Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:35:49 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can't burn cds Message-ID: <DE7704AD7CB9AE759E477724@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> In-Reply-To: <20070726225901.GA12734@tcbug.org> References: <2C3AFA6026995677B921EC78@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <20070726225901.GA12734@tcbug.org>
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--==========42EFC03F76B70E7A5A20========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On July 26, 2007 5:59:01 PM -0500 Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> wrote: > > camcontrol isn't going to know anything about IDE devices, it only > knows about SCSI. > So why does it show the first cd, which is also ide? > It's hard to see without the propmpts, but are you trying to use > burncd as root? A normal user isn't going to have the neccessary > privs. to write a cd by default. > Yes. All the commands were typed as root. > cdcontrol is simply telling you it can't read the TOC of the cd in the > drive, presumably because there's no cd in it. There was a cd in the drive - a blank one I was trying to write to. > I haven't used > cdcontrol in ages, but it's possible it needs root (in the case that > you were using it as a normal user with a disk in the drive) All commands were typed as root. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ --==========42EFC03F76B70E7A5A20==========--
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