[geeks] ide-scsi and cdparanoia

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Tue Nov 19 13:08:07 CST 2002


On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 07:34:28PM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 November 2002 6:24 am, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:11:42AM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > > Does Linux have a generic /dev/scsi device like IRIX does?  It
> > > almost sounds like you're having problems getting information from
> > > the controller/bus, instead of the CDRW specifically.
> >
> > I don't know.  
> 
> Yes indeed it does, and it is how CDRWs are written. You should have a 
> /dev/sg0 and write access to that to burn anything.

Err, yes, I have that device, but again, despite proper permissions,
only root can burn.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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