Kenneth Payne wrote:
FX -
Thanks for your help.
Use hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi in /boot/grub/menu.lst, it will save a lot of trouble.
A question first : is this likely to break anything? For example, will I still be able to play dvd movies from /dev/hdd? Will it make them jerky because hdparm will be ignored? And if root can burn cds on the current setup, why can't kmp?
You will have to change the symlinks /dev/dvd and /dev/cdrom and have them point to /dev/sr1.
What is the result of cdrecord -scanbus run as normal user?
This is interesting. What do you make of this -
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
- Ken
from man cdrecord: (but substitute "disk" for "cdburners") If you don't want to allow users to become root on your system, cdrecord may safely be installed suid root. This allows all users or a group of users with no root privi? leges to use cdrecord. Cdrecord in this case checks, if the real user would have been able to read the specified files. To give all user access to use cdrecord, enter: chown root /usr/local/bin/cdrecord chmod 4711 /usr/local/bin/cdrecord To give a restricted group of users access to cdrecord enter: chown root /usr/local/bin/cdrecord chgrp cdburners /usr/local/bin/cdrecord chmod 4710 /usr/local/bin/cdrecord and add a group cdburners on your system. Hope this helps FX -- ______________________ Courtesy of SuSE Linux http://www.nibz.org