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Re: cdrecord -scanbus problem



lists.cdwrite@duinheks.nl wrote:

> Hallo,
>
> When I run cdrecord -scanbus as root I get:root@duinheks:~# cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 2.01.01a41 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C)
> 1995-2008 Jâ? rg Schilling
> cdrecord: Permission denied. Cannot open '/dev/hda'. Cannot open or use SCSI
> driver.
> cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are 
> root.
> cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
>
> What's happening here? My system is built from SlackWare 12.1 and
> /dev/hda is a normal IDE hard disk.

You need to run cdrecord with root privileges!

This can be done by calling it as root or by making it suid root.

You did not do that.......

Jörg

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