--- Black wrote: What does "ls -l /dev/dvdram" look like? Do you need read/write

permissions for group and other as well?

linux:/etc # ls -l /dev/dvdram lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2005-03-19 06:41 /dev/dvdram -> hdc I am the only user on the system - so read/write permissions for all users is ok. Tim