On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Vincent Foley wrote: > Hi, > > I have a ide-scsi CDROM on a GNU/Linux system. But I have a little problem > and > I was hoping that maybe you could help me with it. > > See, I cannot rip a CD if I'm not root. I could when my cdrom wasn't > ide-scsi. > Now, I get the following error message: > > [Shell] > > $ cdparanoia 1cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001) > (C) 2001 Monty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Xiphophorus > > Report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ > > > /dev/cdrom exists but isn't accessible. By default, > cdparanoia stops searching for an accessible drive here. > Consider using -sv to force a more complete autosense > of the machine. > > More information about /dev/cdrom: > Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom... > Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface > /dev/scd0 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM. > Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface > No generic SCSI device found to match CDROM device /dev/scd0
I think the generic SCSI devices are /dev/sg0, /deb/sg1, etc. It sounds like cdparanoia may be needing one of those. You might try checking to be sure they exist and are accessible to you/your group. Britton > [/Shell] > > So I thought about check the permissions related to /dev/cdrom and /dev/scd0 > and > what group my user was in: > > [Shell] > > $ groups > vince cdrom sudo audio dip log www > $ ls -l /dev/cdrom /dev/scd0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root cdrom 4 Jun 6 13:20 /dev/cdrom -> scd0 > brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Jun 1 15:34 /dev/scd0 > > [/Shell] > > > I have no idea on what I could do. Please help me > > > > Regards, Vince
