From my limited knowledge as well, the lwrx business is the permissions for that drive. I think that that string means you have full permissions.
Sorry if I'm wrong lol James On 27 May 2009, at 20:04, norman <nor...@littletank.org> wrote: > >>>> what happens if you try to PLAY a DVD? >>> >>> It plays, no problem. >> >> Surely then the device must exist? > > On the face of it you must be correct. I have been reading to find a > solution and opened a terminal and tried ls -l /dev/dvd. There was no > response so I tried with /dev/dvd1 with the following result:- > > nor...@gruber:~$ ls -l /dev/dvd1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-05-25 16:31 /dev/dvd1 -> scd0 > nor...@gruber:~$ > > Is this any help to sorting things out. I use the terminal from time > to > time but I am never sure what things mean but I am learning. > > Norman > > > > > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/