Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:26:21 -0800 From: Oliver Iberien <oliver-forward@charter.net> To: "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: k3b incorrectly identifies scsi r/w drive as read-only -- how to change? Message-ID: <200603241226.21325.oliver-forward@charter.net> In-Reply-To: <d5eb95fc0603241212u49eec236ufacb4b9cf30a5937@mail.gmail.com> References: <200603241201.13230.oliver.iberien@charter.net> <d5eb95fc0603241212u49eec236ufacb4b9cf30a5937@mail.gmail.com>
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On Friday 24 March 2006 12:12, you wrote: > On 3/24/06, Oliver Iberien <oliver.iberien@charter.net> wrote: > > I've got my Plextor PX-W4012S SCSI R/W drive recognized by k3b by adding > > ALL ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/camcontrol devlist > > to sudoers and starting k3b with sudo. Unfortunately, k3b has the idea > > 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 of > > 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), but > /etc/devfs.conf (i think) has places where you can set the permission to > 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/<list>) 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
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