| gabriel rosenkoetter on Thu, 13 Jun 2002 01:30:37 -0400 |
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 12:48:13AM -0400, Bill Jonas wrote: > On reflection, I guess it's not so bad. It just surprised me when I > first saw /dev/scd0 being owned by user bj. Well, it can both be really useful or a really terrible idea depending on how the machine's used. (If it has, say, a bunch of network-accessible CD-ROMs, you really don't want some junior admin's logging in on the console and leaving it xlocked to break everyone else's access.) > I think there's some other magic going on besides *dm, though, as it > worked when I logged in at the (physical and virtual) console on my > (test, but currently RH) machine here at home, which doesn't even have X > installed. Hrm. Well, walk through what login(1) calls then, and find it. :^> > This is very true. I should have realized this in light of my "FBSD > provides burncd for IDE and cdrecord for SCSI" statement. I guess this > is an itch that no one's felt the need to scratch yet because of the > emulation provided by Linux. "Hubris, impatience, and laziness." > Ought this to work as a plain old IDE controller if I just plug > devices into it? Yes. (You may want to make sure it's BIOS isn't set to do something crazy by default like mirroring primary to secondary; if so, it'll only present one "physical" disk to your OS, so you'd notice.) -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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