From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 24 20:29:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D820616A433 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:29:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ryallsd@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD8D943D46 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:29:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ryallsd@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t10so563783wxc for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:29:10 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=SZrtNq/VxK2Sm8N7e7ZcY2IHEocSfjwgeZzTMjEa1zOZFtylvGsUFbnURiaE6zq/kQPbA3Jt/ISgTYhLDG/2Owihs8JCh+kwAaHDvHZuXaeNjskKf31HmU7IJtnKNnff8kKYVfiogpd+l5fZDFgrW4bA6gHWD7p/yULHQ1QOsWk= Received: by 10.70.48.2 with SMTP id v2mr1665541wxv; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:29:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.41.17 with HTTP; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:29:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:29:09 -0800 From: "Derrick Ryalls" To: "Oliver Iberien" In-Reply-To: <200603241226.21325.oliver-forward@charter.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200603241201.13230.oliver.iberien@charter.net> <200603241226.21325.oliver-forward@charter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: k3b incorrectly identifies scsi r/w drive as read-only -- how to change? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:29:11 -0000 On 3/24/06, Oliver Iberien wrote: > > On Friday 24 March 2006 12:12, you wrote: > > On 3/24/06, Oliver Iberien wrote: > > > I've got my Plextor PX-W4012S SCSI R/W drive recognized by k3b by > adding > > > ALL ALL =3D NOPASSWD: /sbin/camcontrol devlist > > > to sudoers and starting k3b with sudo. Unfortunately, k3b has the ide= a > > > that > > > this is read-only. In "Setup Devices" there is no way to remove a > device > > > from > > > the "readonly" heading and place it under "writer drives," and none o= f > > > the options except for the cdrao editor are editable. Attempting to > > > change the driver crashes the program. > > > > > > k3b must be reading this from somewhere, but where? The drive is r,w > is > > > fstab. > > > > I don't have access to my laptop (where I recently dealt with this), bu= t > > /etc/devfs.conf (i think) has places where you can set the permission t= o > > devices. I believe I did 0666 (read/write to all) for acd0, cdrom0, > pass0, > > and perhaps 1 other. After that (and manually setting perms to > > /dev/) I was able to use k3b without being root. > > I had done that. I can access the drive, but it is still not being > correctly > recognized as a writer. > > Oliver > What happens when you run k3b as root (just to test) Also, what are the permissions on (assuming the writer is the first cd device) /dev/cd0 /dev/acd0 /dev/pass0