Re: [PLUG] cdrom mounting

[Art Clemons <artclemons@aol.com>]

Arthur S. Alexion:
> This is one of the first things that I tried, having learned a little 
> about fstab in setting up an external zip drive on another machine.  
> Doesn't work since there is something wrong with the ide-cd module.  
> Thanks, anyway.


I was really trying to answer how to allow users to mount the cdrom 
without having to change permissions in /dev, which can be a big 
security problem.  One point to consider with the real mounting problem 
you have and that's to ask if perhaps your kernel is configured to read 
cdroms as scsi devices, I know that my atap ide cdrw only works properly 
as an emulated scsi device if I want to write to the silly thing.  It 
once took me a few hours to figure out why a dvd couldn't be found for 
the same reason, the kernel didn't support ide cdroms.


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