Thus spake Nathan E Norman: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 10:02:00AM -0600, Adam McDaniel wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 09:28:57AM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > From /etc/fstab: > > > /dev/scd0 /cdr iso9660 ro,defaults,users,noauto 0 0 > > > > > > ls -l /dev/scd0 > > > brwxrwxrwx 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Feb 11 2001 /dev/scd0 > > > > > > So - adduser jane cdrom > > > > > > Completes normally, but still no permission to write to drive. I seem > > > to remember that there are different /dev/ entries, one for reading and > > This question's been asked and answered several times in the last few > weeks ... check the archives at lists.debian.org. You need scsi > generic support in your kernel to do cd writing. Use the sg? devices > to access the drive. cdrecord -scanbus can help you figure out what's > going on. > > Your /dev/scd0 permissions are fubar ... should be > > brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Feb 11 2001 /dev/scd0 > > Allowing permissions to "all" makes the cdrom group superfluous. Hello all, OK - so far I've looked into some of the things people have mentioned, which I'll try to detail in some coherent shape:
chmod the permissions on /dev/scd0 back to how they should have been (I
changed them that way to see if I was miising something with groups -
quite obviously, didn't work). Thanks for pointing it out to me, as I
forgot to change them back.
ls -l /dev/sg0:
crw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 21, 0 Jan 29 2001 /dev/sg0
cdrecord -scanbus:
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.19
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) *
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) 'YAMAHA ' 'CRW8424S '1.0d' Removable CD-ROM
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
Which is all as it should be, on the face of it. The fact that the
burner is the only thing on the SCSI bus means that it should be
/dev/sg0, no? Or perhaps I'm still not getting it - I'm kind of tired
and not thinking perhaps as straight as I should. If anyone can clear
this up for me, I'd appreciate it.
Did some list searching, but the only advice I found was directed
towards people using SCSI emulation, rather than straightforward SCSI,
and they didn't seem to be having this problem, or not quite.
Thanks again, everyone,
Steve
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