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Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning!



On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 08:07:38AM -0800, James Vahn wrote:
> Pigeon wrote:
> > There has been a poisonous ding-dong between Joerg Schilling and the
> > Linux kernel developers for years - the bitching about the driver in
> > the Readme file is only a wee bit of it - and the flaky CD burning
> > under 2.6 seems to be a result of this. Which is dead and chewed.
> 
> Remove the suid bit on cdrecord and run it behind sudo instead. You will
> get back the functionality that Joerg has given us over the years.
> 
> For example:  sudo k3b
> Very important - run visudo as root to give that user NOPASSWD on k3b:
> 
>   pigeon  ALL = PASSWD: ALL, NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/k3b
> 
> Test it from a command line, using "sudo -K" in between attempts. You can
> append ", /usr/bin/cdrecord" to the above line to permit command line use
> of "sudo cdrecord some.iso".
> 
> I'm using a vanilla kernel-2.6.10 and have CDR_DEVICE=ATAPI:0,0,0 defined
> in /etc/default/cdrecord. The K3B icon has been modified to use "sudo k3b"
> under the icon properties>application>command. 

I thought this was only the case with kernels from 2.6.[78] on? I've
deliberately stayed with 2.6.6 in order to avoid it. I'll give it a
shot next time I have a CD to burn, but AFAICT it's a solution to a
different problem.

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