[wellylug] CD Burner

Andrew Thompson andy at fud.org.nz
Sat Dec 28 12:48:43 NZDT 2002


shroeder wrote:

>On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 08:07, Wood Brent wrote:
>  
>
>Interesting...
>
>I did an 'update' of Mandrake 9.0 and it now recognises hdc as a cdrw.
>(I can even get eroaster to recognise it) However, I now do not appear
>to have access to the cdrom as a normal user, even though when I do:
>
>#ls -l /mnt/cdrom
>drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec 27 22:28 cdrom/
>
>This is exactly the same as the result for the floppy and I can access
>this OK??
>
>Any ideas
>
>Thanks
>
>
>  
>

You need to check the permissions of the device node, make it 666 I 
think.  The device will be something like /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, check your 
fstab to be sure.

Andy




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