not going to be installed
       Depends: libqt4-xml (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages