SuSEbox:/home/roger # file -Ls /dev/hdd
/dev/hdd: writable,
That's it. Not good.
Nick Rout wrote:
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:
