On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 13:54 +1200, Roger Searle wrote: > I should have googled in the first place before trying to see what's > going on with the permissions, and now that I've found the command can > see that I get better info this way too. I saw that the permissions on > /media/cdrecorder (the mount point?) is everyone has rwx. And on the > device is only root had rw, the group and others had nothing. So using > chmod I gave group and others rw permission. Yet still the device > appears to be dead... > > SuSEbox:/home/roger # ls -l /media/ > total 12 > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2005-05-30 06:29 . > drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 2005-06-05 08:27 .. > drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2005-06-06 05:17 cdrecorder > drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2005-06-06 05:17 floppy > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-05-19 05:48 > usb-storage-odd-Sony-SonyDSC:0:0:0p1 > > SuSEbox:/home/roger # ls -l /dev/hdd > brw------- 1 roger disk 22, 64 2004-04-07 01:27 /dev/hdd > > SuSEbox:/home/roger # chmod a+rw /dev/hdd > > SuSEbox:/home/roger # ls -l /dev/hdd > brw-rw-rw- 1 roger disk 22, 64 2004-04-07 01:27 /dev/hdd > > SuSEbox:/home/roger # cd /media/cdrecorder/ > SuSEbox:/media/cdrecorder # ls > /bin/ls: .: No medium found > > The interesting thing that's come from this exercise is that I now > realise that I'm preferring to use the command line to do this, so in > that regard I'm making progress. Now if only I could get the drive > working...
Are you sure there is a cd in there that has a file system that is understood by your linux system? I say that because if you wrote it under windows it may have a udf (packet) filesystem. try this as root: sf root # file -Ls /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'WIN98 SE ' (bootable) OK so the file command tells me that the cd in the device /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 is ISO 9660, is bootable and is labelled Windows 98 SE (OK so I am caught out!) You may need to substitute your own cdrom device for /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 > > Roger > > > > Nick Rout wrote: >
