| gabriel rosenkoetter on Tue, 11 Jun 2002 07:13:43 -0400 |
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On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:54:06PM -0400, Arthur S. Alexion wrote: > Now I am more confused. I raised this question this morning. At that > time Konqueror did not list a file named cdrom in /dev/. Now I ran the > above link command and got the response that the file cdrom already > exists. I go back to Konqueror and there it is. It is linked to hdb. > So I go to hdb. Now Konqueror represents most of the block devices as > 3 blocks with a lock icon. The owner is root and the group is disk. > permissions for user and group are read and write. Well hdb is the > three blocks without the lock (if that means anything relevant). Also, > the owner is not root, but arthur (my username), and the read and right > permissions are for user only, not the disk group. Um... what does file say? ls -l? > Should I try giving the group read and write permissions? This is the > family computer. There are going to be other users. Should I also > change ownership to root? Probably not. You really shouldn't go changing the permissions of files in /dev unless you know what you're doing. In any case, take Will's advice, do a modprobe ide-cd (as root). If that behaves at all curiously, letting us see the output of lsmod would be helpful. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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