[ale] 'cdrecord' permission issue

[Robert Heaven]

Try: "dev=0,0,0"


John Mills wrote:

>ALErs -
>
>I have an ATAPI CD-RW drive and have no problem recording from MsWin, nor 
>from RH-7.3 Linux with 'cdrdao' (to copy audio CDs), but I am having
>problems with 'cdrecord'. Attempting to blank a CD-RW, I do:
>
> [root at otter root]# cdrecord dev=/dev/scd0:0,0 blank=fast
> Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J?rg Schilling
> scsidev: '/dev/scd0:0,0'
> devname: '/dev/scd0'
> scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
> cdrecord: Read-only file system. Cannot open '/dev/scd0'. Cannot open 
> SCSI driver.
> cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are 
> root.
>
>Obediently I recheck and there it is:
> [root at otter root]# cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J?rg Schilling
> Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
> scsibus0:
>        0,0,0     0) 'LG      ' 'CD-RW CED-8080B ' '1.06' Removable CD-ROM
> ...
>
>Checking permissions:
> [root at otter root]# ls -l /dev/scd0
> brw-------    1 jmills   disk      11,   0 Apr 11  2002 /dev/scd0
>
>How should I address this device for 'cdrecord', or what permissions
>should I change?
>
>TIA.
> - John Mills
>   john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu
>
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