Hello everybody

If I open k3b, the dvd writer is not recognized.

I therefore changed the permissions of hdc which is the dvdrecorder.

linux:/dev # ls -l hdc
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 2004-10-02 10:38 hdc
linux:/dev # chmod a+xrw hdc
linux:/dev # ls -l hdc
brwxrwxrwx 1 root disk 22, 0 2004-10-02 10:38 hdc


This solves the problem for the time being. I can then write to a DVD, i.e. k3b recognizes the drive.

As soon as restart the computer though, I have to do the same thing again and the permissions are reset to brw-rw----.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks

JeTa

Check your /etc/fstab file, make sure everything in there is correct, specially the part about the dvd writer.

I do not what I am looking for in fstab. Below is my fstab file.
Does anybody know what I need to change?
I believe the entry for hdc is dvdrecorder.
Many Thanks

JeTa



/dev/hdb1 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=000,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda5 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=000,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdb5 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

As far as I can tell, you need to add yourself to the "disk" group in order to access the dvd drive. Try running the following as root (with your username substituted for "username"):

That didn't work.

linux:/home/jeta # gpasswd -a jens disk
gpasswd: Ungültige Option -- a
Versuche `gpasswd --help' oder `gpasswd --usage' für mehr Informationen.

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