On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 20:35, Stephen Gran wrote: > 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.
sg0 will only do something if /proc/devices shows sg is there and it's complied in or sg is loaded as a module. Just double checking if that's the problem. --mike
