Re: CD-Burning Problem

[Jason Martens <me@jasonmartens.com>]

Holger Henke wrote:

> Hi Jason,
>
> for burning cd-roms on non-scsi systems you have to emulate scsi-devices.
>  
Sorry, forgot to mention that I'm running 2.6.8.  I'm pretty sure that 
it isn't necessary to emulate scsi in the 2.6 series kernels.

Jason

> modprobe sg
> modprobe ide-scsi
>
> As Kernel-Parameter "hdx=ide-scsi"
> Testing with "cdrecord --scanbus".
>
> Sorry for my baaaaad english...
>
> Holger
>
>
> Am Montag, 18. Oktober 2004 20:03 schrieb Jason Martens:
>  
>
> > Hey all,
> >   I have a laptop with a CD-RW/DVD drive in it.  When I run k3b as a
> > regular user, it detects the drive incorrectly as a reader, but it won't
> > let me burn with the drive.  If I run k3b as root, it correctly detects
> > the drive as a CD-RW drive, and I am able to burn stuff without a
> > problem.  I would rather not become root to burn CDs.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure that all of the permissions are correct on the drive
> > itself.
> >
> > martensjason:/home/jason# ll /dev/hdc
> > brw-rw-rw-  1 root cdrom 22, 0 Mar 14  2002 /dev/hdc
> > martensjason:/home/jason# groups jason
> > jason : jason disk dialout cdrom floppy audio burning
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Jason
> >    
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