[geeks] ide-scsi and cdparanoia

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> brwxrwxrwx    1 root     disk       3,   0 Jul  5  2000 /dev/hda

Your CD drive is your primary master?

> If sheds any light, CD playing programs work fine without being root.

Well, I think that just implies that read-permissions are okay.

> Oh, and when non-root, the specific cdparanoia error is:
>         Testing /dev/sr0 for SCSI interface
>                 No generic SCSI device found to match CDROM device /dev/sr0
>
> I don't get that when running it as root, of course.

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.

If you're -really- in a bind, maybe you can convince it to write data to
a fifo (instead of a regular file) and plug that fifo into a cat-like
program running as a non-privileged user.

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