k3b and cdrw

[Derek Broughton]

Johann Spies wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 02:18:13PM +0300, OOzy Pal wrote:
>> my CDRW is in /media/cdrom and k3b is pointing to /dev/scd1 and unable
>> to erase CDRW.
> 
> There is nothing wrong with k3b pointing to /dev/scd1.  If k3b
> recognises the CDRW in your drive, then the device is correct.  Try
> running "sudo k3b".  It might be a permissions problem.
> 
> /media/cdrom is not tha actual device - just the mount point.

My guess is that there's no write access to /dev/sg*.  I posted a patch to
udev on launchpad, but I'm guessing it won't be in until Edgy.

I think this was it (in /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules):

KERNEL=="sg[0-9]", IMPORT{parent}=="ID_*", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*",
GROUP="cdrom"

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derek