On Wednesday 14 June 2006 16:02, Nick Daniels wrote:
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 14:53, Richard Lewis wrote:
Do you mean for a particular DVD? Or for the writer itself?
If its the drive, then I'm not so sure. Check the permissions for the device file itself (/dev/dvdrecorder) and also for the trail of symlinks which lead back to the real device (/dev/hdc). Does Suse use special hardware groups? Do you have to be a member of cdrom? You could also check dmesg to make sure the device has started and been mounted properly.
Hi Richard
I loaded the other operating system to check the DVD recorder, which functions O.K, in that operating system. It was working perfectly yesterday, i.e upon insertion of DVD the DVD would request to be opened in new window, today the same or any data DVD/CD gives me (and root) "permission denied." Yet audio CD's and Video DVD;s play O.K.
OK, I'll soon be out of my depth (hardware has never appealed to me much, I wish computers didn't have it...)
I notice in your fstab options for the drive you don't have 'user'. This may be because all the other options you have (most of which I don't understand) do the same thing.
Have you tried mounting a disc manually?
In case you're not sure about this:
Insert the disc and cancel KDE's automount message.
type: $ mount /dev/hdc
and if you get no output, then hopefully its worked.
You can check with $ ls /media/dvdrecorder
and with $ mount
and checking to see if its listed there (it should have user=... in it).
(unmount with $ umount /dev/hdc)
If you get permission denied when you mount it like this as well, then someone else will have to help. (Possibly try asking a SUSE list?)
HTH, Richard