[paranoia] cdrom is mysteriously inaccessible

[Bill Davidsen]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 foofoo at ccs.neu.edu wrote:

> Hi! I've been using cdparanoia for a while now, and it's just a great app. Just
> now, though, I was trying to rip one of my CD's, and cdparanoia seems to be
> having problems with my drive; if you have any suggestions or ideas, I'd be
> really grateful.
> 
> I've just recently acquired an IDE Philips DVD burner (+RW-D01) and finally got
> it configured with ide-scsi support. It corresponds to scd0 now. I've added my
> primary user to the cdrom group, so I believe it should have no problem with
> /dev/cdrom. I noticed that cdda2wav had no problem. Also, if I run cdparanoia as
> root, there is no problem. When I run it as the primary user, I get the
> following error:

Do you have the right group on the device and does group have write? How
about the sgN device (I can't remember if paranoia uses that, cdrecord
does)?


-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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