I don't know exactly how your drives are set up, but I'm guessing you
have three IDE devices in your computer, your cd-rom being /dev/hdc.
/dev/hdc is the actual device, while /dev/cdrom is there to make things
easier for you, it's supposed to eliminate confusion as to which device
is your cd-rom.
Chris Martin wrote:
>
> Does anyone know why I have this? (likely a silly question):
>
> RomperRoom:/dev # ls -l cdrom
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Dec 5 11:03 cdrom -> hdc
>
> I was having trouble accessing my CDRom as non-root, and it turns out that it
> was because the permissions on /dev/hdc weren't set correctly even though those
> for /dev/cdrom were.
>
> thanks,
>
> chris
>
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