Re: ripping tracks from a audio-cd
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 22:02, Derrik Pates wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 08:41:49PM +0100, florian wrote:
> > but why does it not throw this error when i run the app as root?
>
> Because root has access to everything, I suppose, just like on every
> other traditional Unix-ish system. Look at the permissions on /dev/sg*
> (or /dev/scsi/hostX/busY/targetZ/lunN/generic, if you're using devfs),
> and make sure that the user you're ripping as has permission to to read
> and write to that device. (Ripping with SCSI drives is done by issuing
> raw SCSI commands - you're using IDE-SCSI, so same thing applies.)
ah! yup, nicolai already pointed out that i should have checked the
sg* devices and not just sr0 and scd0..
thanks alot!
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