still can't access cdrom

rmg57@telus.net rmg57
Mon May 17 11:58:41 PDT 2004


Yosua wrote:
> 
> these are what i know
> 
> i use one ide harddisk and one cdrom
> btw, how can i know i use devfs?
> 
> i use Samsung cdrom, it used no special drivers. i had ever mounted and 
> used
> it to read data(not video) from that cdrom.
> 
> there is /dev/cdrom that link to /dev/hdd and fstab file contain the 
> following
> /dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       iso9660     noauto,owner,ro           
> 0   0
> 
> here is the output of "ls -l /dev/cdrom"
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            8 Dec 10 07:20 /dev/cdrom -> 
> /dev/hdd
> 
> 
> also how can i mount cdrom from user mode?
> 
> 
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> kof
> 
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You need to change the line in /etc/fstab that reads as follows:

/dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom   iso9660   noauto,owner,ro  0 0

to this:

/dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  iso9660  noauto,users,ro  0 0

note that "owner" was changed to "users".

HTH
-- 
All the best!

RMG



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