Re: can't access cd-rw after switch to ide-scsi

[Carel Fellinger <cfelling@iae.nl>]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:47:57AM -0500, Timothy H. Keitt wrote:
> I'm having an access permission problem with my cd-rw drive.  I switched 
> it to ide-scsi (added hdc=ide-scsi to boot parameters) and now I can 
> write to the drive with cdrecord, but only as root.  Similarly, I can 

Here the cdrom/writer is acces through /dev/sg*,
you'll have to change group/permissions to allow access.

> only rip tracks from the drive as root.  I can mount data cd's and read 

Here they are accessed through /dev/scd*,
and you probably changed group/permissions on /dev/hdc to allow access.

> them as a regular user (configured "user" in fstab).  Before I switched 
> to ide-scsi, I could rip cd's just fine as a regular user with group 

Then the cdrom/writer was acces through /dev/hdc,
and you probably changed group/permissions on /dev/hdc to allow access.

... 
> P.S. Hmmm... just noticed that all /dev/sg* devices have only root 
> permissions... should I chgrp them to "disk" and add group rw 
> permissions?  Create a "scsi" group?

change those that really correspond to cdrom drives to group cdrom,
and add g+rw permission to those only.

-- 
groetjes, carel