Re: Should both my IDE CD drives use ide-scsi?

[Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>]

Allow me to follow up with something more specific and less verbose:

I have two IDE CDs (CD/DVD in /dev/hdc and CD-R in /dev/hdd).

I had /dev/cdrom symlinked to /dev/hdc.  /dev/hdc is group "audio" and user "moseley" is part of that group -- I have permissions to read /dev/cdrom (/dev/hdc).  xmms works fine.  mplayer playing DVDs works, fine, too.

Now, on to CD-R in /dev/hdd.  I setup up hdd=ide-scsi.  /dev/scd* is set group "cdrom".  cdrecord is set guid "cdrom".  This allowed me to read and write to the CD-R drive.

Now, it would be nice to have access to both CD drives (in xcdroast).  So I added hdd=ide-scsi, and made /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0.  Now both CD drives show up as scsi drives.

That works fine, but of course I (user "moseley") can't access /dev/cdrom directly with xmms, since I'm not part of the "cdrom" group.

I can add myself to that group, but then I don't see the point of the set gid for cdrecord.  If I add myself to group "cdrom" then those don't need to be set guid.

So, what's the solution for things like xmms and mplayer that access /dev/cdrom directly.  Do they need to be set guid "cdrom", too?





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Bill Moseley


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