--- Black wrote: As root:

# chmod 777 /dev/hdc # ls -l /dev/hdc

[should look something like this] brwxrwxrwx 1 tim disk 22, 0 2004-12-03 18:45 /dev/hdc

Could change permissions as user - but did it as root as well - result is as you say above. As an ordinary user i still cannot write to /media/dvdram. Tim