> > Apparently it was a permissions problem with /dev/sg0. > Not sure what that device is used for, because my cd is on /dev/scd0, but > after I fixed permissions, grip worked just fine.
i'm pretty sure /dev/sg* are the generic scsi devices. if your cd writer is ide/atapi, then you're probably using the sg (scsi generic) driver along with ide-scsi and scsi_mod to emulate your ide/atapi drive as a scsi drive so cdrecord can use it, in which case you do need read/write access to /dev/sg* in addition to /dev/scd* (scsi cdrom). i don't know the specifics of this, but i believe there's some funky magic going on behind the scenes where /dev/scd* uses /dev/sg* as the scsi driver for a "virtual" scsi card to access the cdrom, and you use ide-scsi to emulate the ide drive as a scsi drive so that it can be accessed via the generic scsi driver. do `cdrecord -scanbus` then run `lsmod` and you should see a bunch of scsi-related modules (if you didn't compile them into the kernel). /ben -- |_ |_ | _ _ |_ PGP public key: http://www.wilykit.com/wilykit.key |_) . |_)|(_|(_ |\ "Never rub another man's rhubarb." -- Joker
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